Happy Valley, NM population, income and ZIP codes

Happy Valley CDP is a very small community in New Mexico, with 616 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #220 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 58% of them. The median age here is 54 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Happy Valley CDP earn a median of not published a year. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 28.2% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Happy Valley CDP is valued at $144,400, 52.4% below the national figure and 24% below the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,153 a month, 18% below the national figure, or roughly $13,836 across a full year. 86.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 54 puts Happy Valley CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 616 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Happy Valley CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Happy Valley CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.