What is the population of Jal city?

Jal city has 2,069 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #91 of 527 in New Mexico.

What is the median household income in Jal city?

Median household income in Jal city is $60,703 a year, 22.7% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Jal city?

Median gross rent is $1,155 a month and the median home value is $105,400, so rent absorbs about 22.8% of median household income.

Is Jal city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 1.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Jal city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Jal, NM population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Jal, New Mexico (Jal, NM — Census place “Jal city”) is 2,069 residents, ranking #91 of 527 places in New Mexico. Median household income is $60,703, the median home is worth $105,400 and median gross rent runs $1,155 a month. Looking for the Jal New Mexico ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Jal, NM: 88252.

Population: 2,069Jal city residents
Median household income: $60,703Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $105,400Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,155Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 43.7 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 70.5%Owner-occupied households

Jal ZIP codes (New Mexico)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Jal.

The Jal NM ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

88252

What the numbers mean in Jal city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Jal city median would spend about 22.8% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 1.7× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 21.8% of residents and 70.5% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Jal city, NM in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Jal city is a small town in New Mexico, with 2,069 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #91 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 43.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Jal city earn a median of $60,703 a year, 22.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 12% above the $54,029 median for the 153 New Mexico cities we cover. 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 21.8% 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 Jal city is valued at $105,400, 65.3% below the national figure and 45% below the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,155 a month, 17.9% below the national figure, or roughly $13,860 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 70.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Jal city?: Jal city has 2,069 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #91 of 527 in New Mexico.
What is the median household income in Jal city?: Median household income in Jal city is $60,703 a year, 22.7% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Jal city?: Median gross rent is $1,155 a month and the median home value is $105,400, so rent absorbs about 22.8% of median household income.
Is Jal city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Jal city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Jal city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.