La Cueva (Santa Fe Co.), NM population, income and ZIP codes

La Cueva CDP (Santa Fe County) is a very small community in New Mexico, with 724 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #199 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 62% of them. The median age here is 43.1 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 La Cueva CDP (Santa Fe County) earn a median of $105,385 a year, 34.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 95% above the $54,029 median for the 153 New Mexico cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 13.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in La Cueva CDP (Santa Fe County) is valued at $371,100, 22.3% above the national figure and 95% above the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 100% 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. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not. With 724 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare La Cueva CDP (Santa Fe County) against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for La Cueva CDP (Santa Fe County) 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.