La Jara, NM population, income and ZIP codes

La Jara CDP is a very small community in New Mexico, with 163 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #374 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 29% of them. The median age here is 71.2 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 La Jara CDP earn a median of not published a year. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 60.7% 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 La Jara CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 72.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 71.2 puts La Jara 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 163 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare La Jara CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, home value, gross rent for La Jara 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.