
New Mexico · Census place 38540
La Madera (Sandoval Co.), NM population, income and ZIP codes
Quick answer
The population of the city of La Madera (Sandoval Co.), New Mexico (La Madera (Sandoval Co.), NM — Census place “La Madera CDP (Sandoval County)”) is 459 residents, ranking #263 of 527 places in New Mexico. Median household income is $157,813, the median home is worth $765,000 and median gross rent runs — a month. Looking for the La Madera (Sandoval Co.) New Mexico ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve La Madera (Sandoval Co.), NM: 87047.
- Population
- 459La Madera CDP (Sandoval County) residents
- Median household income
- $157,813Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $765,000Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- —Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 63.3 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 100%Owner-occupied households
La Madera (Sandoval Co.) ZIP codes (New Mexico)
Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps La Madera (Sandoval Co.).
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What the numbers mean in La Madera CDP (Sandoval County)
Housing cost measured against local earnings.
The median home costs 4.8× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 19.4% of residents and 100% of households own their home.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
La Madera CDP (Sandoval County), NM in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
La Madera CDP (Sandoval County) is a very small community in New Mexico, with 459 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #263 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 50% of them. The median age here is 63.3 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 Madera CDP (Sandoval County) earn a median of $157,813 a year, 100.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 192% 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 19.4% 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 Madera CDP (Sandoval County) is valued at $765,000, 152.1% above the national figure and 303% above the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder 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. 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 63.3 puts La Madera CDP (Sandoval County) 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. 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.
The Census withheld gross rent for La Madera CDP (Sandoval 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.
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of La Madera CDP (Sandoval County)?
- La Madera CDP (Sandoval County) has 459 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #263 of 527 in New Mexico.
- What is the median household income in La Madera CDP (Sandoval County)?
- Median household income in La Madera CDP (Sandoval County) is $157,813 a year, 100.9% above the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in La Madera CDP (Sandoval County)?
- Median gross rent is not published a month and the median home value is $765,000.
- Is La Madera CDP (Sandoval County) affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 4.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so La Madera CDP (Sandoval County) is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market.
- How current is this La Madera CDP (Sandoval County) 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.