Lake Arthur, NM population, income and ZIP codes

Lake Arthur town is a very small community in New Mexico, with 438 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #272 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 48% of them. The median age here is 40.5 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 Lake Arthur town earn a median of $81,875 a year, 4.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 52% 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 12.1% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Lake Arthur town is valued at $113,900, 62.5% below the national figure and 40% below the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $728 a month, 48.2% below the national figure, or roughly $8,736 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 10.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.4×, 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. 73.8% 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.

With 438 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Lake Arthur town against its county rather than against national figures.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.