Las Tusas, NM population, income and ZIP codes

Las Tusas CDP is a very small community in New Mexico, with 716 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #201 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 61% of them. The median age here is 72.1 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 Las Tusas CDP earn a median of $56,109 a year, 28.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 4% above the $54,029 median for the 153 New Mexico cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 55.4% 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 Las Tusas CDP is valued at $140,100, 53.8% below the national figure and 26% below the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.5×, 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. 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 72.1 puts Las Tusas 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 716 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Las Tusas CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Las Tusas 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.