Placitas (Doña Ana Co.), NM population, income and ZIP codes

Placitas CDP (Doña Ana County) is a very small community in New Mexico, with 473 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #260 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 50% of them. The median age here is 19.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Placitas CDP (Doña Ana County) earn a median of $14,907 a year, 81% below the national figure of $78,538 and 72% below the $54,029 median for the 153 New Mexico cities we cover. 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 100% 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 Placitas CDP (Doña Ana County) is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $462 a month, 67.1% below the national figure, or roughly $5,544 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 37.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. 15.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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 19.3 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 473 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Placitas CDP (Doña Ana County) against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Placitas CDP (Doña Ana 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.