Ponderosa Pine, NM population, income and ZIP codes

Ponderosa Pine CDP is a small town in New Mexico, with 1,091 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #151 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 71% of them. The median age here is 56.3 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 Ponderosa Pine CDP earn a median of $83,864 a year, 6.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 55% above 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 10.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Ponderosa Pine CDP is valued at $295,500, 2.6% below the national figure and 56% above the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 95.2% 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. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 56.3 puts Ponderosa Pine 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.

The Census withheld gross rent for Ponderosa Pine 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.