Rio Lucio, NM population, income and ZIP codes

Rio Lucio CDP is a very small community in New Mexico, with 625 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #218 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 58% of them. The median age here is 39 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Rio Lucio CDP earn a median of $43,750 a year, 44.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 19% below 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 7.2% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Rio Lucio CDP is valued at $184,200, 39.3% below the national figure and 3% below the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,107 a month, 21.3% below the national figure, or roughly $13,284 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 90.8% 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. 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 625 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Rio Lucio CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.