San Rafael, NM population, income and ZIP codes

San Rafael CDP is a very small community in New Mexico, with 620 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #219 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 58% of them. The median age here is 59.7 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 San Rafael CDP earn a median of $65,966 a year, 16% below the national figure of $78,538 and 22% 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 12.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in San Rafael CDP is valued at $120,300, 60.3% below the national figure and 37% below the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.8×, 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. 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 59.7 puts San Rafael 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 620 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare San Rafael CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for San Rafael 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.