Sunlit Hills, NM population, income and ZIP codes

Sunlit Hills CDP is a very small community in New Mexico, with 888 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #168 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 68% of them. The median age here is 51.7 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 Sunlit Hills CDP earn a median of $146,750 a year, 86.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 172% 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 12.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Sunlit Hills CDP is valued at $869,400, 186.6% above the national figure and 358% above the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,455 a month, 3.5% above the national figure, or roughly $17,460 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 11.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 84.5% 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 51.7 puts Sunlit Hills 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 888 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Sunlit Hills 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.