Tatum, NM population, income and ZIP codes

Tatum town is a very small community in New Mexico, with 736 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #194 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 63% of them. The median age here is 34.3 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 Tatum town earn a median of not published a year. 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 15.7% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Tatum town is valued at $107,400, 64.6% below the national figure and 43% below the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $943 a month, 32.9% below the national figure, or roughly $11,316 across a full year. 76.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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 736 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Tatum town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Tatum town 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.