Valencia (Valencia Co.), NM population, income and ZIP codes

Valencia CDP (Valencia County) is a small town in New Mexico, with 2,219 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #81 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 84% of them. The median age here is 34.5 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 Valencia CDP (Valencia County) earn a median of $70,521 a year, 10.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 31% 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 24% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Valencia CDP (Valencia County) is valued at $242,400, 20.1% below the national figure and 28% above the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $676 a month, 51.9% below the national figure, or roughly $8,112 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 11.5% 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 3.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 90.4% 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.

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.