White Sands, NM population, income and ZIP codes

White Sands CDP is a small town in New Mexico, with 1,577 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #114 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 78% of them. The median age here is 21.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 White Sands CDP earn a median of $87,059 a year, 10.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 61% above 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 1.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in White Sands CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $1,288 a month, 8.4% below the national figure, or roughly $15,456 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 0% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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 21.7 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

The Census withheld home value for White Sands 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.