Yah-ta-hey, NM population, income and ZIP codes

Yah-ta-hey CDP is a very small community in New Mexico, with 480 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #258 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 51% of them. The median age here is 39.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Yah-ta-hey CDP earn a median of $42,903 a year, 45.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 21% below 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 28.3% 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 Yah-ta-hey CDP is valued at $21,400, 92.9% below the national figure and 89% below the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 0.5×, 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. 96.2% 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.

With 480 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Yah-ta-hey CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Yah-ta-hey 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.