
New Mexico · FIPS 35047
San Miguel ZIP codes — San Miguel County, New Mexico
Quick answer
San Miguel County is home to 27,036 residents with a median household income of $47,400 and a median home value of $177,600. 73.3% of households own their home and 22% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a San Miguel ZIP code? 17 ZIP code areas fall inside San Miguel County, New Mexico, listed in full below.
- Population
- 27,036San Miguel County residents
- Median household income
- $47,400Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $177,600Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $774Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 46.8 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 73.3%Owner-occupied households
San Miguel County, NM in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
San Miguel County is a small city in New Mexico, with 27,036 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 46.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.
Households in San Miguel County earn a median of $47,400 a year, 39.6% below the national figure of $78,538. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 22% 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 San Miguel County is valued at $177,600, 41.5% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $774 a month, 45% below the national figure, or roughly $9,288 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.6% 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 3.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 73.3% 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.
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.
ZIP codes in San Miguel County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in San Miguel County.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in New Mexico
Largest Census places in New Mexico by population.
- Albuquerque city 562,488
- Las Cruces city 112,612
- Rio Rancho city 106,533
- Santa Fe city 88,224
- Roswell city 47,823
- Farmington city 46,339
- Hobbs city 39,887
- Clovis city 38,153
- South Valley CDP 36,605
- Carlsbad city 31,813
- Alamogordo city 31,063
- Gallup city 21,333
Nearby counties
Other counties in New Mexico.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of San Miguel County?
- San Miguel County has 27,036 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in San Miguel County?
- Median household income in San Miguel County is $47,400 a year, 39.6% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in San Miguel County?
- Median gross rent is $774 a month and the median home value is $177,600, so rent absorbs about 19.6% of median household income.
- Is San Miguel County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 3.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so San Miguel County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this San Miguel County data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.