ZIP code 88001

ZIP 88001 is a small city in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, with 38,972 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #18 of 372 ranked by population — larger than 95% of them. The median age here is 27.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 ZIP 88001 earn a median of $32,978 a year, 58% below the national figure of $78,538. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 38% 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 ZIP 88001 is valued at $158,300, 47.8% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $797 a month, 43.3% below the national figure, or roughly $9,564 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 29% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 40.9% 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 27.4 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.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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 88001 is tabulated inside Doña Ana County, New Mexico, one of 23 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 372 across New Mexico. This is a dense urban ZIP, where a single postal boundary can hold more residents than an entire rural county. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 88001 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 88001 reports a median household income of $32,978, 40% below the $55,320 county median, and 38% below the $53,479 typical NM ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $158,300, close to the county figure and 11% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $797 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

New Mexico charges 4.875% statewide, and local governments overlapping 88001 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 88001 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.