State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in New Mexico
- Median monthly gross rent
- $1,067 ± $11 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 50.2% ± 0.9 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 26.2% ± 0.8 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $42,680. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | $1,067 ± $11 | 50.2% | 26.2% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in New Mexico
- Bernalillo County$1,144 median gross rent · 52% rent burden
- Chaves County$867 median gross rent · 47.8% rent burden
- Cibola County$759 median gross rent · 54.6% rent burden
- Colfax County$729 median gross rent · 46.5% rent burden
- Curry County$1,024 median gross rent · 48.2% rent burden
- Doña Ana County$934 median gross rent · 54.4% rent burden
- Eddy County$1,245 median gross rent · 36.4% rent burden
- Grant County$825 median gross rent · 44.9% rent burden
- Hidalgo County$814 median gross rent · 57.4% rent burden
- Lea County$1,101 median gross rent · 48.4% rent burden
- Lincoln County$956 median gross rent · 51.8% rent burden
- Los Alamos County$1,375 median gross rent · 28.8% rent burden
- Luna County$650 median gross rent · 50% rent burden
- McKinley County$859 median gross rent · 43.6% rent burden
- Otero County$962 median gross rent · 46.8% rent burden
- Quay County$712 median gross rent · 56% rent burden
- Rio Arriba County$740 median gross rent · 34.4% rent burden
- Roosevelt County$898 median gross rent · 45.8% rent burden
- San Juan County$956 median gross rent · 42.4% rent burden
- San Miguel County$823 median gross rent · 56.3% rent burden
- Sandoval County$1,427 median gross rent · 50% rent burden
- Santa Fe County$1,389 median gross rent · 51% rent burden
- Sierra County$729 median gross rent · 51% rent burden
- Socorro County$691 median gross rent · 62.7% rent burden
- Taos County$1,034 median gross rent · 56.5% rent burden
- Torrance County$872 median gross rent · 34.1% rent burden
- Valencia County$1,015 median gross rent · 56.2% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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