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SheetNM-FARMINGTON-NM · Farmington, NM 46,339 pop · income 41st pct · 36 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Farmington
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Farmington on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Huntington · lowest
43,146
Huntington · lowest
43,146 median HH income
18.0% of the leader · rank #1
Warren · near
63,741
Warren · near
63,741 median HH income
26.6% of the leader · rank #2
Farmington · this city
63,745
Farmington · this city
63,745 median HH income
26.6% of the leader · rank #3
Kellyton · near
63,750
Kellyton · near
63,750 median HH income
26.7% of the leader · rank #4
Golovin · near
63,750
Golovin · near
63,750 median HH income
26.7% of the leader · rank #5
Peeples Valley · near
63,750
Peeples Valley · near
63,750 median HH income
26.7% of the leader · rank #6
Potomac · highest
239,205
Potomac · highest
239,205 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Farmington on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 46,339.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Farmington - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Farmington lands in the 41st percentile for household income and the 12th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
41st
percentile, household income
50th
percentile, home value
39th
percentile, median rent
12th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Farmington, NM
46,339 people live in Farmington, New Mexico - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $63,745 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 12.9%. Farmington's housing stock carries a median value of $225,400, and the median resident age is 37.0 years. About 22.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 53.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 43 residential building permits were authorized in Farmington (Construction Slowdown), down 26% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Farmington's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 3410.6 crimes per 100,000 residents, above the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 53.2°F with 7.8 inches of precipitation per year.
Living costs in New Mexico run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, New Mexico scores 92.2 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,129 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $167 across New Mexico, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 17.0 minutes, with 86.4% driving alone and 5.0% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 58.9 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Farmington's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from schools and households to reported crime to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to housing and income to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Farmington, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Farmington?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 20 public schools within the city match. 22.8% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Farmington?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3410.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 50% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
What can 36 Census tracts reveal inside Farmington?
PlainCities matches 36 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Farmington?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within New Mexico, the closest population matches are Roswell (47,823 residents, $50,294 income); Hobbs (39,887 residents, $65,691 income); Clovis (38,153 residents, $54,029 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Whitney, NV (46,268 residents); Salina, KS (46,432 residents); Potomac, MD (46,230 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Farmington?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 12.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.5×
Home value
$225,400
Household income
$63,745
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What physical conditions frame life in Farmington?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 53.2°F, with 7.8 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for New Mexico is 58.9 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
58.9
Annual precipitation
7.8 in
Mean temperature
53.2°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the journey to work look like in Farmington?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 86.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.0 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Drive alone
86.4%
Work from home
5.0%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 18,164 workers age 16+.
Is Farmington growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -446 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 43 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
2020 estimate
46,501
2025 estimate
46,055
Period change
-1.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 12.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.2 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, New Mexico average
F
City profile score · Farmington, NM
37/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living B+
92.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share D
22.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$63,745
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
12.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
951 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Farmington profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 77/100 (B+) · 92.2 index
Bachelor's+ share: 42/100 (D) · 22.8%
Household income: 40/100 (D) · $63,745
Poverty rate: 28/100 (F) · 12.9%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 951 /100k
Where Farmington sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Farmington's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Farmington highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Farmington, NM (this city): home $225,400, crime 3,411/100k
Salina, KS : home $164,500, crime 2,968/100k
Huntington, WV : home $118,800, crime 4,403/100k
Attleboro, MA : home $409,100, crime 1,347/100k
Olive Branch, MS : home $269,900, crime 1,558/100k
Roswell, NM : home $139,200, crime 3,357/100k
Hobbs, NM : home $180,700, crime 4,542/100k
Carlsbad, NM : home $187,900, crime 3,316/100k
Alamogordo, NM : home $163,600, crime 3,181/100k
How does Farmington compare to other US cities?
Where Farmington sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income41% higher than other cities
Home value50% pricier than other cities
Median rent39% pricier than other cities
Safety12% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at New Mexico, Farmington ranks #33 of 42 New Mexico cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Farmington against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to New Mexico only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
New Mexico-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Farmington near the bottom of New Mexico's cities
Among the 409 New Mexico cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Farmington ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Farmington only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#129 of 324
60th percentile in New Mexico
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 409
0th percentile in New Mexico
Median Home Value
#116 of 324
64th percentile in New Mexico
Poverty Rate
#197 of 408
51st percentile in New Mexico
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#148 of 409
64th percentile in New Mexico
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within New Mexico only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
41st percentile nationally for median household income · 12th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Farmington's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Farmington's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Farmington's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$225,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 50% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Farmington's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,121 of 15,516
More affordable than 41% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,531 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.5×, Farmington sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,121 of 15,516 and #1,531 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$63,745Farmington, NM median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Farmington, NM median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Farmington, NM.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)22.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)12.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
46,339
Median Income
$63,745
Median Home Value
$225,400
Median Age
37.0
Poverty Rate
12.9%
Labor force participation
53.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
22.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3410.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
951.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2459.4
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
53.2°F
Annual Precipitation
7.8"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
20
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Farmington's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
46,501 residents
2021
46,351 residents
2022
46,133 residents
2023
46,248 residents
2024
46,154 residents
2025
46,055 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
43
housing units authorized
Single-Family
35
detached homes
Multifamily
8
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
58
43
15
$10.0M
2020
59
51
8
$10.8M
2021
49
49
0
$11.4M
2022
85
80
5
$16.5M
2023
64
64
0
$10.6M
2024
43
35
8
$9.1M
Permit volume decreased 26% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.0 minutes
Drive Alone
86.4%
Carpool
5.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.8%
Work from Home
5.0%
Other
0.6%
Based on 18,164 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
New Mexico statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $167
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across New Mexico at $167 (electricity about $85 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are New Mexico statewide averages, not a meter reading for Farmington. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
New Mexico's BEA cost-of-living index is 92.2 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Farmington is $1,129/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to New Mexico statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 58.9 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a New Mexico statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Farmington sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Farmington compares to similar-size New Mexico cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.