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Place dossier plate
SheetNM-JEMEZ-SPRINGS-NM · Jemez Springs, NM 318 pop · income 76th pct
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 Jemez Springs
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Jemez Springs on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
East Hodge · lowest
26,146
East Hodge · lowest
26,146 median HH income
26.8% of the leader · rank #1
Jemez Springs · this city
97,500
Jemez Springs · this city
97,500 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #2
Aullville · highest
97,500
Aullville · highest
97,500 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #3
Redlands · near
97,500
Redlands · near
97,500 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Virgil · near
97,500
Virgil · near
97,500 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Gilmore · near
97,500
Gilmore · near
97,500 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Vienna · near
97,500
Vienna · near
97,500 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Jemez Springs on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 318.
Nationally, Jemez Springs sits in the 76th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
76th
percentile, household income
62nd
percentile, home value
39th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Jemez Springs, NM
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 318 residents in Jemez Springs, a small town within New Mexico. Median household income here is $97,500 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.4%. Home values in Jemez Springs run a median of $285,300, and the median resident age is 56.4 years. Educational attainment runs 43.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 51.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 52.1°F with 15.2 inches of precipitation per year and 22.8 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in New Mexico run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts New Mexico at 92.2 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,129 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $167 across New Mexico, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Jemez Springs'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 housing and income to work and mobility to climate and hazard context to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Jemez Springs, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Jemez Springs?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Jemez Springs?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 57.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What physical conditions frame life in Jemez Springs?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 52.1°F, with 15.2 inches of precipitation and 22.8 inches of annual snowfall. 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.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Jemez Springs?
Within New Mexico, the closest population matches are Casa Colorada (320 residents); Roy (321 residents, $40,227 income); North San Ysidro (323 residents, $94,000 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Chickaloon, AK (318 residents); Royal Lakes, IL (318 residents); Table Grove, IL (318 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.
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.
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.
Population change
Is Jemez Springs growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.5% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+1.5%
2025 estimate
205
2020 estimate
202
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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.
Bachelor's+ share B+
43.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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.
Household income B+
$97,500
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Jemez Springs profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 78/100 (B+) · 43.2%
Cost of living: 77/100 (B+) · 92.2 index
Household income: 76/100 (B+) · $97,500
Poverty rate: 76/100 (B+) · 3.4%
How does Jemez Springs compare to other US cities?
Here's how Jemez Springs stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income76% higher than other cities
Home value62% pricier than other cities
Median rent39% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Jemez Springs 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 Jemez Springs near the bottom of New Mexico's cities
Among the 409 New Mexico cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Jemez Springs ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Jemez Springs only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#44 of 324
86th percentile in New Mexico
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 409
0th percentile in New Mexico
Median Home Value
#61 of 324
81st percentile in New Mexico
Poverty Rate
#292 of 408
28th percentile in New Mexico
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#60 of 409
85th 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
76th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Jemez Springs's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$285,30038th percentilemore affordable than 38% 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
Jemez Springs's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,284 of 15,516
More affordable than 60% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,363 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.9×, Jemez Springs sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,284 of 15,516 and #5,363 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$97,500Jemez Springs, NM median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Jemez Springs, 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 Jemez Springs, NM.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)43.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
318
Median Income
$97,500
Median Home Value
$285,300
Median Age
56.4
Poverty Rate
3.4%
Labor force participation
51.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
43.2%
Climate
Avg Temperature
52.1°F
Annual Precipitation
15.2"
Annual Snowfall
22.8"
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Jemez Springs's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
202 residents
2021
204 residents
2022
201 residents
2023
203 residents
2024
203 residents
2025
205 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
57.2%
Carpool
3.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
39.6%
Based on 159 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 Jemez Springs. 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 Jemez Springs 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 Jemez Springs sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Jemez Springs 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.