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Place dossier plate
SheetNM-LORDSBURG-NM · Lordsburg, NM 2,139 pop · income 4th pct · 2 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 Lordsburg
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lordsburg on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
La Fermina co… · lowest
18,906
La Fermina co… · lowest
18,906 median HH income
20.8% of the leader · rank #1
Dorris · near
33,879
Dorris · near
33,879 median HH income
37.3% of the leader · rank #2
Glenwood · near
33,889
Glenwood · near
33,889 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #3
Lordsburg · this city
33,899
Lordsburg · this city
33,899 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #4
Wanette · near
33,906
Wanette · near
33,906 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #5
Toast · near
33,914
Toast · near
33,914 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #6
San Ysidro · highest
90,724
San Ysidro · highest
90,724 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 Lordsburg 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: 2,139.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lordsburg - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Lordsburg places in the 4th percentile for household income and the 58th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
4th
percentile, household income
5th
percentile, home value
39th
percentile, median rent
58th
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: Lordsburg, NM
2,139 people live in Lordsburg, New Mexico - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Lordsburg report a median income of $33,899 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 27.0%. Typical homes in Lordsburg are valued around $86,100, and the median resident age is 37.5 years. Educational attainment runs 10.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 41.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Lordsburg reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1155.3 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 61.3°F with 11.3 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,129 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $167 across New Mexico, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Lordsburg report an average commute of 20.4 minutes, with 83.6% driving alone and 3.1% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 58.9 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Lordsburg'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 climate and hazard context to schools and households to population change to work and mobility to within-city variation to reported crime to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lordsburg, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Lordsburg?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 27.0%, 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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 61.3°F, with 11.3 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.
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.
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 Lordsburg?
Within New Mexico, the closest population matches are Navajo (2,133 residents, $28,917 income); Santo Domingo Pueblo (2,162 residents, $85,865 income); Questa (2,112 residents, $41,071 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Seneca, KS (2,139 residents); San Augustine, TX (2,139 residents); La Fermina comunidad, PR (2,139 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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Lordsburg?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 10.0% 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.
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.
Matched public schools
4
Bachelor's degree+
10.0%
Poverty estimate
27.0%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Lordsburg growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -142 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -6.1% 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
-6.1%
2025 estimate
2,181
2020 estimate
2,323
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Lordsburg?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 83.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.4 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
3.1%
Drive alone
83.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 678 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Lordsburg?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1155.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 49% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
323.5
Violent rate
831.8
Total reported rate
1155.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 27.0% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.2 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, New Mexico average
F
City profile score · Lordsburg, NM
17/100
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 F
10.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
27.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$33,899
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
832 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Lordsburg profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 77/100 (B+) · 92.2 index
Bachelor's+ share: 6/100 (F) · 10.0%
Poverty rate: 4/100 (F) · 27.0%
Household income: 0/100 (F) · $33,899
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 832 /100k
Where Lordsburg sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lordsburg'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 - Lordsburg highlighted among 24 peers.Read the chart values
Lordsburg, NM (this city): home $86,100, crime 1,155/100k
San Augustine, TX : home $70,600, crime 972/100k
Smackover, AR : home $113,100, crime 1,980/100k
Questa, NM : home $225,300, crime 835/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Lordsburg compare to other US cities?
Lordsburg measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income4% higher than other cities
Home value5% pricier than other cities
Median rent39% pricier than other cities
Safety58% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just New Mexico and the picture shifts: Lordsburg ranks #13 of 42 New Mexico cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Lordsburg 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 Lordsburg near the bottom of New Mexico's cities
Among the 409 New Mexico cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lordsburg ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lordsburg only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#277 of 324
15th percentile in New Mexico
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 409
0th percentile in New Mexico
Median Home Value
#272 of 324
16th percentile in New Mexico
Poverty Rate
#95 of 408
77th percentile in New Mexico
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#278 of 409
32nd 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
4th percentile nationally for median household income · 58th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lordsburg's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lordsburg'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 Lordsburg's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$86,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 95% 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
Lordsburg's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,199 of 15,516
More affordable than 73% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,770 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.5×, Lordsburg sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,199 of 15,516 and #3,770 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
$33,899Lordsburg, NM median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lordsburg, 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 Lordsburg, NM.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)10.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)27.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)41.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,139
Median Income
$33,899
Median Home Value
$86,100
Median Age
37.5
Poverty Rate
27.0%
Labor force participation
41.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
10.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1155.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
831.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
323.5
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
61.3°F
Annual Precipitation
11.3"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lordsburg's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,323 residents
2021
2,276 residents
2022
2,233 residents
2023
2,212 residents
2024
2,195 residents
2025
2,181 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.4 minutes
Drive Alone
83.6%
Carpool
6.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
6.3%
Work from Home
3.1%
Based on 678 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 Lordsburg. 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 Lordsburg 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 Lordsburg sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lordsburg 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.