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Place dossier plate
SheetNM-WAGON-MOUND-NM · Wagon Mound, NM 587 pop · income 9th 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 Wagon Mound
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Wagon Mound on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Artemus · lowest
25,179
Artemus · lowest
25,179 median HH income
27.6% of the leader · rank #1
St. Donatus · near
41,813
St. Donatus · near
41,813 median HH income
45.9% of the leader · rank #2
Sayre · near
41,813
Sayre · near
41,813 median HH income
45.9% of the leader · rank #3
Eureka Springs · near
41,821
Eureka Springs · near
41,821 median HH income
45.9% of the leader · rank #4
Wagon Mound · this city
41,823
Wagon Mound · this city
41,823 median HH income
45.9% of the leader · rank #5
Deep River · near
41,827
Deep River · near
41,827 median HH income
45.9% of the leader · rank #6
Kirtland · highest
91,111
Kirtland · highest
91,111 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 Wagon Mound 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: 587.
Nationally, Wagon Mound sits in the 9th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
9th
percentile, household income
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: Wagon Mound, NM
587 people live in Wagon Mound, New Mexico - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Wagon Mound brings in $41,823 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.2%. The median resident age is 62.3 years. Educational attainment runs 33.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 43.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 2 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,129 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in New Mexico run around $167, per EIA 2023 residential energy 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 Wagon Mound'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to population change to schools and households to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Wagon Mound, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Wagon Mound?
Within New Mexico, the closest population matches are Mesquite (584 residents, $68,330 income); Encinal (591 residents); Cuartelez (594 residents). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Newville, AL (587 residents); Mountain Mesa, CA (587 residents); Hopkins Park, IL (587 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Wagon Mound?
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 41.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Is Wagon Mound 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 -4 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.
What can 2 Census tracts reveal inside Wagon Mound?
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.
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 Wagon Mound?
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 33.3% 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 matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
Matched public schools
2
Bachelor's degree+
33.3%
Poverty estimate
4.2%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 4.2% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.2 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, New Mexico average
C-
City profile score · Wagon Mound, NM
52/100
4 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.
Poverty rate B
4.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
33.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$41,823
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Wagon Mound profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 77/100 (B+) · 92.2 index
Poverty rate: 71/100 (B) · 4.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 64/100 (C+) · 33.3%
Household income: 9/100 (F) · $41,823
How does Wagon Mound compare to other US cities?
Where Wagon Mound sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income9% higher 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 Wagon Mound 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 Wagon Mound near the bottom of New Mexico's cities
Among the 409 New Mexico cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Wagon Mound ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Wagon Mound only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#236 of 324
27th percentile in New Mexico
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 409
0th percentile in New Mexico
Poverty Rate
#285 of 408
30th percentile in New Mexico
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#89 of 409
78th 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
9th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$41,823Wagon Mound, NM median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Wagon Mound, 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 Wagon Mound, NM.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)43.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
587
Median Income
$41,823
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
62.3
Poverty Rate
4.2%
Labor force participation
43.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
33.3%
Schools
Total Schools
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Wagon Mound's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
265 residents
2021
266 residents
2022
266 residents
2023
265 residents
2024
263 residents
2025
261 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
41.4%
Carpool
47.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
7.0%
Work from Home
2.6%
Other
1.9%
Based on 227 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 Wagon Mound. 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 Wagon Mound 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 Wagon Mound sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Wagon Mound 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, 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.