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Chamisal, NM

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Chamisal, NM: 1 USPS ZIP, population 1,003. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

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ACS city ledger plate

Sheet CHAMISAL-NM · Chamisal, NM 1 ZIPs · 1,003 pop · #23964/25278 · Taos County

INC-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-MID

  • INC-LOW $39,718
  • RANK-BOTTOM #23964/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Penasco
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 87% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 1,003
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-MID $218,600

Nearest income peer: Penasco, NM (+ $9,188 income $)

Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.

Income neighbourhood around Chamisal

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Chamisal on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

median HH income

What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-25

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Chamisal, NM sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

5th pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
1,003
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$39,718
avg ZIP median income

Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.

Lower-income footing on only 1 ZIP ($39,718 average) · poverty 12.3%. The primary code (87521) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (86.9%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within New Mexico, Hatch is the closest lower-income city and Brimhall the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Chamisal.

Population concentration

Chamisal's single ZIP 87521 carries the town

Chamisal is published as a single USPS ZIP. Code 87521 is the entire residential footprint (1,003 ACS residents), so the city page and the ZIP page tell the same household story, open that ZIP for income, tenure, and commute detail.

Census ZBP business roll-up

No ZBP establishments filed for Chamisal's ZIPs

Census County Business Patterns has no establishment rows joined to the ACS ZIPs mapped to Chamisal. Read demography on this page; business counts are absent for this footprint.

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ZIP Codes in Chamisal, NM

These ZIP codes sit in Taos County, which covers 19 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Chamisal. See the Taos County roll-up →

Every one of the 8 cities sharing Taos County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Chamisal, Taos, Ranchos De Taos and El Prado among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Arroyo Seco marks the far end of that range at $71,556, 80% above Chamisal.

ZIP Code Population Median income Establishments Density
87521 1,003 $39,718 n/a 4
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