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Housing in Doña Ana

A typical Doña Ana home is worth roughly $96,000

Home prices around Doña Ana have risen about 50% over the past 5 years.

Typical home value
$96K
▲ 2.9% in a year · NM $318K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$951
NM $1,731

What kind of housing town is Doña Ana?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.7 years of income

Less than across New Mexico (5 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$138,000
Typical Doña Ana home $96K

That covers a typical Doña Ana home, with $42K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$580
Loan $480Tax $80Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $390 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Doña Ana’s typical property tax (0.99% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

98% of Doña Ana households own their home

Half of Doña Ana’s homes were built before 1979.

Owners and renters
Own 98%Rent 2%

New Mexico: 70% own.

1979
typical home built · NM 1985
$951
median property tax bill · NM $1,731
0.99%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · NM 0.70%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Price trend

Home prices up 50% in 5 years

The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Doña Ana rose 50% over the past 5 years, about the same as across New Mexico. Last year prices rose 2.9%.

Doña Ana areaNew Mexico
0%+50%+100%+150%+200%200020052010201520202025
+2.9%
past year
+50%
past 5 years
+72%
past 10 years

Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Doña Ana, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $970

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$700
1 bedroom$890
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,350
4 bedrooms$1,480
2%
of households rent · NM 30%
7
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Las Cruces, NM MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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