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Housing in Dulce

A typical Dulce home is worth roughly $53,000

Typical home value
$53K
NM $318K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,200
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Dulce?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.3 years of income

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

You could afford about
$160,000
Typical Dulce home $53K

That covers a typical Dulce home, with $107K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$310
Loan $260Tax $30Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,200 a month here, $890 more than owning.

How Dulce ranks on affordability →

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the New Mexico typical property tax (0.70% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,200

Renters already here pay a median of $550, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$830
1 bedroom$980
2 bedrooms$1,200
3 bedrooms$1,680
4 bedrooms$1,990
34%
of households rent · NM 30%
395
renter households
12%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · NM 50%
36%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$550
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

66% of Dulce households own their home

Half of Dulce’s homes were built before 1992.

Owners and renters
Own 66%Rent 34%

New Mexico: 70% own.

1992
typical home built · NM 1985
3%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

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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. 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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