Los Alamos, NM (New Mexico) Houses and Residents
| Los Alamos: | $461,552 |
| New Mexico: | $243,100 |
Mean price in 2022:
Detached houses: $508,960
Here: $508,960 State: $322,045 Townhouses or other attached units: $333,904
Here: $333,904 State: $284,053 In 2-unit structures: $239,343
Here: $239,343 State: $354,971 In 3-to-4-unit structures: $241,379
Here: $241,379 State: $235,720 In 5-or-more-unit structures: $144,052
Here: $144,052 State: $217,304 Mobile homes: $140,777
Here: $140,777 State: $117,675
Total population: 12,019 (Urban population: 10,722 (all inside urban clusters), Rural population: 1,180 (all nonfarm))
Houses: 6,286 (6,082 occupied: 4,081 owner occupied, 2,175 renter occupied)
| % of renters here: | 35% |
| State: | 29% |
Housing density: 579 houses/condos per square mile
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses and condos in 2022 in this county: $220,485.
Median contract rent in 2022: $1,067 (lower quartile is $866, upper quartile is $1,435)
Median rent asked for vacant for-rent units in 2022: $4,569
Median gross rent in Los Alamos, NM in 2022: $1,208
Housing units in Los Alamos with a mortgage: 2,634 (177 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 85 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 98
Median household income for houses/condos with a mortgage: $175,302
Median household income for apartments without a mortgage: $133,180
Median monthly housing costs: $1,258
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Villa St
Los Alamos, NM 87544
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E Jemez Rd, Trlr 147
Los Alamos, NM 87544
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Ridgeway Dr
Los Alamos, NM 87544
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Calle Lopez
Espanola, NM 87532
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Espanola, NM 87532
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Hernandez, NM 87537
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Espanola, NM 87532
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Espanola, NM 87532
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Median year apartment built: 1975
Household type by relationship:
Households: 13,465- Male householders: 3,483 (1,098 living alone), Female householders: 2,515 (871 living alone)
2,941 spouses (2,927 opposite-sex spouses), 264 unmarried partners, (251 opposite-sex unmarried partners), 3,309 children (3,123 natural, 124 adopted, 62 stepchildren), 99 grandchildren, 116 brothers or sisters, 172 parents, 0 foster children, 120 other relatives, 342 non-relatives
- In group quarters: 103
Size of family households: 2,050 2-persons, 845 3-persons, 589 4-persons, 130 5-persons, 124 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons.
Size of nonfamily households: 2,102 1-person, 427 2-persons.
1,856 married couples with children.
561 single-parent households (253 men, 308 women).
84.5% of residents of Los Alamos speak English at home.
7.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (86% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
3.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
6.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (70% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 2% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (46% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 11% don't speak English at all).
Foreign born population: 1,563 (11.6%)
(53.5% of them are naturalized citizens)
Median number of rooms in houses and condos:
| Here: | 6.5 |
| State: | 5.9 |
Median number of rooms in apartments
| Here: | 3.7 |
| State: | 4.2 |
Owner-occupied
Renter-occupied
- Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Los Alamos, New Mexico
- 43no bedroom
- 221 bedroom
- 6212 bedrooms
- 1,9103 bedrooms
- 1,2014 bedrooms
- 2855+ bedrooms
- Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Los Alamos, New Mexico
- 424no bedroom
- 3081 bedroom
- 8412 bedrooms
- 5033 bedrooms
- 894 bedrooms
- 115+ bedrooms
Owner-occupied
Renter-occupied
- Cars and other vehicles available in Los Alamos in owner-occupied houses/condos
- 57no vehicle
- 8631 vehicle
- 1,7972 vehicles
- 8553 vehicles
- 3144 vehicles
- 1955+ vehicles
- Cars and other vehicles available in Los Alamos in renter-occupied apartments
- 44no vehicle
- 1,2021 vehicle
- 7652 vehicles
- 913 vehicles
- 564 vehicles
- 185+ vehicles
Owner-occupied
Renter-occupied
- Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Los Alamos, New Mexico
- 431 room
- 142 rooms
- 553 rooms
- 4264 rooms
- 5905 rooms
- 9136 rooms
- 6457 rooms
- 4038 rooms
- 9939+ rooms
- Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Los Alamos, New Mexico
- 3781 room
- 1412 rooms
- 4173 rooms
- 5374 rooms
- 2965 rooms
- 1446 rooms
- 1537 rooms
- 348 rooms
- 749+ rooms
Los Alamos, NM household income distribution
- 178Less than $10,000
- 98$10,000 to $19,999
- 246$20,000 to $29,999
- 300$30,000 to $39,999
- 158$40,000 to $49,999
- 262$50,000 to $59,999
- 251$60,000 to $74,999
- 651$75,000 to $99,999
- 899$100,000 to $124,999
- 547$125,000 to $149,999
- 1,130$150,000 to $199,999
- 1,626$200,000 or more
Home value of owner - occupied houses in 2022 in Los Alamos, NM
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- 29Less than $10,000
- 22$20,000 to $24,999
- 36$25,000 to $29,999
- 102$30,000 to $34,999
- 8$50,000 to $59,999
- 7$60,000 to $69,999
- 35$70,000 to $79,999
- 21$100,000 to $124,999
- 16$125,000 to $149,999
- 91$150,000 to $174,999
- 185$175,000 to $199,999
- 395$200,000 to $249,999
- 337$250,000 to $299,999
- 826$300,000 to $399,999
- 863$400,000 to $499,999
- 1,300$500,000 to $749,999
- 473$750,000 to $999,999
- 47$1,000,000 to $1,499,999
Rent paid by renters in 2022 in Los Alamos, NM
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- 10$200 to $249
- 14$250 to $299
- 5$350 to $399
- 53$500 to $549
- 41$550 to $599
- 35$600 to $649
- 28$650 to $699
- 82$700 to $749
- 106$750 to $799
- 280$800 to $899
- 212$900 to $999
- 291$1,000 to $1,249
- 345$1,250 to $1,499
- 275$1,500 to $1,999
- 203$2,000 to $2,499
- 21$3,500 or more
- 26No cash rent
Percentage of workers working in this county: 96.9%
Number of people working at home: 1,251 (16.1% of all workers)
Travel time to work (commute)
- Less than 5 minutes: 110
- 5 to 9 minutes: 1,465
- 10 to 14 minutes: 2,335
- 15 to 19 minutes: 1,482
- 20 to 24 minutes: 766
- 25 to 29 minutes: 67
- 30 to 34 minutes: 144
- 35 to 39 minutes: 0
- 40 to 44 minutes: 60
- 45 to 59 minutes: 66
- 60 to 89 minutes: 2
- 90 or more minutes: 75
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,724 (69.7%)
- Carpooled: 955 (11.6%)
- Bus: 128 (1.6%)
- Long-distance train or commuter rail: 13 (0.2%)
- Taxi: 16 (0.2%)
- Bicycle: 40 (0.5%)
- Walked: 121 (1.5%)
- Worked at home: 1,251 (15.2%)
- Unemployment by race in 2022
- Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic residents
- 0.8%Males
- 1.1%Females
- Unemployment rate for Black residents
- 53.3%Males
- Unemployment rate for other race residents
- 21.0%Males
- Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino residents
- 4.0%Males
- Year of entry for the foreign-born population in Los Alamos, New Mexico
- 7922010 or later
- 3082000 to 2009
- 1681990 to 1999
- 1541980 to 1989
- 731970 to 1979
- 194Before 1970
First ancestries reported:
- English: 851 (12.6%)
- German: 558 (8.3%)
- European: 467 (6.9%)
- American: 342 (5.1%)
- Italian: 274 (4.1%)
- Irish: 261 (3.9%)
- Polish: 126 (1.9%)
- Scottish: 106 (1.6%)
- Eastern European: 72 (1.1%)
- Swedish: 69 (1.0%)
- Belgian: 60 (0.9%)
- Greek: 59 (0.9%)
- Russian: 53 (0.8%)
- French: 49 (0.7%)
- Ethiopian: 46 (0.7%)
- Norwegian: 42 (0.6%)
- Serbian: 41 (0.6%)
- Ukrainian: 38 (0.6%)
- British: 33 (0.5%)
- Canadian: 33 (0.5%)
- Nigerian: 33 (0.5%)
- Northern European: 28 (0.4%)
- Scotch-Irish: 28 (0.4%)
- Dutch: 23 (0.3%)
- Welsh: 20 (0.3%)
- French Canadian: 20 (0.3%)
- Danish: 17 (0.3%)
- Hungarian: 12 (0.2%)
- Slavic: 11 (0.2%)
- Latvian: 9 (0.1%)
- Swiss: 9 (0.1%)
- Slovene: 8 (0.1%)
- Scandinavian: 8 (0.1%)
- New Zealander: 8 (0.1%)
- Slovak: 6 (0.09%)
- Croatian: 4 (0.06%)
- African: 1 (0.01%)
Most common places of birth for foreign-born residents (%):
China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan
| Los Alamos: | 28.0% (440) |
| New Mexico: | 1.6% (3,140) |
Mexico
| Los Alamos: | 7.5% (118) |
| New Mexico: | 66.5% (129,316) |
India
| Los Alamos: | 6.4% (101) |
| New Mexico: | 1.5% (3,002) |
Korea
| Los Alamos: | 5.2% (82) |
| New Mexico: | 0.8% (1,632) |
Taiwan
| Los Alamos: | 5.1% (81) |
| New Mexico: | 0.3% (530) |
Canada
| Los Alamos: | 4.3% (68) |
| New Mexico: | 1.1% (2,195) |
Ukraine
| Los Alamos: | 3.5% (55) |
| New Mexico: | 0.2% (383) |
Bangladesh
| Los Alamos: | 3.1% (48) |
| New Mexico: | 0.2% (477) |
Serbia
| Los Alamos: | 2.9% (45) |
| New Mexico: | 0.2% (304) |
Ethiopia
| Los Alamos: | 2.9% (45) |
| New Mexico: | 0.1% (205) |
Poland
| Los Alamos: | 2.2% (34) |
| New Mexico: | 0.3% (512) |
Other Eastern Europe
| Los Alamos: | 2.1% (33) |
| New Mexico: | 0.1% (197) |
Russia
| Los Alamos: | 2.0% (31) |
| New Mexico: | 0.4% (750) |
Nigeria
| Los Alamos: | 2.0% (31) |
| New Mexico: | 0.7% (1,297) |
Vietnam
| Los Alamos: | 1.8% (28) |
| New Mexico: | 2.1% (4,150) |
Colombia
| Los Alamos: | 1.7% (26) |
| New Mexico: | 0.6% (1,258) |
Philippines
| Los Alamos: | 1.6% (25) |
| New Mexico: | 3.2% (6,181) |
Spain
| Los Alamos: | 1.5% (24) |
| New Mexico: | 0.3% (673) |
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3,989
- Other state: 7,883
- Northeast: 1,098
- Midwest: 1,848
- South: 1,767
- West: 3,173
86.0% of Los Alamos residents lived in the same house 1 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 26.3% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 18.8% lived in New Mexico.
| Los Alamos: | 86.0% |
| State average: | 88.2% |
Education attainment for males 25 years and older:
- No schooling: 8
- Nursery to 4th grade: 0
- 5th and 6th grade: 28
- 7th and 8th grade: 23
- 9th grade: 7
- 10th grade: 0
- 11th grade: 0
- 12th grade, no diploma: 47
- High school graduate (or equivalency): 408
- Less than 1 year of college: 194
- Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 601
- Associate degree: 229
- Bachelor's degree: 1,114
- Master's degree: 1,038
- Professional school degree: 95
- Doctorate degree: 1,396
Education attainment for females 25 years and older:
- No schooling: 31
- Nursery to 4th grade: 10
- 5th and 6th grade: 29
- 7th and 8th grade: 0
- 9th grade: 67
- 10th grade: 11
- 11th grade: 0
- 12th grade, no diploma: 9
- High school graduate (or equivalency): 545
- Less than 1 year of college: 83
- Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 387
- Associate degree: 238
- Bachelor's degree: 1,661
- Master's degree: 1,279
- Professional school degree: 126
- Doctorate degree: 644
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,194
- One, attached: 734
- Two: 170
- 3 or 4: 402
- 5 to 9: 336
- 10 to 19: 367
- 20 to 49: 547
- 50 or more: 159
- Mobile homes: 373
Median worth of mobile homes: $185,425
Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities in 2022: 1.0%
House/condo owner moved in on average 9 years ago
Renter moved in on average 2 years ago
Houses and condos
Apartments
- 87.6%Utility gas
- 10.7%Electricity
- 1.0%Solar energy
- 0.5%Other fuel
- 0.2%Bottled, tank, or LP gas
- 69.1%Utility gas
- 22.7%Electricity
- 4.2%Bottled, tank, or LP gas
- 2.0%Other fuel
- 2.0%No fuel used
- 0.1%Fuel oil, kerosene, etc.
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 101
| Here: | 8.1% |
| New Mexico: | 10.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 18
| Here: | 2.1% |
| New Mexico: | 10.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 149
| Here: | 25.6% |
| New Mexico: | 12.3% |
