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Dixon, New Mexico.

. Espa±ola, NM metro.

What it costs per month · Dixon $1,658/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$916 (+124%) since Jan 2020.

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 New Mexico $1,658 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • New Mexico$1,658
  • United States$1,922

Living in Dixon, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Dixon, in Rio Arriba County, had 938 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Rio Arriba County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rio Arriba County work in schools and health care, then professional services.

People 938 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Dixon for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 4.8% Rio Arriba County, August 2026; 4.0% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Dixon for the Census survey to measure.

Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.

What it’s like

The place. Dixon is a small community in northern New Mexico, with Embudo Creek running in or beside town. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers are warm; precipitation is light across the whole year.

Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, government, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Rio Arriba County, household incomes sit at the level the county's own figure gives, and the largest workplaces include Espanola Schools, Espanola Hospital and Northern New Mexico College. Unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year, though the county has more jobs than it did a year earlier.

Things to do. Embudo Creek is a river in or beside town. A longer drive brings you to Carson National Forest, a protected area, and to the Harwood Museum of Art, a museum. Santa Fe National Forest is another protected area a longer drive away.

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What people in Rio Arriba County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care23%
  • Professional and business services21%
  • Government12%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment11%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Building trades9%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rio Arriba County had 9,536 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 44° and 15°; warmest in July, 88° and 55° 20° 40° 60° 80° J F M A M J J 88° 55° A S O N D 44° 15°
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 44° and 15°; warmest in July, 88° and 55° 20° 40° 60° 80° J F M A M J J 88° 55° A S O N D 44° 15°

Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 55°. About 11 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alcalde weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Rio Arriba County

  1. Espanola SchoolsSchool district469FTE
  2. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters327
  3. Espanola HospitalGeneral hospital300FTE
  4. Northern New Mexico CollegeUniversity or college259
  5. Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter129
  6. Dulce SchoolsSchool district104FTE
  7. Performance MaintenanceJanitorial services102
  8. Tsay Professional ServicesJanitorial services67

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 776 people in all across the county; Dixon has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.

Natural hazards

  1. LightningVery high
  2. Inland floodingVery high
  3. WildfireRelatively high
  4. LandslidesRelatively moderate
  5. Winter weatherRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dixon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.

From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Rio Arriba County and the Espa±ola, NM metro.

Dixon home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Dixon address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dixon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.