El Prado, New Mexico.
Typical home $479,749 (-0.6% in a year). Taos, NM metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,142 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,787 -1%
- $482,536$479,749 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,575 +1%
- $475,174$479,749 since Sep 2021
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.
- El Prado$2,518
- New Mexico$1,658
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in El Prado, NM fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in El Prado, Taos County, New Mexico
The Census does not count El Prado on its own, so the figures here are Taos County's. Half the county's households earn more than $58,950 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Taos County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Taos County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. El Prado sits in Taos County, where many residents are older than the typical American, and most homes are lived in by the people who own them, a larger share than across the country as a whole. Incomes here tend to run lower, and more people live below the poverty line than across the country. The town's Census figures are not counted on their own, so the picture comes from the wider county around it.
Work. Across Taos County, the most common jobs are in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, professional and business services, and shops. Joblessness has crept up over the past year, and the number of jobs has dipped slightly. Many adults here hold a degree, but fewer than in some parts of the country.
Things to do. The Harwood Museum of Art is a museum a short drive away, and Carson National Forest, a protected area, lies a longer drive off. Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, also a protected area, is a longer drive away as well. Winters are colder than in most of the country, with snow a regular part of the season, while summers are warm.
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- 15,549households
- 52.6median age
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What people in Taos County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Taos County had 10,996 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 53°. About 28 inches of snow and 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Taos weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Taos County
- TaosSki resorts without accommodations475
- Holy Cross HospitalCritical access hospital344FTE
- Taos SchoolsSchool district329FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores157
- University of New Mexico-Taos CampusTwo-year college152
- United SupermarketsSupermarket142
- El Monte SagradoHotels, resort, without casinos132
- Kit Carson ElectricDistribution of electric power127
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,923 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Taos County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Taos County and the Taos, NM metro.
El Prado home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- El Prado$479,749
- New Mexico$315,812
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 El Prado listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- El Prado19.09%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- El Prado67
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- El Prado10
Zip codes with a El Prado address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls El Prado — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.