Eunice, New Mexico.
Typical home $157,125 (+3.7% in a year). Hobbs, NM metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $111 (-12%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $5,602 +4%
- $151,523$157,125 since Sep 2025
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.
- Eunice$825
- New Mexico$1,658
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Eunice, NM rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eunice, Lea County, New Mexico
Eunice is a city of 3,056 people in Lea County. Unemployment in Lea County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lea County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eunice is a small city in the dry southeastern corner of New Mexico, close to the Texas line. Not many residents hold a four-year degree, and a share of households live below the poverty line. Homes here cost well under what is typical across much of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and a good number work in farming, forestry and mining, which here is closely tied to the oil and gas fields. Transport, warehouses, utilities and the building trades also employ people. The biggest workplaces across Lea County include Hobbs Schools, Nor-lea Hospital and Mewbourne Oil Company. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. The one nearby place on the list is the Western Heritage Museum & Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame, a museum a longer drive away. Winters are mild and mostly dry, with only a dusting of snow, and summers are hot, so outings are often easiest in the cooler months.
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- 1,094households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Lea County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lea County had 34,047 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hobbs weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lea County
- Hobbs SchoolsSchool district813FTE
- City of HobbsCity and town managers' offices591
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters437
- Nor-lea HospitalCritical access hospital433FTE
- Mewbourne Oil CompanyOil and gas field development for own account417
- Lovington SchoolsSchool district394FTE
- dba Urenco USAUranium, enriched, manufacturing352
- New Mexico Junior CollegeTwo-year college316
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,594 people in all across the county; Eunice has one 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
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eunice’s census tracts, 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 Lea County and the Hobbs, NM metro.
Eunice home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eunice$157,125
- New Mexico$315,812
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Eunice address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eunice — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.