Grants, New Mexico.
Typical home $160,355 (+8.2% in a year). Grants, NM metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$468 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,186 +8%
- $148,169$160,355 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,841 +29%
- $124,514$160,355 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.
- Grants$842
- New Mexico$1,658
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Grants, NM rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grants, Cibola County, New Mexico
Grants is a city of 9,163 people in Cibola County. Half its households earn more than $47,183 a year and half less, against $50,759 across Cibola County; 34% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Cibola County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grants is a small city in Cibola County, New Mexico. Household incomes here run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect to find. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with chilly days and nights that fall well below freezing, while July afternoons turn hot.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and government. Among the largest workplaces in Grants are Grants Schools, Cibola General Hospital and the City of Grants. Unemployment across Cibola County is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has grown only slightly. Commutes are short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. The Western New Mexico Aviation Heritage Museum is a short drive away. Farther out, El Malpais National Monument offers protected lava country to explore, and Bluewater Lake State Park is a protected area for time near the water. Both are a longer drive away.
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- 2,919households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 34%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cibola County had 7,268 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 54°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grants Milan Municipal Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grants
- Grants SchoolsSchool district458FTE
- Cibola General HospitalCritical access hospital202FTE
- City of GrantsGeneral public administration168
- Critical Nurse StaffingMedical93
- New Mexico State University-GrantsTwo-year college85
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 261 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Grants’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Cibola County and the Grants, NM metro.
Grants home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grants$160,355
- New Mexico$315,812
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Grants 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.
- Grants15.95%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Grants40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Grants7
Zip codes with a Grants address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grants — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.