Hurley, New Mexico.
Typical home $108,020 (-7.4% in a year). Silver City, NM metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$257 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,570 -7%
- $116,590$108,020 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $360 +0%
- $107,660$108,020 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.
- Hurley$567
- New Mexico$1,658
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Hurley, NM fell 7.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hurley, Grant County, New Mexico
Hurley is a town of 1,256 people in Grant County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Grant County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grant County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hurley is a small town in Grant County, and most people who live here own their homes, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Typical home values are modest, and the share of residents living below the poverty line is fairly high. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with fairly little rain and melted snow over the course of a year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and some work from home. Across Grant County, the largest workplaces include Western New Mexico University, Gila Regional Medical Center and Walmart, though the county has recently had slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Fort Bayard, a historic fort, is a short drive away and makes an easy outing. City of Rocks State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away and is a good choice for a day trip.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 12%work from home
What people in Grant County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grant County had 9,348 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 55° and lows near 30°; warmest in June, with highs near 90° and lows near 60°. About 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Bayard weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grant County
- Western New Mexico UniversityUniversity or college535
- Gila Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital370FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters297
- Silver City SchoolsSchool district284FTE
- Cobre SchoolsSchool district224FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture111
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores81
- Texas-New Mexico Power Company38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 563 people in all across the county; Hurley has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hurley’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 Grant County and the Silver City, NM metro.
Hurley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hurley$108,020
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hurley12
Zip codes with a Hurley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hurley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.