Mesquite, New Mexico.
Typical home $219,237 (+1.8% in a year). Las Cruces, NM metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$683 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,779 +2%
- $215,458$219,237 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,721 +43%
- $153,516$219,237 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.
- Mesquite$1,151
- New Mexico$1,658
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Mesquite, NM rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mesquite, Doña Ana County, New Mexico
Mesquite, in Doña Ana County, had 984 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Doña Ana County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Doña Ana County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mesquite is a very small community in Doña Ana County, in the desert country of southern New Mexico. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across the county run below the national level. Winters are cool and mild, summers are hot, and very little snow or rain falls in a year.
Work. Across Doña Ana County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in professional and business services. The county's largest workplaces include New Mexico State University, the Las Cruces and Gadsden school districts, and Memorial Medical Center. Joblessness across the county is somewhat higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Fort Fillmore, a historic fort, and Conkling Cavern, an archaeological site, are both a short drive away. Farther afield, Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks National Monument is a protected area of mountains and desert, a longer drive away. Aggie Memorial Stadium, also a short drive away, is a place to catch a game.
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- 0%of adults have a degree
- 0%work from home
What people in Doña Ana County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Doña Ana County had 81,834 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 58° and lows near 30°; warmest in June, with highs near 96° and lows near 64°. About 1 inches of snow and 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the State Univ weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Doña Ana County
- New Mexico State UniversityUniversity or college3,184
- Las Cruces SchoolsSchool district2,336FTE
- Gadsden SchoolsSchool district1,745FTE
- Memorial Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,161FTE
- Mountain View REG MED CTRGeneral hospital779FTE
- Stampede Culinary PartnersProcessed meats manufacturing730
- New Mexico State University-Dona AnaTwo-year college632
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters422
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 117 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,844 people in all across the county; Mesquite has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Mesquite’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 Doña Ana County and the Las Cruces, NM metro.
Mesquite home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mesquite$219,237
- 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 Mesquite address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mesquite — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.