Moriarty, New Mexico.
Typical home $227,100 (+2.5% in a year). Albuquerque, NM metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$540 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,545 +3%
- $221,555$227,100 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,755 +8%
- $209,345$227,100 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.
- Moriarty$1,192
- New Mexico$1,658
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 43 years.
Typical home values in Moriarty, NM rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Moriarty, Torrance County, New Mexico
Moriarty is a city of 1,946 people in Torrance County. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Torrance County was 6.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Torrance 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Moriarty is a small city in Torrance County, New Mexico, with a young population: residents are younger on the whole than in many American towns. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm but not extreme, with July the warmest. The climate is dry, with little rain and melted snow through the year. A four-year degree is held by few adults here, and more households live below the poverty line than is typical.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in government. Among the largest workplaces across Torrance County are Moriarty-Edgewood Schools, Torrance County itself and Estancia Schools. The commute is fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, the US Southwest Soaring Museum is a museum devoted to flight, and Lake Estancia is a lake nearby. A longer drive away, the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History is a museum, and Sandia Cave is an archaeological site. Most homes in town are lived in by their owners.
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- 713households
- 5%of adults have a degree
- 37%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Torrance County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Torrance County had 3,191 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 54°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moriarty Northeast weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Torrance County
- Moriarty-edgewood SchoolsSchool district359FTE
- Torrance CountyGeneral services departments, government133
- Estancia SchoolsSchool district78FTE
- Central NM Electric CooperativeElectric power distribution systems63
- Mountainair SchoolsSchool district44FTE
- CarvanaMotor vehicle dealers38
- Universal Waste SystemsGarbage collection services32
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 266 people in all across the county; Moriarty has one of its own. School districts come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Moriarty’s 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 Torrance County and the Albuquerque, NM metro.
Moriarty home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Moriarty$227,100
- 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.
- Moriarty16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Moriarty4
Zip codes with a Moriarty address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Moriarty — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.