Nogal, New Mexico.
Typical home $368,916 (+0.1% in a year). Ruidoso, NM metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$15 (+1%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $285 +0%
- $368,631$368,916 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.
- Nogal$1,936
- New Mexico$1,658
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Nogal, NM rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Nogal, Lincoln County, New Mexico
Nogal, in Lincoln County, had 105 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nogal is a small community in Lincoln County, in the mountains of south-central New Mexico. It is one of the quieter places in a county that many people know for its high country and open skies. Neighbors tend to know one another, and daily life moves at an unhurried pace.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Professional and business services and local shops also provide work for people here. Few residents work from home, so most people travel out of the community each day.
Things to do. Bonito Lake, a reservoir, lies a short drive away and suits a relaxed afternoon by the water. Monjeau Lookout, a tourist attraction, is also a short drive off and offers wide views over the surrounding mountains. For a longer outing, Fort Stanton, a historic fort, sits a longer drive away.
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- 4%work from home
What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 6,713 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 50° and lows near 24°; warmest in June, with highs near 87° and lows near 51°. About 27 inches of snow and 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Capitan weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Lincoln County Medical CenterCritical access hospital284FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters245
- Ruidoso SchoolsSchool district242FTE
- Village of RuidosoGeneral services departments, government235
- United SupermarketsSupermarket128
- Eastern New Mexico University Ruidoso Branch Community CollegeTwo-year college100
- Capitan SchoolsSchool district70FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 693 people in all across the county; Nogal has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), 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
- WildfireVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Nogal’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 Lincoln County and the Ruidoso, NM metro.
Nogal home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nogal$368,916
- 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.
- Nogal8
Zip codes with a Nogal address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nogal — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.