Pecos, New Mexico.
Typical home $387,034 (+4.0% in a year). Las Vegas, NM metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$851 (+72%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $14,782 +4%
- $372,253$387,034 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.
- Pecos$2,031
- New Mexico$1,658
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Pecos, NM rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pecos, San Miguel County, New Mexico
Pecos is a village of 1,392 people in San Miguel County. Unemployment in San Miguel County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in San Miguel County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pecos is a small village in San Miguel County, in the high country east of Santa Fe. Winters here are cold, with days that stay cool even at their mildest and nights that dip well below freezing, and a fair amount of snow falls each year. Summers are warm but not hot, and the year as a whole is fairly dry. Homes are valued above what is typical for the county's incomes, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller share of adults than in many places. Getting to work often means a long drive.
Work. Residents of Pecos work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in government, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across San Miguel County, the largest workplaces include New Mexico Highlands University, the City of Las Vegas and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is higher than it was a year ago, though the county has added a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Pecos National Historical Park sits in or beside town and is a protected area that suits an easy afternoon. A short drive away are Glorieta Pass Battlefield, an archaeological site, and the Glorieta Baldy Lookout Tower, a tourist attraction. Farther off, a longer drive brings you to Santa Fe National Forest, a protected area for hiking and time outdoors, and to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum for an indoor day.
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- 26%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 42 mintypical commute
What people in San Miguel County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Miguel County had 7,821 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 54°. About 26 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pecos Nm weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in San Miguel County
- New Mexico Highlands UniversityUniversity or college715
- City of Las VegasCity and town managers' offices355
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters254
- Luna Community CollegeTwo-year college166
- Las Vegas City SchoolsSchool district141FTE
- West Las Vegas SchoolsSchool district127FTE
- Alta Vista Regional HospitalCritical access hospital118FTE
- Franken Construction CompanyCommercial building construction general contractors87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,143 people in all across the county; Pecos has one 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pecos’ 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 San Miguel County and the Las Vegas, NM metro.
Pecos home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pecos$387,034
- 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.
- Pecos12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Pecos address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pecos — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Pecos
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87552 | Pecos | 2,377 | — | $317,199 |
| 87538 | Ilfeld | 467 | — | $292,864 |