Questa, New Mexico.
. Taos, NM metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$916 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- New Mexico$1,658
- United States$1,922
Living in Questa, Taos County, New Mexico
Questa is a village of 1,742 people in Taos County. Unemployment in Taos County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Taos 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Questa is a small village in northern New Mexico, in Taos County. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers are warm without being hot. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the village has stayed small and close-knit.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with others in professional and business services and in shops. Across Taos County, some of the largest workplaces are Holy Cross Hospital, Taos Schools and the University of New Mexico-Taos Campus. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, a protected area, and the Red River, a river, are both a short drive away, as is Latir Peak Wilderness, another protected area. For a longer outing, the Taos Art Museum and the Harwood Museum of Art are a longer drive away.
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- 21%of adults have a degree
What people in Taos County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Taos County had 10,996 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 49°. About 62 inches of snow and 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cerro weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Taos County
- TaosSki resorts without accommodations475
- Holy Cross HospitalCritical access hospital344FTE
- Taos SchoolsSchool district329FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores157
- University of New Mexico-Taos CampusTwo-year college152
- United SupermarketsSupermarket142
- El Monte SagradoHotels, resort, without casinos132
- Kit Carson ElectricDistribution of electric power127
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,923 people in all across the county; Questa has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Questa’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Taos County and the Taos, NM metro.
Questa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Questa listings — the market is roughly in balance.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Questa15.94%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Questa23
Zip codes with a Questa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Questa — 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.