Ramah, New Mexico.
. Grants, 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 Ramah, Cibola County, New Mexico
Ramah, in Cibola County, had 461 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Cibola County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cibola 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ramah is a very small community in Cibola County, New Mexico, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and a good deal of snow falls each year. Summers are warm without being extreme, and the year as a whole is fairly dry.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, or for government. Across Cibola County, Grants Schools, Walmart and Cibola General Hospital are among the largest workplaces. Household incomes across the county are modest, and unemployment there is a little higher than it was a year ago. The typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. For a day out, El Morro National Monument is a protected area a longer drive away, and Bluewater Lake State Park is another protected area, also a longer drive away. The A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center is a museum, likewise a longer drive off. Each is best planned as an outing rather than a quick errand.
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- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Cibola County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cibola County had 7,268 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 51°. About 38 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the El Morro Natl Mon weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cibola County
- Grants SchoolsSchool district458FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters205
- Cibola General HospitalCritical access hospital202FTE
- City of GrantsGeneral public administration168
- Cibola CountyPersonnel offices, government109
- Critical Nurse StaffingMedical93
- New Mexico State University-GrantsTwo-year college85
- Stewart Brothers DrillingWater well drilling70
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 733 people in all across the county; Ramah has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ramah’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Cibola County and the Grants, NM metro.
Ramah 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ramah13
Zip codes with a Ramah address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ramah — 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.