Rociada, New Mexico.
Typical home $360,397 (+4.9% in a year). Las Vegas, NM metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$746 (+65%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $16,836 +5%
- $343,561$360,397 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.
- Rociada$1,892
- New Mexico$1,658
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Rociada, NM rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rociada, San Miguel County, New Mexico
The Census does not count Rociada on its own, so the figures here are San Miguel County's. Half the county's households earn more than $49,431 a year and half less; 24% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rociada is a small community in northern New Mexico, and the figures that describe it are for San Miguel County as a whole. Winters are colder than in most of the country, and snowfall is far heavier than in most of the country. Summers are mild and warm. Across San Miguel County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many residents are middle-aged or older, with a share of people living in poverty well above the national share.
Work. Across San Miguel County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in shops, and in professional and business services. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than the national average, and relatively few residents work from home. Unemployment is higher than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs grew a little over the past year. Commutes are fairly short.
Things to do. Morphy Lake State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Morphy Lake, a lake, is also a short drive away. Fort Union National Monument, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 11,931households
- 47.2median age
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
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 December, with highs near 44° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 47°. About 108 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gascon weather station, a mile 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. 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 moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across San Miguel County, 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.
Rociada home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rociada$360,397
- 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.
- Rociada15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Rociada address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rociada — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.