Sapello, New Mexico.
Typical home $360,123 (+13.5% in a year). Las Vegas, NM metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$834 (+79%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $42,942 +14%
- $317,181$360,123 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.
- Sapello$1,890
- New Mexico$1,658
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Sapello, NM rose 13.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sapello, San Miguel County, New Mexico
The Census does not count Sapello 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sapello is a small community in San Miguel County, in north-central New Mexico. Across the county, residents are older than most of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Renting is less common than in most American towns, and more residents live below the poverty line than across the country as a whole.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in shops, or in professional and business services. Unemployment across the county is higher than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs grew slightly over the past year. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than the national average, and few people work from home. Typical commutes are short.
Things to do. Storrie Lake State Park is a protected area a short drive away. Fort Union National Monument, a protected area a longer drive away, preserves the remains of a fort. The Adele Ilfeld Auditorium, a theatre a longer drive away, is another option for an evening out.
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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 46° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 54°. About 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Las Vegas Municipal Airport weather station, 12 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. 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. More on San Miguel County and the Las Vegas, NM metro.
Sapello home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sapello$360,123
- 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.
- Sapello5
Zip codes with a Sapello address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sapello — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.