Vado, New Mexico.
Typical home $261,139 (+0.3% in a year). Las Cruces, NM metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$746 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $793 +0%
- $260,346$261,139 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,388 +26%
- $207,751$261,139 since Sep 2021
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.
- Vado$1,371
- New Mexico$1,658
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Vado, NM rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vado, Doña Ana County, New Mexico
Vado, in Doña Ana County, had 2,930 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Doña Ana County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Doña Ana 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vado is a small community in Doña Ana County, in the far south of New Mexico. Its residents are younger than in most of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and mild, summers are hot, snow is rare, and the year brings very little rain.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, or in professional and business services. Across Doña Ana County, some of the largest workplaces are New Mexico State University, Gadsden Schools and Memorial Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, though the county has added jobs, and the typical commute is a moderate drive.
Things to do. Conkling Cavern, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the El Paso Zoo and the El Paso Museum of Art, and to protected land such as Franklin Mountains State Park and Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks National Monument.
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- 879households
- 4%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Doña Ana County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Doña Ana County had 81,834 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in June, with highs near 95° and lows near 70°. About 9 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the La Tuna South weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Doña Ana County
- New Mexico State UniversityUniversity or college3,184
- Las Cruces SchoolsSchool district2,336FTE
- Gadsden SchoolsSchool district1,745FTE
- Memorial Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,161FTE
- Mountain View REG MED CTRGeneral hospital779FTE
- Stampede Culinary PartnersProcessed meats manufacturing730
- New Mexico State University-Dona AnaTwo-year college632
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters422
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 117 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,844 people in all across the county; Vado has none 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of VadoRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of VadoRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vado’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 Doña Ana County and the Las Cruces, NM metro.
Vado home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vado$261,139
- 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.
Zip codes with a Vado address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vado — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.