Counties / New Mexico / San Juan County

San Juan County, NM

FIPS 35045 · population 120,942 · part of Farmington, NM

$278k
Zillow home value · 2026-06
The numbers

What this county costs and earns

Everything here joins on the county FIPS code, so each figure comes from the agency that publishes it with no name matching in between.

Zillow home value
$278k
▲ 5.9% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
Median asking rent
$1,286
▲ 5.2% year over year
Zillow ZORI · direct
Gross yield
5.5%
annual rent ÷ price, before costs
derived: rent × 12 ÷ price ✓
HUD 2-bed standard
$1,085
market rent is 1.19x the standard
HUD Fair Market Rent · direct
Independent price check

Do two methods point the same way?

Zillow estimates a current home value. FHFA tracks repeat mortgage transactions. Their growth rates should be read side by side, not averaged.

Both annual signals move in the same direction
FHFA five-year cumulative+50.9%not annualized · through 2025
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06+5.9%FHFA HPI2025+6.2%
Annual changes use different methods and may use different periods. The comparison checks direction and magnitude; it does not create a blended estimate. Zillow county ZHVI pulled 2026-07-26; FHFA annual county HPI pulled 2026-07-28.
Owner-reported value$194k
Surveyed gross rent$956
Rent burden 30%+42.4%
Median year built1986
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
13.5%vacant
48,255estimated housing units
Occupied tenure28.8% renter
owner 71.2%renter 28.8%
Structure mix58.8% single-family
Single-family 58.8%20+ units 0.9%Mobile home 30.1%Other 10.2%
ACS estimates describe the standing housing stock and occupied tenure. They do not measure current listings, transaction prices or asking rents.

Survey source: Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30. These values describe different housing universes and are not combined into gross yield.

Annual average covered jobs47,769▲ 2.4% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments3,092annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$1,131▲ 5.0% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorTrade, transportation, and utilities24.6% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS+2.4%WEEKLY WAGE+5.0%Trade, transportation, and utilities24.6%
Annual QCEW counts cover jobs located at reporting establishments. The industry share uses disclosed private covered employment; it is not a resident-employment measure or a forecast.

Workplace source: BLS QCEW — county employment and wages · annual county employment and wages 2025 vs 2024 · pulled 2026-07-31. QCEW counts covered jobs located in the county, not employed residents or the metro score’s CES/LAUS series.

County brief

What the local evidence says

01Decision frame

San Juan County’s tension is a screenable county income case against uncertain exit support from listing concessions and net outmigration. Investors able to verify submarket rents, flood exposure and property expenses should investigate; buyers requiring fast resale liquidity or assuming countywide appreciation should be cautious. Zillow reports a $278,025 median home value, $1,286 monthly median asking rent and a 5.55% gross yield before costs.

02Housing economics

Reported gross yield is available because market rent is published, but it is pre-cost, not net cash flow. Effective property tax is 0.68%, and median annual tax is $1,317; debt service, insurance, maintenance, vacancy, utilities and flood costs are not published. The supplied HUD FMR is a payment standard, not asking rent, and cannot replace market rent. FHFA’s annual 2025 repeat-transaction HPI rose 6.2% and gained 50.86% cumulatively over five years; it is an index, not a home value. Its direction supports but cannot be averaged with Zillow’s 2026-06 5.93% value change.

03Demand & competition

At 2026-06, Realtor.com MLS data show 125 active listings and 15.68% price-reduced. These describe visible asking supply and seller concessions, not closed-sale pricing or buyer demand by themselves. Tax-return movers yielded net migration of -77, although inbound movers’ average AGI was $948 higher; that reports mover mix, not durable household demand. Investors represented 4.56% of 899 purchases, a limited competition signal rather than all-cash buyer share.

04Risk & next checks

Inland flood is the dominant hazard, and modeled annual climate loss is 0.15% of building value. Address-level flood maps, insurance and mitigation quotes, lease and vacancy files, closed-sale comparables, and property condition remain necessary. Their absence prevents a property-level carrying-cost, net-yield, resale-depth or flood-cost conclusion; county evidence cannot fill those gaps.

Cities & communities

Where people live within San Juan County

Census-recognized incorporated places and CDPs that intersect this county. The list does not pretend to include every neighborhood or informal community.

Population scale

Largest Census places

ACS 2024 5-year
Farmington city46.3KShiprock CDP7.6KBloomfield city7.4KAztec city6.2KCrouch Mesa CDP4.8KLee Acres CDP4.3KFlora Vista CDP2.8KCenter Point CDP2.3K
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

37 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    Farmington cityIncorporated place
    46,314
  2. 02
    Shiprock CDPCensus-designated place
    7,610
  3. 03
    Bloomfield cityIncorporated place
    7,395
  4. 04
    Aztec cityIncorporated place
    6,150
  5. 05
    Crouch Mesa CDPCensus-designated place
    4,812
  6. 06
    Lee Acres CDPCensus-designated place
    4,272
  7. 07
    Flora Vista CDPCensus-designated place
    2,770
  8. 08
    Center Point CDPCensus-designated place
    2,286
  9. 09
    West Hammond CDPCensus-designated place
    2,236
  10. 10
    La Plata CDPCensus-designated place
    2,233
  11. 11
    Angustura CDPCensus-designated place
    1,997
  12. 12
    South River CDPCensus-designated place
    1,810
Show 25 more places
  1. 13
    Upper Fruitland CDPCensus-designated place
    1,457
  2. 14
    Spencerville CDPCensus-designated place
    1,264
  3. 15
    Waterflow CDPCensus-designated place
    1,140
  4. 16
    Cedar Hill CDPCensus-designated place
    902
  5. 17
    Napi Headquarters CDPCensus-designated place
    717
  6. 18
    North Light Plant CDPCensus-designated place
    579
  7. 19
    Fruitland CDPCensus-designated place
    574
  8. 20
    Blanco CDPCensus-designated place
    492
  9. 21
    Kirtland townIncorporated place
    465
  10. 22
    Sullivan CDPCensus-designated place
    463
  11. 23
    Newcomb CDPCensus-designated place
    415
  12. 24
    Ojo Amarillo CDPCensus-designated place
    411
  13. 25
    Nenahnezad CDPCensus-designated place
    406
  14. 26
    Naschitti CDPCensus-designated place
    361
  15. 27
    Sheep Springs CDPCensus-designated place
    360
  16. 28
    Nageezi CDPCensus-designated place
    327
  17. 29
    Crystal CDPCensus-designated place · spans 2 counties
    287
  18. 30
    Navajo Dam CDPCensus-designated place
    269
  19. 31
    Totah Vista CDPCensus-designated place
    235
  20. 32
    Sanostee CDPCensus-designated place
    214
  21. 33
    Beclabito CDPCensus-designated place
    212
  22. 34
    Middle Mesa CDPCensus-designated place
    198
  23. 35
    Turley CDPCensus-designated place
    117
  24. 36
    Lake Valley CDPCensus-designated place
    83
  25. 37
    La Boca CDPCensus-designated place
    78

Population is the total place-wide ACS estimate, not an allocated county share. A place crossing a county line is labelled explicitly. Source: Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30.

Risk, demand and competition

The three things a price does not tell you

01
Risk & carrying costFEMA NRI + Census ACS
Dominant hazardinland flooding

0.149% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax0.68%

$1,317 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration-77

1,966 in · 2,043 out

Arriving vs leaving income+$948

$52,481 arriving · $51,533 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors4.6%

41 of 899 mortgages

investorother financed
Current listing pressure

What sellers and visible supply are doing

Realtor.com® Economic Research · county inventory 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-28
Active listings125▼ 12.6% year over year
Median days on market47▼ 7.4% year over year
Listings price-reduced15.7%seller-concession signal
Median listing pricen/a▼ 0.3% year over year

Listing price is an asking price, not a closed sale. Quality-flagged county rows are withheld instead of displayed.

Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Flood insurance or mitigation costs may absorb the reported pre-cost yield.
  2. MLS concessions may translate into weaker executable exit prices than county value indicators suggest.
  3. Unpublished vacancy, operating expenses and property condition may make county rent unrepresentative of net performance.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

Can HUD FMR be used as the county's asking rent?

No. The record identifies HUD FMR as a payment standard, while Zillow publishes the county median asking rent separately.

Can Zillow and FHFA figures be combined into a single appreciation rate?

No. Zillow is a county home-value measure at its supplied period, while FHFA is a repeat-transaction appreciation index for a different supplied period and method.

What does the QCEW labor evidence measure?

It measures annual covered employment at workplaces in the county and average weekly covered-worker wages. Trade, transportation, and utilities is the largest disclosed private supersector; this is not resident employment or unemployment.