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A town of 4,174, incorporated in 1974.
Bosque Farms gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $421K for a typical one, or 5.9 years of the Albuquerque metro’s $71K median household income. It grades B− overall, 11th of 72 graded towns in New Mexico. The low prices come with trade-offs. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 85% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. On safety, just 1 of New Mexico’s 32 towns do better. Bosque Farms’ trail density is 1.3 miles per square mile, against 1.0 in New Mexico’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns. Only 3 of the 32 New Mexico towns we compare have a lower violent crime rate than Bosque Farms.
Where Bosque Farms beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Where Bosque Farms’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Mexico), ordered by how far Bosque Farms is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 3,353 in 1980, 4,020 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1935 and 3 maps from 1952 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Bosque Farms. Close and well known come first.
15 mi Stadium & arenaUniversity Stadium
17 mi National MonumentPetroglyph National Monument311K visitors a year
16 mi TheatreKiMo Theater
17 mi Stadium & arenaTingley Coliseum
18 mi MuseumNational Museum of Nuclear Science & History
32 mi Stadium & arenaRio Rancho Events CenterUniversity Stadium: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY 4.0 · Petroglyph National Monument: Unknown, Public domain · KiMo Theater: Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Tingley Coliseum: John Phelan, CC BY 3.0 · National Museum of Nuclear Science & History: AllenS, Public domain · Rio Rancho Events Center: Maryabm2009, CC BY-SA 4.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Bosque Farms, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 27, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in Bosque Farms.
Bosque Farms fares better on crime within New Mexico than nationally, has hotter summers than nearly all U.S. towns and has added a third more jobs in ten years.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its public schools are run by the Los Lunas school district. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bosque Farms ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 458 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NM on state tests and graduation
Since 1999, 2 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Bosque Farms.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Jobs based here grew from 551 in 2013 to 722.
Most working residents leave Bosque Farms for work: only 7% work in town. Bosque Farms’ average trip to work is 29 minutes, where New Mexico’s towns sit at 23 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. Since 2013, Bosque Farms has added 171 jobs, to 722 in 2023.
| Bosque Farms | New Mexico towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 23 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 17% | 21% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $82,000 | $55,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 6.7% | 15% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
89% of households own their home in Bosque Farms. Typical home values rose 5.2% in the year to September 2026. The median rent in Bosque Farms is $897 a month.
| Bosque Farms | New Mexico towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 89% | 70% | 73% |
| Median rent | $897 a month | $944 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
At 10.4 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 96% of New Mexico’s graded towns. Reported crimes rose from 24 to 38 over the last three FBI years, a rise beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
Bosque Farms’ property crime rate is 7.9 per 1,000 residents.
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
July afternoons average 94°, hotter than in 95% of U.S. towns; January nights average 21.4°.
Bosque Farms has chilly winters and hot summers, with very little rain. About 5 inches of snow falls in a winter.
| Bosque Farms | New Mexico towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 94°F | 93°F | 85°F |
| January low | 21°F | 21°F | 22°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Bosque Farms beats the New Mexico average on 5 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 7. 12% of Bosque Farms adults binge drink.
| Bosque Farms | New Mexico towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 13% | 16% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 69% | 79% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 12% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 35% | 35% |
| What stands out | Bosque Farms | NM |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 9.4% | 14.2% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 12.8% | 15.6% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.3% | 7.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Adults 35 to 64 are 42% of residents (37% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 18% of residents (23% statewide). Among 73 New Mexico towns, just 7 have a higher median age than Bosque Farms. Bosque Farms has grown 3.9% since 2020, to 4,174 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Bosque Farms | New Mexico towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 47.3 years | 37.2 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 18% | 24% | 22% |
| Aged 65 or older | 22% | 17% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 33% | 23% | 29% |
48% women, 52% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±5 points. Across New Mexico, 50.3% of residents are women. Among residents 35 to 44, 73% are men (NM 51%).
| Bosque Farms | NM | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 8.2% | 11% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.6% | 10.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 5.1% | 9.3% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 12.8% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 11% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 16.4% | 11.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 14.6% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 13.8% | 11.5% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 8.5% | 7.8% | 7% |
| No diploma | 4.5% | 12% | 10.4% |
| High school | 27.6% | 25.7% | 26% |
| Some college | 27.5% | 22.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 7.1% | 9.2% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 24.8% | 17.1% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 8.5% | 13.9% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 4,200, single groups can be off by several points
1 within 15 miles of the center of Bosque Farms
About 4 of every 100 Bosque Farms residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Mexico.
Village in Valencia County, New Mexico, United States
Bosque Farms is a village in Valencia County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 4,020 in the 2020 census. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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One town shares a border with Bosque Farms.
| Town | NM rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bosque Farms | #11 | B− | B | B+ | B− | C+ |
| Peralta | #15 | C+ | C+ | B− | B− | B |
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Bosque Farms grades B− overall, better than 46% of U.S. towns and #11 of 72 in New Mexico. It grades C+ for health, B+ for safety and B− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.
