Butterfield ParkNM
A town of 1,119.
Is Butterfield Park a good place to live?
Butterfield Park’s weakest subject grade is a D− for walkability. Butterfield Park’s average trip to work is 73 minutes, against 23 minutes in New Mexico’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. On cost of living, just 2 of New Mexico’s 156 towns do worse. The median household income is $34K, and 33% of residents live below the poverty line. On the outdoors, just 1 of New Mexico’s 161 towns do worse. Butterfield Park has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Butterfield Park stand out
Where Butterfield Park beats most towns.
1,119 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Butterfield Park grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Mexico), ordered by how far Butterfield Park is from typical.
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Moving to Butterfield Park: who provides what
Butterfield Park is unincorporated, so Doña Ana County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 27, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Butterfield Park.
A smaller share of working residents in Butterfield Park work locally than in the typical New Mexico or U.S. town
0.3% of working residents work locally in Butterfield Park, below both the New Mexico town median (14%) and the median of U.S. towns (8%). The top destinations are Las Cruces (55%), El Paso (5%) and Albuquerque (5%). Half commute less than 10 miles.
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Inland flooding leads a low hazard risk in Butterfield Park
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 77% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Mild winters and hot summers in Butterfield Park
Butterfield Park has mild winters and hot summers, with very little rain. The July high in Butterfield Park is 93°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
On CDC estimates, Butterfield Park is less healthy than 60% of U.S. towns
Butterfield Park beats the New Mexico average on 5 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 20% of Butterfield Park adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance. Among 74 New Mexico towns, just 4 have a lower share of adults who have been diagnosed with depression than Butterfield Park.
| Butterfield Park | New Mexico towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 16% | 8.1% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 34% | 36% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 70% | 69% | 79% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 23% | 14% |
| What stands out | Butterfield Park | NM |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 6.2% | 14.2% |
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.6% | 7.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
An age mix much like New Mexico’s
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the New Mexico average. 24% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 31% across New Mexico.
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 44% and 77% women
The Census survey reached too few of Butterfield Park’s residents to say more: its margin here is ±16.4 points. Across New Mexico, 50.3% of residents are women.
| Butterfield Park | NM | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 14.8% | 11% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 4.4% | 10.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 23.7% | 9.3% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 0% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 28.2% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 8.7% | 11.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 1.2% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 1.3% | 11.5% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 17.9% | 7.8% | 7% |
| No diploma | 3.8% | 12% | 10.4% |
| High school | 35.8% | 25.7% | 26% |
| Some college | 33.8% | 22.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 2.2% | 9.2% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 24.4% | 17.1% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 0% | 13.9% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,100, single groups can be off by several points
Everything we know about Butterfield Park
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Butterfield Park
About 3 of every 100 Butterfield Park residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Mexico.
100% of working residents leave Butterfield Park for work
Where Butterfield Park’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Butterfield Park
Census-designated place in New Mexico, United States
Butterfield Park is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, Butterfield Park had a population of 794. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The community is in eastern Doña Ana County, on the south side of U.S. Route 70, which leads southwest 11 miles (18 km) to Las Cruces and northeast 57 miles (92 km) to Alamogordo. It is located in Las Cruces Public Schools.
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- Area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Elevation
- 4,616 ft
Questions about Butterfield Park
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Butterfield Park, NM expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.