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. 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.
The average trip to work in Butterfield Park is longer than in the typical New Mexico or U.S. town
Of the 74 New Mexico towns we compare, none has a lower share of working residents who work in town than Butterfield Park. 33% of residents live below the poverty line in the town, above both the New Mexico town median (21%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%). The top destinations are Las Cruces (55%), El Paso (5%) and Albuquerque (5%). Half of commuters travel less than 10 miles.
| Butterfield Park | New Mexico towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 73 minutes | 23 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 33% | 21% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.3% | 14% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Top of a low hazard risk in Butterfield Park: inland flooding
Of the losses FEMA expects in Butterfield Park, 68% come from inland flooding and 10% from heat waves. Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in 77% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Butterfield Park, expect mild winters and hot summers
Its typical July afternoon high comes in at 93°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
On CDC estimates, Butterfield Park is less healthy than three in five U.S. towns
A fifth of adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance in Butterfield Park, against 16% in New Mexico’s towns and 8.1% across U.S. towns. The share of adults in Butterfield Park who sleep under 7 hours: 31%. Among adults locally, 70% had a checkup this year and 24% worry about having enough food.
| 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
No age group stands out in Butterfield Park against New Mexico
New Mexico has 31% of adults 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree or more; here it is 24%. By age, Butterfield Park looks like New Mexico: each broad group is within 4 points.
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−.