Las MaravillasNM
Population 1,594: a town in New Mexico.
Is Las Maravillas a good place to live?
The best of Las Maravillas’ subject grades is an A− for cost of living; the weakest is a D for hazard risk. Las Maravillas’ mean commuting time is 37 minutes, against 23 minutes in New Mexico’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Only one of the 74 New Mexico towns we compare has a lower share of working residents who work in town than Las Maravillas. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 73% of U.S. towns. Las Maravillas has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
100% of working residents leave Las Maravillas for work
Where Las Maravillas’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Las Maravillas grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New Mexico), ordered by how far Las Maravillas is from typical.
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Moving to Las Maravillas: who provides what
Las Maravillas is unincorporated, so Valencia 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 Las Maravillas.
The biggest natural risk in Las Maravillas is inland flooding, at a very high overall level
86% of Las Maravillas’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by earthquakes at 6%. FEMA expects more storm and flood damage in the town than in 84% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Las Maravillas’ public schools trail 53% of New Mexico districts
Its public schools are run by the Los Lunas school district. Las Maravillas’ only public school teaches 393 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desert View ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 393 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NM on state tests and graduation
More than half of Las Maravillas’ working residents commute to Albuquerque
The top destinations are Albuquerque (51%), Los Lunas (11%) and Santa Fe (5%). Las Maravillas: one in ten residents live below the poverty line.
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
A younger population than New Mexico as a whole
People 65 and older are 8% of residents (19% statewide); children under 18 are 32% of residents (22% statewide). The median age in Las Maravillas is 30.7 years. Here, a quarter of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree, against 31% in New Mexico as a whole.
| Las Maravillas | New Mexico towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 8% | 17% | 18% |
| Median age | 30.7 years | 37.2 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 25% | 23% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 34% and 64% women
The Census survey reached too few of Las Maravillas’ residents to say more: its margin here is ±14.7 points. Across New Mexico, 50.3% of residents are women.
| Las Maravillas | NM | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 17.1% | 11% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 14.6% | 10.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 9% | 9.3% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 17.1% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.2% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 18.4% | 11.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 5.4% | 12.5% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 4.3% | 11.5% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 3.8% | 7.8% | 7% |
| No diploma | 9.6% | 12% | 10.4% |
| High school | 20.4% | 25.7% | 26% |
| Some college | 27.4% | 22.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 17.1% | 9.2% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 12.2% | 17.1% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 13.2% | 13.9% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,600, single groups can be off by several points
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
On CDC estimates, Las Maravillas is healthier than 63% of U.S. towns
Just over one in ten adults have diabetes in Las Maravillas. In Las Maravillas, 31% of adults have high blood pressure, and 15% binge drink.
| Las Maravillas | New Mexico towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 68% | 69% | 79% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 35% | 35% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 16% | 8.1% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 13% | 16% |
| What stands out | Las Maravillas | NM |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 9.1% | 11.2% |
| Fewer adults without reliable transportation | 9% | 11% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Las Maravillas has set aside 0.7% of its land for conservation
Parks and preserves in Las Maravillas: 2, covering 11 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Maravillas Park | — | 9 |
| 2. La Bonitas Park | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Las Maravillas
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Las Maravillas
About 4 of every 100 Las Maravillas residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across New Mexico.
About Las Maravillas
Census-designated place in New Mexico, United States
Las Maravillas is a census-designated place in Valencia County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, Las Maravillas had a population of 1,604.
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- Area
- 1.0 sq mi
Las Maravillas’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Las Maravillas.
| Town | NM rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Las Maravillas | — | — | A− | — | B− | B |
| Monterey Park | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Las Maravillas has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Las Maravillas reports no FBI crime data of its own. Monterey Park isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Las Maravillas with a neighbor →
Questions about Las Maravillas
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Las Maravillas, NM expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.