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Capitan village, New Mexico: commercial real estate data.
Capitan village is a Census village of 1,191 people across 3.26 square miles of land, in Lincoln County. Median household income is $52,864, 93.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $272,500.
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Capitan
What Capitan is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area3.26 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land365 plus or minus 104
- County holding the largest share of its areaLincoln County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Capitan
How many people live in Capitan
- Population1,191 plus or minus 340
- Median age57.6 plus or minus 14.9
- Population under 18257 plus or minus 116
- Share under 1821.6 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Population 65 and over379 plus or minus 153
- Share 65 and over31.8 percent plus or minus 9.0
- Households586 plus or minus 158
- Family households302 plus or minus 94
- Share of households that are families51.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Capitan
Income and work in Capitan
- Median household income$52,864
- Per capita income$41,409 plus or minus $13,751
- Civilian labor force494 plus or minus 202
- Employed462 plus or minus 187
- Unemployed32 plus or minus 40
- Unemployment rate6.5 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Adults 25 and over873 plus or minus 226
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher20.3 percent plus or minus 12.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree9.7 percent plus or minus 10.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Capitan
Housing in Capitan
- Housing units770 plus or minus 191
- Occupied units586 plus or minus 158
- Vacant units184 plus or minus 86
- Vacancy rate23.9 percent plus or minus 9.5
- Owner occupied549 plus or minus 154
- Renter occupied37 plus or minus 35
- Ownership rate93.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$111,700 plus or minus $37,606
- Single family units252 plus or minus 113
- Share single family32.7 percent plus or minus 12.2
- Units in buildings of two or more38 plus or minus 40
- Share in buildings of two or more4.9 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Mobile homes480 plus or minus 156
- Median year structure built1987
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Capitan gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute427 plus or minus 177
- Commuting under 15 minutes97 plus or minus 65
- Share commuting under 15 minutes22.7 percent plus or minus 12.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more313 plus or minus 158
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more73.3 percent plus or minus 20.9
- Drove alone89.2 percent plus or minus 51.5
- Carpooled5.9 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.4 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Worked from home3.6 percent plus or minus 4.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Capitan
SBA loans in Capitan (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$272,500
- Average approval$136,250
- Median approval$175,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$175,000
- Largest approval$175,000
- Jobs supported17
- Jobs per approval8.5
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Lincoln County, not Capitan
Lincoln County context, not Capitan figures
These are Lincoln County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Capitan measurements.
- Establishments in Lincoln County695
- Employment at those establishments, Lincoln County5,538
- Covered employment, Lincoln County6,782
- Average annual pay, Lincoln County$43,202
- Average weekly wage, Lincoln County$831
- Housing units permitted, Lincoln County92
- Of those, single family, Lincoln County88
- County product, 2024, Lincoln County$894,191,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lincoln County-3.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lincoln County$85,984
Every figure in this section is published for Lincoln County as a whole and is not a measurement of Capitan. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Capitan questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Capitan, New Mexico?
1,191, in 586 households. Capitan village covers 3.26 square miles of land, which is 365 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Capitan in?
Lincoln County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Capitan?
$52,864. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $111,700. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Capitan businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $272,500, across 1 lenders, median approval $175,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Capitan, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Capitan borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Capitan. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Capitan figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lincoln County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Capitan.
Is zoning published for Capitan?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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