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Portales city, New Mexico: commercial real estate data.
Portales city is a Census city of 11,968 people across 8.03 square miles of land, in Roosevelt County. Median household income is $50,555, 47.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 11 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $3.0 m.
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Portales
What Portales is
- Census place typecity
- Land area8.03 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,491
- County holding the largest share of its areaRoosevelt 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.
Portales
How many people live in Portales
- Population11,968
- Median age27.1
- Population under 183,470
- Share under 1829.0 percent
- Population 65 and over1,462 plus or minus 292
- Share 65 and over12.2 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Households4,559
- Family households2,436
- Share of households that are families53.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Portales
Income and work in Portales
- Median household income$50,555
- Per capita income$21,996
- Civilian labor force5,350
- Employed4,956
- Unemployed394 plus or minus 137
- Unemployment rate7.4 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Adults 25 and over6,352
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher86.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher25.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree11.6 percent plus or minus 3.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Portales
Housing in Portales
- Housing units5,300
- Occupied units4,559
- Vacant units741 plus or minus 231
- Vacancy rate14.0 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Owner occupied2,168
- Renter occupied2,391
- Ownership rate47.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$133,400
- Median gross rent, monthly$903
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.4 percent
- Single family units3,742
- Share single family70.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more997 plus or minus 288
- Share in buildings of two or more18.8 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Mobile homes561 plus or minus 204
- Median year structure built1976
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Portales
How Portales gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute4,977
- Commuting under 15 minutes3,508
- Share commuting under 15 minutes70.5 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more680 plus or minus 290
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more13.7 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Drove alone81.5 percent
- Carpooled9.4 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked5.4 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Worked from home3.7 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Portales
SBA 7(a) lending to Portales borrowers
- Approvals11
- Gross approval$2,991,600
- Average approval$271,964
- Median approval$263,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$547,100
- Largest approval$600,000
- Jobs supported79
- Jobs per approval7.2
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS9
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 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.
Portales
SBA 504 lending to Portales borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$601,000
- Average approval$300,500
- Median approval$503,000
- Largest approval$503,000
- Jobs supported13
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Roosevelt County, not Portales
Roosevelt County context, not Portales figures
These are Roosevelt County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Portales measurements.
- Establishments in Roosevelt County330
- Employment at those establishments, Roosevelt County3,614
- Covered employment, Roosevelt County5,935
- Average annual pay, Roosevelt County$45,232
- Average weekly wage, Roosevelt County$870
- Housing units permitted, Roosevelt County31
- Of those, single family, Roosevelt County31
- County product, 2024, Roosevelt County$949,224,000
- County product change over the prior year, Roosevelt County4.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Roosevelt County$36,755
Every figure in this section is published for Roosevelt County as a whole and is not a measurement of Portales. 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.
- 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
Portales questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Portales, New Mexico?
11,968, in 4,559 households. Portales city covers 8.03 square miles of land, which is 1,491 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Portales in?
Roosevelt 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 Portales?
$50,555. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $133,400. Median gross rent is $903 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Portales businesses?
11 7(a) approvals totalling $3.0 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $263,000, plus 2 504 approvals worth $601,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Portales, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Portales borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Portales. only 0 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 Portales figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Roosevelt 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 Portales.
Is zoning published for Portales?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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