Best PlacesFort Wingate, NM Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Fort Wingate, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Fort Wingate ranks 48,363rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low disaster risk by a wide margin, and a weak job market ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Fort Wingate
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Fort Wingate's strengths and weaknesses
Where Fort Wingate ranks high
- Disaster safetyBetter than 99% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than 99% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 98% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 94% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 156 pleasant days a year, better than 94% of towns
Where Fort Wingate ranks low
- Local economyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 1% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 4% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than only 9% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Fort Wingate
A household needs to earn about $16,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Fort Wingate home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $63,066, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses a national 0.90% effective rate, since no local rate is published, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 2 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Fort Wingate
Fort Wingate runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Fort Wingate.
Who works in Fort Wingate, and how
Work in Fort Wingate centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 88%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Fort Wingate
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Fort Wingate.
What the weather is like in Fort Wingate, month by month
Fort Wingate sees roughly 156 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 47, with lows near 12. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 47° | 29° | 12° |
| April | 69° | 50° | 28° |
| July | 92° | 74° | 54° |
| October | 72° | 51° | 31° |
Flying in and out of Fort Wingate
Albuquerque International Sunport sits about 111 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 2.6 million passengers in 2025, with 69 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Fort Wingate
Schools across Fort Wingate average a C−, better than 26% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Crownpoint ElementaryB · 50% proficient
- Thoreau ElementaryD+ · 25% proficient
Top middle schools
- John F. Kennedy MiddleF · 10% proficient
Top high schools
- Miyamura High SchoolB · 50% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Fort Wingate school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Fort Wingate measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Fort Wingate against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Fort Wingate
Is Fort Wingate a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Fort Wingate ranks 48,363rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low disaster risk, low property taxes, and a stable housing market, and lowest on a weak job market and thin health care access. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Fort Wingate expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $60,206. The overall cost of living runs about 3% above the national average. Set against a $63,066 median income, cost of living beats 11% of towns.
Is Fort Wingate safe?
Fort Wingate is safer than 2% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $1,156 per resident a year.
Compare Fort Wingate with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Fort Wingate. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Fort Wingate represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Fort Wingate detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Fort Wingate: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Fort Wingate: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Fort Wingate: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Fort Wingate: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Fort Wingate detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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