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Rising inflation, accessing healthcare and making ends meet were the biggest concerns facing New Mexico families, according to a recent Journal poll.

The poll, which asked 鈥渨hat is the biggest concern facing your family right now,鈥� found about 47% of likely voters said inflation and cost of living was the biggest concern facing their family, 17% said healthcare access and insurance while another 16% said financial insecurity.

Brian Sanderoff, president of Albuquerque-based Research & Polling Inc., which conducted the poll, said they presented the question as open-ended. Normally, he said, pollsters ask "what's the biggest concern facing the state? What's the biggest concern facing your community?鈥�

鈥淲e're asking a different kind of question: What's facing your family tonight? Well, I just went and filled up my tank, and it cost me $20 more鈥� My doctor retired, and I'm having trouble finding a new doctor,鈥� Sanderoff said. 鈥淲hen you ask about what鈥檚 facing your family right now, it changes the context, and that itself is interesting, as compared to asking more of a global question: Well, what's the biggest problem facing the state?鈥�

Crime, education issues and immigration issues followed as the next biggest concerns facing their family, with 8%, 7% and 6%, respectively.

Sanderoff said the demographic variations in the poll were 鈥渘ot that dramatic鈥� between political affiliations and regions of the state, unlike polls on political candidates.

Money is top of mind for many as inflation has spiked to levels unseen since the pandemic while the current Iran war has pushed gas prices from $2.64 a gallon at the start of the conflict to $3.61 at the end of August.

About 53% of Democrats pointed to inflation as the biggest concern compared to 40% of Republicans, according to the poll. With healthcare, 20% of Democrats said it was their biggest concern compared with 12% of Republicans.

鈥淲hen it comes to crime, education, and immigration, Republicans were slightly more likely to mention those things than Democrats,鈥� Sanderoff said.

About 14% of Republicans identified crime as the biggest concern, compared with about 4% of Democrats, according to the poll. Education and immigration were named as the top concern by 10% of Republicans, compared with 6% and 5% of Democrats.

Sanderoff said those results were interesting but also not surprising.

鈥淲hen it comes to crime, you think of your legislators, you hear the Republicans being tougher on crime in their pronouncements compared to the Democrats and wanting to pass tougher legislation,鈥� he said. 鈥淒emocrats are slightly more likely than Republicans to mention inflation and health.鈥�

There were some variances depending on where polled voters were living.

About 12% of those living in Albuquerque 鈥� which sees the most crime publicity and some of the highest crime rates 鈥� mentioned crime as the biggest concern facing their family.

鈥淎nd then it's hardly mentioned in other places,鈥� Sanderoff said.

When it comes to gender, women were nearly twice as likely to mention healthcare as the biggest concern facing their family, 21% compared to 11% of men. When looking at ethnicity, 22% of Caucasians said healthcare was a top concern versus 9% Hispanics.

Methodology

The Journal Poll was conducted from Aug. 21 through Aug. 28. It is based on a statewide random sample of 516 voters who cast ballots in the 2022 and/or 2024 general elections, and a sample of adults who registered to vote since January 2025 and who said they are likely to vote in the upcoming election.

The total sample of 516 voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.3 percentage points. The margin of error grows for subsamples.

The sample was stratified by race/ethnicity and county and weighted by party affiliation, gender and education level based on traditional voting patterns in New Mexico general elections, to ensure a more representative sample.

All interviews were conducted by live, professional interviewers based in Albuquerque, with multiple callbacks to households that did not initially answer the phone.

Both cellphone numbers (96%) and landlines (4%) of likely general election voters were used.