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Census Bureau Releases City, Town & Village Population Estimates for 2016

On May 25, 2017 the US Census Bureau released the 2016 population estimates for 162 cities, towns and villages across New Mexico. Over the last year New Mexico experienced minimal population growth reaching a total population of 2,081,015. This represents an increase of just 687 people or less than 1/10^th of a percent since 2015.  However, local communities did see bigger gains or losses in population.

The top five areas which had the greatest growth (in percentage terms) from 2015 to 2016 are Bernalillo town (4.3%), Sunland Park city (3.5%), Rio Rancho city (2.2%), Reserve village (1.8%) and Alamogordo city (1.6%). The top 5 area’s in 2016 with the greatest population growth since 2010 were Sunland Park city (15.6%), Hobbs city (11.9%), Carlsbad city (10.4%), Bernalillo town (10.3%), and Rio Rancho city (9.2%).

The five areas with the largest rate of decline from 2015 to 2016 include Aztec city (-3.1%), Eunice city (-3.1%), Bloomfiled city (-3.1%), Roy village (-4.7%) and Mosquero village (-5.3%). The 5 area’s in 2016 with the greatest population decline since 2010 were Eagle Nest village (-11.4%), Cimarron village (-11.6%), Aztec city (-11.9%), Kirtland town (-12.1%), and Bloomfield city (-12.7%).

For New Mexico in 2016 the top five cities by population were Albuquerque (557,448), Las Cruces (101,435), Rio Rancho (93,930), Santa Fe  (83,286) and Roswell (48,367).  The top four cities all had positive growth with Rio Rancho posting the fastest growth out of the group at 2.2 percent; as a result, the population in Rio Rancho went from 93,930 persons in 2015 up to 96,028 persons in 2016. Meanwhile, the 5th most populous city, Roswell, experienced a decline of 0.4 percent from 48,367 persons in 2015 down to 48,184 persons.

The 2016 places with the smallest populations on the list in New Mexico were Encino village (77), Taos Ski Valley village (69), House village (63), Folsom village (54) and Grenville village (34). Only two places with populations below 500 persons posted population increases greater than zero; those places are San Ysidro village (197) and Red River town (477).

 

New Mexico City, Town and Village Population Estimates 2016

Area	CENSUS 2010 POP	ESTIMATES BASE 2010	POP ESTIMATE 2010	POP ESTIMATE 2011	POP ESTIMATE 2012	POP ESTIMATE 2013	POP ESTIMATE 2014	POP ESTIMATE 2015	POP ESTIMATE 2016
Bernalillo County	662,564	662,547	664,109	669,295	672,685	674,460	674,829	674,959	676,953
Albuquerque city	545,852	546,135	546,865	551,338	554,449	556,239	556,971	557,448	559,277
Edgewood town (pt.)	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Los Ranchos de Albuquerque village	6,024	6,029	6,035	6,074	6,089	6,089	6,069	6,053	6,062
Rio Rancho city (pt.)	130	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Tijeras village	541	542	542	545	547	547	545	543	543
Balance of Bernalillo County	110,013	109,835	110,661	111,332	111,594	111,579	111,238	110,909	111,065
Catron County	3,725	3,729	3,739	3,715	3,651	3,580	3,538	3,459	3,508
Reserve village	289	292	293	291	286	280	277	271	276
Balance of Catron County	3,436	3,437	3,446	3,424	3,365	3,300	3,261	3,188	3,232
Chaves County	65,645	65,651	65,753	65,646	65,705	65,861	65,672	65,529	65,282
Dexter town	1,266	1,266	1,268	1,266	1,270	1,273	1,269	1,267	1,264
Hagerman town	1,257	1,251	1,253	1,251	1,255	1,258	1,254	1,249	1,244
Lake Arthur town	436	436	437	436	436	438	436	435	433
Roswell city	48,366	48,411	48,485	48,420	48,442	48,573	48,453	48,367	48,184
Balance of Chaves County	14,320	14,287	14,310	14,273	14,302	14,319	14,260	14,211	14,157
Cibola County	27,213	27,215	27,314	27,508	27,316	27,439	27,303	27,322	27,487
Grants city	9,182	9,177	9,210	9,283	9,222	9,269	9,228	9,239	9,298
Milan village	3,245	3,212	3,228	3,240	3,225	3,233	3,217	3,217	3,234
Balance of Cibola County	14,786	14,826	14,876	14,985	14,869	14,937	14,858	14,866	14,955
Colfax County	13,750	13,750	13,736	13,614	13,226	13,039	12,674	12,387	12,253
Angel Fire village	1,216	1,216	1,216	1,210	1,180	1,168	1,140	1,119	1,113
Cimarron village	1,021	1,019	1,017	1,008	977	962	933	910	899
Eagle Nest village	290	290	290	287	278	274	266	260	257
Maxwell village	254	253	253	250	243	239	232	227	225
Raton city	6,885	6,885	6,877	6,811	6,611	6,514	6,325	6,176	6,103
Springer town	1,047	1,047	1,046	1,036	1,006	990	963	940	929
Balance of Colfax County	3,037	3,040	3,037	3,012	2,931	2,892	2,815	2,755	2,727
Curry County	48,376	48,376	48,959	49,699	50,690	50,574	50,969	50,206	50,280
Clovis city	37,775	37,799	38,277	38,939	39,468	39,416	39,852	39,290	39,373
Grady village	107	107	108	109	110	108	108	106	106
Melrose village	651	653	660	666	668	661	659	643	642
Texico city	1,130	1,133	1,144	1,155	1,160	1,145	1,138	1,112	1,110
Balance of Curry County	8,713	8,684	8,770	8,830	9,284	9,244	9,212	9,055	9,049
De Baca County	2,022	2,022	2,019	1,972	1,941	1,893	1,823	1,831	1,793
Fort Sumner village	1,031	1,031	1,029	1,006	990	965	930	934	915
Balance of De Baca County	991	991	990	966	951	928	893	897	878
Doña Ana County	209,233	209,235	210,203	212,869	214,162	213,651	213,536	213,567	214,207
Anthony city	A	9,510	9,535	9,592	9,610	9,516	9,441	9,380	9,330
Hatch village	1,648	1,618	1,621	1,628	1,630	1,609	1,600	1,594	1,590
Las Cruces city	97,618	97,643	98,297	100,198	101,141	101,308	101,488	101,435	101,759
Mesilla town	2,196	1,895	1,899	1,909	1,913	1,891	1,877	1,865	1,855
Sunland Park city	14,106	14,240	14,317	14,605	14,815	15,154	15,483	15,978	16,544
Balance of Doña Ana County	93,665	84,329	84,534	84,937	85,053	84,173	83,647	83,315	83,129
Eddy County	53,829	53,829	53,906	54,045	54,424	55,599	56,591	57,611	57,621
Artesia city	11,301	11,317	11,343	11,406	11,383	11,497	11,880	12,043	12,232
Carlsbad city	26,138	26,159	26,190	26,262	26,722	27,681	28,145	28,930	28,914
Hope village	105	105	105	105	105	105	107	107	107
Loving village	1,413	1,384	1,385	1,386	1,381	1,390	1,404	1,410	1,395
Balance of Eddy County	14,872	14,864	14,883	14,886	14,833	14,926	15,055	15,121	14,973
Grant County	29,514	29,514	29,399	29,393	29,320	29,241	28,988	28,564	28,280
Bayard city	2,328	2,337	2,327	2,327	2,320	2,314	2,295	2,261	2,235
Hurley town	1,297	1,297	1,291	1,291	1,288	1,284	1,272	1,253	1,240
Santa Clara village	1,686	1,824	1,817	1,816	1,812	1,807	1,792	1,768	1,751
Silver City town	10,315	10,315	10,277	10,278	10,256	10,231	10,137	9,991	9,907
Balance of Grant County	13,888	13,741	13,687	13,681	13,644	13,605	13,492	13,291	13,147
Guadalupe County	4,687	4,687	4,692	4,651	4,612	4,549	4,445	4,364	4,376
Santa Rosa city	2,848	2,850	2,853	2,830	2,808	2,774	2,715	2,671	2,680
Vaughn town	446	446	446	442	438	431	421	412	412
Balance of Guadalupe County	1,393	1,391	1,393	1,379	1,366	1,344	1,309	1,281	1,284
Harding County	695	695	687	711	698	688	680	699	665
Mosquero village (pt.)	93	93	92	95	93	92	91	94	89
Roy village	234	234	231	239	235	232	229	235	224
Balance of Harding County	368	368	364	377	370	364	360	370	352
Hidalgo County	4,894	4,895	4,855	4,840	4,785	4,616	4,539	4,414	4,302
Lordsburg city	2,797	2,797	2,774	2,767	2,735	2,641	2,597	2,526	2,463
Virden village	152	151	150	149	148	142	140	137	133
Balance of Hidalgo County	1,945	1,947	1,931	1,924	1,902	1,833	1,802	1,751	1,706
Lea County	64,727	64,727	64,623	65,037	66,182	68,164	69,707	70,848	69,749
Eunice city	2,922	2,922	2,917	2,932	2,987	3,070	3,131	3,120	3,022
Hobbs city	34,122	34,131	34,072	34,336	34,930	36,048	36,957	38,232	38,143
Jal city	2,047	2,047	2,043	2,055	2,093	2,153	2,198	2,189	2,121
Lovington city	11,009	11,017	11,003	11,061	11,261	11,573	11,802	11,756	11,399
Tatum town	798	798	796	800	814	838	855	853	827
Balance of Lea County	13,829	13,812	13,792	13,853	14,097	14,482	14,764	14,698	14,237
Lincoln County	20,497	20,497	20,463	20,394	20,198	19,979	19,635	19,391	19,429
Capitan village	1,489	1,495	1,491	1,482	1,464	1,443	1,413	1,391	1,388
Carrizozo town	996	996	994	989	980	968	952	939	938
Corona village	172	172	172	171	169	167	164	162	162
Ruidoso village	8,029	8,027	8,021	8,018	7,960	7,899	7,792	7,724	7,770
Ruidoso Downs city	2,815	2,792	2,785	2,761	2,723	2,682	2,624	2,581	2,576
Balance of Lincoln County	6,996	7,015	7,000	6,973	6,902	6,820	6,690	6,594	6,595
Los Alamos County	17,950	17,950	18,012	18,174	18,149	17,817	17,668	17,696	18,147
Luna County	25,095	25,095	25,108	25,135	24,983	24,686	24,540	24,476	24,450
Columbus village	1,664	1,664	1,665	1,668	1,659	1,636	1,627	1,624	1,623
Deming city	14,855	14,848	14,853	14,858	14,757	14,603	14,526	14,496	14,488
Balance of Luna County	8,576	8,583	8,590	8,609	8,567	8,447	8,387	8,356	8,339
McKinley County	71,492	71,488	71,743	73,488	72,691	73,270	74,044	76,800	74,923
Gallup city	21,678	21,783	21,845	22,348	22,062	22,220	22,435	23,244	22,670
Balance of McKinley County	49,814	49,705	49,898	51,140	50,629	51,050	51,609	53,556	52,253
Mora County	4,881	4,881	4,884	4,781	4,675	4,665	4,571	4,577	4,504
Wagon Mound village	314	314	314	307	301	300	295	295	291
Balance of Mora County	4,567	4,567	4,570	4,474	4,374	4,365	4,276	4,282	4,213
Otero County	63,797	63,799	64,356	65,494	66,016	65,813	64,994	64,430	65,410
Alamogordo city	30,403	30,415	30,687	31,253	31,506	31,404	31,050	30,796	31,283
Cloudcroft village	674	673	679	691	695	695	689	683	693
Tularosa village	2,842	2,843	2,868	2,919	2,941	2,928	2,893	2,867	2,912
Balance of Otero County	29,878	29,868	30,122	30,631	30,874	30,786	30,362	30,084	30,522
Quay County	9,041	9,041	9,064	9,082	8,816	8,687	8,454	8,452	8,365
House village	68	68	68	68	66	65	64	64	63
Logan village	1,042	1,042	1,044	1,044	1,012	996	967	966	954
San Jon village	216	216	217	217	211	208	202	202	201
Tucumcari city	5,363	5,363	5,377	5,392	5,236	5,161	5,025	5,025	4,975
Balance of Quay County	2,352	2,352	2,358	2,361	2,291	2,257	2,196	2,195	2,172
Rio Arriba County	40,246	40,244	40,310	40,313	40,254	40,058	39,742	39,526	40,040
Chama village	1,022	1,022	1,023	1,024	1,023	1,018	1,010	1,005	1,018
Española city (pt.)	6,966	6,976	6,982	6,967	6,940	6,895	6,828	6,784	6,864
Balance of Rio Arriba County	32,258	32,246	32,305	32,322	32,291	32,145	31,904	31,737	32,158
Roosevelt County	19,846	19,840	20,007	20,461	20,341	19,996	19,599	19,074	19,082
Causey village	104	104	105	107	105	103	101	98	98
Dora village	133	133	134	137	135	132	129	125	125
Elida town	197	197	198	202	200	196	191	186	185
Floyd village	133	121	122	124	123	120	117	114	114
Portales city	12,280	12,265	12,372	12,681	12,656	12,481	12,265	11,960	11,989
Balance of Roosevelt County	6,999	7,020	7,076	7,210	7,122	6,964	6,796	6,591	6,571
Sandoval County	131,561	131,578	132,370	134,246	135,383	136,482	137,540	139,157	142,025
Bernalillo town	8,320	8,306	8,340	8,382	8,386	8,380	8,604	8,822	9,202
Corrales village	8,329	8,318	8,356	8,419	8,436	8,445	8,412	8,476	8,586
Cuba village	731	730	733	737	738	736	734	734	740
Edgewood town (pt.)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Jemez Springs village	250	250	251	252	252	253	252	252	255
Rio Rancho city (pt.)	87,391	87,359	87,955	89,538	90,610	91,687	92,620	93,928	96,026
San Ysidro village	193	193	194	195	195	195	195	195	197
Balance of Sandoval County	26,347	26,422	26,541	26,723	26,766	26,786	26,723	26,750	27,019
San Juan County	130,044	130,045	130,135	127,991	128,331	126,518	124,055	118,701	115,079
Aztec city	6,763	6,757	6,765	6,659	6,672	6,566	6,441	6,153	5,960
Bloomfield city	8,112	8,112	8,118	7,949	7,948	7,826	7,665	7,320	7,090
Farmington city	45,877	45,965	46,046	45,573	45,876	45,383	44,612	42,850	41,629
Kirtland town	A	642	642	630	631	621	609	582	564
Balance of San Juan County	69,292	68,569	68,564	67,180	67,204	66,122	64,728	61,796	59,836
San Miguel County	29,393	29,393	29,401	29,335	29,026	28,696	28,318	27,951	27,760
Las Vegas city	13,753	14,055	14,059	14,034	13,895	13,740	13,559	13,380	13,285
Mosquero village (pt.)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Pecos village	1,392	1,392	1,392	1,389	1,373	1,357	1,339	1,322	1,313
Balance of San Miguel County	14,248	13,946	13,950	13,912	13,758	13,599	13,420	13,249	13,162
Santa Fe County	144,170	144,172	144,465	145,378	146,157	146,754	147,329	147,708	148,651
Edgewood town (pt.)	3,731	3,729	3,738	3,753	3,768	3,774	3,783	3,782	3,801
Española city (pt.)	3,258	3,256	3,259	3,265	3,270	3,270	3,269	3,263	3,274
Santa Fe city	67,947	80,882	81,034	81,645	82,102	82,528	82,925	83,286	83,875
Balance of Santa Fe County	69,234	56,305	56,434	56,715	57,017	57,182	57,352	57,377	57,701
Sierra County	11,988	11,994	12,030	12,026	11,881	11,561	11,315	11,261	11,191
Elephant Butte city	1,431	1,431	1,436	1,437	1,421	1,384	1,354	1,348	1,341
Truth or Consequences city	6,475	6,474	6,491	6,481	6,399	6,225	6,093	6,062	6,023
Williamsburg village	449	450	451	452	447	435	426	424	421
Balance of Sierra County	3,633	3,639	3,652	3,656	3,614	3,517	3,442	3,427	3,406
Socorro County	17,866	17,860	17,803	17,817	17,524	17,525	17,320	17,222	17,027
Magdalena village	938	940	937	939	924	925	914	909	898
Socorro city	9,051	9,043	9,013	9,014	8,861	8,858	8,756	8,706	8,612
Balance of Socorro County	7,877	7,877	7,853	7,864	7,739	7,742	7,650	7,607	7,517
Taos County	32,937	32,940	32,904	32,931	32,817	32,991	33,046	32,887	33,065
Questa village	1,770	1,770	1,767	1,769	1,762	1,770	1,767	1,751	1,754
Red River town	477	477	476	477	476	479	478	475	477
Taos town	5,716	5,719	5,713	5,713	5,692	5,720	5,762	5,739	5,763
Taos Ski Valley village	69	69	69	69	69	70	69	69	69
Balance of Taos County	24,905	24,905	24,879	24,903	24,818	24,952	24,970	24,853	25,002
Torrance County	16,383	16,381	16,379	16,400	16,074	15,681	15,514	15,422	15,302
Encino village	82	82	82	82	81	79	78	78	77
Estancia town	1,655	1,655	1,655	1,657	1,635	1,610	1,598	1,592	1,584
Moriarty city	1,910	1,910	1,909	1,914	1,875	1,829	1,810	1,799	1,786
Mountainair town	928	928	928	930	911	888	878	873	866
Willard village	253	253	253	253	248	242	240	239	238
Balance of Torrance County	11,555	11,553	11,552	11,564	11,324	11,033	10,910	10,841	10,751
Union County	4,549	4,554	4,547	4,438	4,432	4,372	4,271	4,201	4,183
Clayton town	2,980	2,982	2,978	2,913	2,911	2,876	2,815	2,773	2,763
Des Moines village	143	141	141	137	136	134	131	128	128
Folsom village	56	59	59	57	57	56	55	54	54
Grenville village	38	38	38	37	37	36	35	35	34
Balance of Union County	1,332	1,334	1,331	1,294	1,291	1,270	1,235	1,211	1,204
Valencia County	76,569	76,574	76,781	76,877	76,639	76,288	75,775	75,636	75,626
Belen city	7,269	7,272	7,288	7,290	7,269	7,229	7,169	7,140	7,122
Bosque Farms village	3,904	3,907	3,914	3,911	3,895	3,876	3,844	3,828	3,820
Los Lunas village	14,835	14,933	15,023	15,218	15,267	15,249	15,175	15,292	15,454
Peralta town	3,660	3,660	3,667	3,661	3,643	3,623	3,591	3,576	3,565
Rio Communities city	A	4,729	4,740	4,741	4,724	4,705	4,680	4,667	4,653
Balance of Valencia County	46,901	42,073	42,149	42,056	41,841	41,606	41,316	41,133	41,012

 

The US Census Bureau Population Estimate Program is the official source for intercensal population estimates. The Census Bureau released the 2010-2016 estimates on City and Towns (incorporated place and minor civil division) May 25, 2017 at: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/cb17-81-population-estimates-subcounty.html

The Population Estimate Programs next release will be for National and State population and demographic components of population change for July 1, 2017  in December 2017.

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