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New Mexico: county data, all 33 of them.

Every New Mexico county has a data page built from federal sources, each figure carrying its publisher and period. What this page does not carry is the New Mexico statutory framework, and the reason is below rather than hidden.

Counties
33
Population
2,120,246
Land area
121,298 sq mi
Establishments
44,384
Combined county GDP
$147.08 bn
SBA approvals recorded
2,078

Read this first

This is a county directory, not a state guide.

The county pages below are complete. They carry demographics, growth and migration, economic output, employment and wages, business establishments by industry, the construction pipeline, the SBA lending record including charge off rates, geography and hazard. Every figure names its publisher and the period it describes.

What is missing is the New Mexico legal and regulatory frame: how zoning and land development codes work in this state, what the entitlement path looks like, which agencies permit what, and which statutes override local codes. That material requires a research pack for New Mexico, and no such pack exists yet.

Why there is no state guide here

You cannot write New Mexico zoning law from a population table. Everything on the county pages is derived from federal datasets that cover all counties equally; statutory analysis is not, and generating it anyway would produce confident text about the law that nothing behind it supports.

Florida and California have research packs and therefore have full state guides. The remaining eight, including this one, do not. That is stated rather than papered over.

Counties

All 33 New Mexico county-equivalents.

New Mexico counties: population, income, establishments and SBA activity
GeographyPopulationMedian incomeEstablishmentsCounty GDPSBA approvalsLand area, sq mi
Bernalillo County673,930$69,47316,349$54.83 bn8901,161
Catron County3,743$49,86474$144.2 m36,924
Chaves County64,217$52,9381,342$2.87 bn336,065
Cibola County26,845$50,759288$868.1 m114,539
Colfax County12,322$53,554372$623.5 m93,758
Curry County47,638$57,3091,018$4.32 bn651,405
De Baca County1,57649$110.9 m12,323
Doña Ana County224,266$56,8483,798$11.32 bnNone recorded3,808
Eddy County61,105$78,4261,551$11.32 bn1154,176
Grant County27,775$44,958533$1.41 bn213,962
Guadalupe County4,381$42,75091$277.8 m93,030
Harding County741$48,55311$47.3 mNone recorded2,125
Hidalgo County4,041$48,88291$254.9 m53,437
Lea County73,733$68,0151,730$12.86 bn1024,391
Lincoln County20,224$53,303695$894.2 m504,831
Los Alamos County19,435$147,139373$3.81 bn18109
Luna County25,611$36,419371$1.24 bn162,965
McKinley County70,431$47,668940$2.89 bn325,450
Mora County4,149$53,66357$161.6 mNone recorded1,931
Otero County68,816$55,876988$3.79 bn456,613
Quay County8,564$41,946214$353.6 m22,874
Rio Arriba County40,070$57,155541$1.38 bn215,861
Roosevelt County18,928$52,685330$949.2 m162,447
San Juan County120,942$55,8722,475$7.04 bn1075,513
San Miguel County26,850$49,431417$1.01 bn114,716
Sandoval County153,604$86,6361,928$6.13 bn1183,711
Santa Fe County156,105$79,0714,976$10.09 bn2551,909
Sierra County11,500$41,600222$423.0 m274,179
Socorro County16,200$36,570221$666.2 m86,647
Taos County34,543$58,9501,083$1.52 bn362,203
Torrance County15,490$57,842205$881.3 m103,345
Union County4,013$46,69489$178.4 m33,824
Valencia County78,458$58,933962$2.43 bn391,066

The register

Every source behind these 33 pages.

SourcePeriod coveredLicence
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates2020-2024 5-yearUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024Vintage 2024, estimates 2020 to 2024US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2CAGDP2, through 2024US Bureau of Economic Analysis, public domain
US EPA, Map of Radon Zones, county spreadsheet2024-05 publication, EPA 402/A-16/001US EPA, public domain
FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Community Status BookCommunity Status Book, as retrievedFEMA OpenFEMA, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA releaseFY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA releaseFY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary verticesTIGER county boundariesUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns2023US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages2024 annual averagesUS BLS, public domain
US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey2024 annualUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows2021 to 2022 filing yearsIRS SOI, public domain

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