Total Housing Units
% Change
1980 1990 1980-1990
---------------- ---------------- --------------
County Number Rank* Number Rank* % Rank*
------- ----- ------- ----- ----- -----
NEW MEXICO 507,513 NA 632,058 NA 24.5 NA
Bernalillo 162,126 1 201,235 1 24.1 11
Catron 1,396 31 1,552 31 11.2 23
Chaves 20,823 6 23,386 6 12.3 21
Cibola 1/ 10,900 14 9,692 18 -11.1 33
Colfax 6,896 19 8,265 19 19.9 13
Curry 16,213 10 16,906 11 4.3 28
De Baca 1,350 32 1,329 32 -1.6 32
Dona Ana 33,944 2 49,148 2 44.8 5
Eddy 18,154 7 20,134 10 10.9 25
Grant 9,631 17 11,349 16 17.8 16
Guadalupe 2,143 29 2,149 30 0.3 31
Harding 553 33 614 33 11.0 24
Hidalgo 2,326 27 2,413 28 3.7 29
Lea 21,083 5 23,333 7 10.7 26
Lincoln 9,739 16 12,622 14 29.6 7
Los Alamos 6,585 20 7,565 21 14.9 19
Luna 6,290 22 7,766 20 23.5 12
McKinley 18,128 8 20,933 9 15.5 17
Mora 2,105 30 2,486 27 18.1 15
Otero 17,961 9 23,177 8 29.0 9
Quay 4,914 24 5,576 25 13.5 20
Rio Arriba 11,107 13 14,357 13 29.3 8
Roosevelt 6,510 21 6,902 22 6.0 27
Sandoval 12,286 11 23,667 5 92.6 1
San Juan 29,730 3 34,248 4 15.2 18
San Miguel 9,904 15 11,066 17 11.7 22
Santa Fe 28,314 4 41,464 3 46.4 4
Sierra 5,392 23 6,457 23 19.8 14
Socorro 4,636 25 6,289 24 35.7 6
Taos 9,341 18 12,020 15 28.7 10
Torrance 3,309 26 4,878 26 47.4 2
Union 2,271 28 2,299 29 1.2 30
Valencia 1/ 11,453 12 16,781 12 46.5 3
* Rankings are based on unrounded numbers. Therefore, identical rounded
values may appear in the table, but ranks may differ. However, in the
case of a true tie, counties share the same rank and the next lower rank
is omitted.
NA Not applicable.
1/ Cibola County was organized from a portion of Valencia County in July 1981.
Therefore, 1980 population characteristics are not explicitly available for
Cibola or "new" Valencia counties. Instead, 1980 figures for the two
counties were estimated by aggregating data for census county divisions
(CCDs). The CCDs are subcounty areas that can be summed to approximate
the current boundaries of each county. These approximate 1980 boundaries
are not identical to the 1990 county boundaries. However, the boundary
errors are fairly minor and occur in relatively unpopulated areas.
Therefore, the 1980 data for the approximated counties are reasonably
comparable to the 1990 data for the actual counties. The sum of Fence
Lake, Grants, Laguna and Zuni-Ramah CCDs approximates Cibola County,
while the Belen and Los Lunas CCDs approximate Valencia County.
Source: Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of New Mexico,
Census in New Mexico, Volume 1; and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of
the Census, 1980 and 1990 Censuses.
Table Prepared by: Bureau of Business and Economic Research,
University of New Mexico.
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