Census in New Mexico, Volume I


Households, 1990

                                                      Families Headed
                    Persons per    Married Couple     by a Female, No
                     Household       Families 1/     Husband Present 1/
 		   ------------    --------------    ------------------
 County            Rate    Rank*      %     Rank*        %      Rank*
  		   ----    -----    ----    -----      ----     -----
 NEW MEXICO        2.74      NA     56.0      NA       11.9       NA
 Bernalillo        2.55      23     51.0      32       11.9       10
 Catron            2.54      24     61.7       9        5.8       32
 Chaves            2.74      16     58.0      18       11.7       12
 Cibola            3.17       2     57.9      19       16.0        4
 Colfax            2.53      26     57.1      21       10.9       18
 Curry             2.72      18     61.5      10       11.1       17
 De Baca           2.41      32     59.7      13        7.9       29
 Dona Ana          2.92       6     57.8      20       12.0        9
 Eddy              2.74      16     62.5       7        9.9       24
 Grant             2.77      13     61.3      12       11.3       15
 Guadalupe         2.72      18     51.8      30       16.2        2
 Harding           2.49      30     58.3      17        7.1       31
 Hidalgo           2.92       6     62.4       8       10.5       20
 Lea               2.86       9     63.4       5       10.5       21
 Lincoln           2.48      31     58.8      15        9.6       26
 Los Alamos        2.50      29     66.6       1        5.0       33
 Luna              2.63      21     57.0      22       11.8       11
 McKinley          3.61       1     53.4      28       20.1        1
 Mora              2.79      12     56.4      23       12.4        8
 Otero             2.77      13     63.8       2        9.8       25
 Quay              2.53      26     58.6      16       10.1       23
 Rio Arriba        2.97       5     56.3      24       14.3        5
 Roosevelt         2.58      22     55.3      26       10.5       22
 Sandoval          3.02       4     63.6       3       11.5       14
 San Juan          3.16       3     61.3      11       13.0        7
 San Miguel        2.81      10     51.6      31       16.2        3
 Santa Fe          2.54      24     50.2      33       11.5       13
 Sierra            2.16      33     53.7      27        7.6       30
 Socorro           2.75      15     56.2      25       10.6       19
 Taos              2.64      20     52.4      29       13.2        6
 Torrance          2.80      11     63.0       6        9.0       28
 Union             2.52      28     59.2      14        9.0       27
 Valencia          2.89       8     63.5       4       11.1       16 


*   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/  Figures are percentages of total households.

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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