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.