Census in New Mexico, Volume I

Race and Ethnicity of Persons

                         Total Minority 1/            Hispanic 2/
  		  -------------------------------    -------------
                       1980             1990             1990
		  -------------     -------------    -------------
 County             %     Rank*      %      Rank*       %    Rank*
 		  ----    -----     ----    -----    -----   -----
 NEW MEXICO       47.4     NA       49.6     NA       38.2     NA
 Bernalillo       43.1     18       44.2     19       37.1     17
 Catron           30.6     27       29.5     31       28.4     24
 Chaves           33.9     22       39.9     21       36.8     18
 Cibola 3/        63.3      7       72.7      6       34.1     20
 Colfax           48.7     14       49.2     16       47.9     11
 Curry            28.4     28       32.9     28       23.7     30
 De Baca          31.5     26       34.3     26       32.7     22
 Dona Ana         55.5     11       59.3      9       56.4      6
 Eddy             33.1     23       37.8     23       35.3     19
 Grant            52.6     13       52.2     12       50.8      7
 Guadalupe        83.5      3       85.6      2       84.3      2
 Harding          44.9     17       47.6     18       46.7     14
 Hidalgo          48.0     15       51.0     13       50.1      9
 Lea              26.9     30       35.3     25       29.8     23
 Lincoln          28.0     29       29.7     30       28.0     25
 Los Alamos       13.9     33       14.6     33       11.1     33
 Luna             41.7     20       49.7     15       47.6     13
 McKinley         79.7      5       84.2      4       12.8     32
 Mora             87.1      1       85.6      3       85.0      1
 Otero            33.0     24       35.9     24       23.8     29
 Quay             37.8     21       40.0     20       37.5     16
 Rio Arriba       85.5      2       87.3      1       72.6      4
 Roosevelt        24.7     32       29.9     29       27.2     27
 Sandoval         56.1     10       48.8     17       27.4     26
 San Juan         45.4     16       50.0     14       13.1     31
 San Miguel       82.7      4       81.8      5       79.6      3
 Santa Fe         59.2      8       53.0     11       49.5     10
 Sierra           26.1     31       25.2     32       24.0     28
 Socorro          58.1      9       59.6      8       47.8     12
 Taos             76.1      6       72.3      7       64.9      5
 Torrance         42.7     19       39.5     22       37.8     15
 Union            31.7     25       34.1     27       33.7     21
 Valencia 3/      54.3     12       54.3     10       50.3      8


*    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/   The "Total Minority" category consists of those persons who did
     not classify themselves as non-Hispanic White.  In other words,
     the "Total Minority" group includes all "non-Anglos".

2/   Persons of Hispanic Origin may be of any race and are included
     in the "Total Minority" category.

3/   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.

Note:  Figures are percentages of the total population.

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.