New Mexico
New Mexico: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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New Mexico at a glance
Rolled up from the 20 regions inside New Mexico on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Who leads New Mexico, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-10 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
- Population
- 2,125,498 persons (2025-07) ↗
- Unemployment
- 4.7 % (seasonally adjusted, preliminary) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 70,342 USD (2025 ACS 1-year, MOE ±1,508) (2025) ↗
- Home ownership
- 71 % (CPS/HVS annual; 11 months, Oct 2025 not collected) (2025) ↗
- Real GDP (chained dollars)
- 120,900 USD millions (real, chained 2017 dollars) (2025) ↗
- Debt per person with a credit report
- 49,300 USD per adult with a credit score (NY Fed Consumer Credit Panel via USAFacts) (2025) ↗
Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
| City / metro | Price | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque (Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors / Southwest MLS area) ↗ | 386,990 USD | median sale (first page of the report, which lists Attached Homes separately on page 2, so this is presumably detached homes) | 2026-09 |
Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
| Language | Share | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish ↗ | 28.5% | most often at home (population 5+, 2010 Census as cited by Wikipedia; not current ACS) | 2010 |
| Navajo ↗ | 3.5% | most often at home (population 5+, 2010 Census as cited by Wikipedia; not current ACS) | 2010 |
| English and Spanish ↗ | official status: no official language; English and Spanish are working languages | 2026 |
Largest companies in New Mexico
Ranked by the measure shown, from the cited ranking or filing.
| Company | Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| TXNM Energy (formerly PNM Resources), Albuquerque ↗ | revenue | 2.166 USD billions (FY2025 electric operating revenues, $2,165,606 thousand) | 2025 |
Worth knowing
- 2026-11Deb Haaland (D), a Laguna Pueblo citizen and former U.S. Interior Secretary, won the Nov 3, 2026 governor's race over Republican Gregg Hull, a former Rio Rancho mayor. She becomes the first Native American woman elected governor of any U.S. state. Unofficial count: 57.2% to 42.8%. ↗
- 2025-07New Mexico's population fell by 1,276 between July 2024 and July 2025, to 2,125,498 (Census Vintage 2025). ↗
- 2025Median household income was $70,342 in the 2025 ACS, against $84,780 for the U.S. The 1.0% rise from 2024 was not statistically significant. ↗
- 2025The homeownership rate was 71.0% in 2025, against 65.2% nationally (CPS/HVS). ↗
- 2025-05In 2025, Blackstone's infrastructure business agreed to acquire Albuquerque-based TXNM Energy, owner of PNM and TNMP, at an enterprise value of $11.5 billion. ↗
- 2025Government was the largest contributor to New Mexico's real GDP in 2025 at $24.3 billion, followed by mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction. ↗
Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
- Spanish491,275 · 23.2%
- Other and unspecified languages94,605 · 4.5%
- Other Indo-European languages9,659 · 0.5%
- German or other West Germanic languages6,117 · 0.3%
- Tagalog (incl. Filipino)5,708 · 0.3%
- Vietnamese4,976 · 0.2%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages4,782 · 0.2%
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)4,547 · 0.2%
Largest places in New Mexico
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Albuquerque, New Mexico full562,488
- 2.Las Cruces, New Mexico full111,385
- 3.Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA full104,046
- 4.Santa Fe, New Mexico full87,505
- 5.Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA full31,384
- 6.Los Alamos, New Mexico full13,200
- 7.Las Vegas, New Mexico full13,120
- 8.Silver City, NM10,315
- 9.Socorro, New Mexico8,707
- 10.Ruidoso, New Mexico, USA full7,679
- 11.Truth or Consequences, NM6,052
- 12.Tucumcari, New Mexico full5,278
- 13.Chimayo, New Mexico, USA3,177
Inside New Mexico
20 regions have New Mexico as their parent.
- Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA
- Chimayo, New Mexico, USA town
- Clovis, New Mexico, USA
- Espanola, New Mexico, USA
- Farmington, New Mexico, USA
- Gallup, New Mexico, USA
- Las Cruces, New Mexico
- Las Vegas, New Mexico
- Los Alamos, New Mexico town
- Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
- Roswell, New Mexico, USA
- Ruidoso, New Mexico, USA town
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Silver City, NM
- Socorro, New Mexico town
- Taos (Ski Valley), New Mexico, USA
- Truth or Consequences, NM
- Tucumcari, New Mexico
Companies based in New Mexico
112 companies in the Research Upon directory have their headquarters somewhere in New Mexico. Search them by name or industry.
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of New Mexico are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.