Town · Grant County, New Mexico

Hurley, New Mexico

Hurley is a town in Grant County, New Mexico, part of the Silver City, NM metro area. It has 1,044 residents. Hurley, New Mexico has a quality-of-life score of 12 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,822 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New Mexico it ranks #78 of 163 cities and towns. It ranks best on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low), preventable hospital stays (low) and mental health providers (high). It ranks worst on drought exposure (high), drug overdose deaths (high) and median household income (low).

12Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,822 of 15,651 cities and towns
New Mexico: #78 of 163 in NM
Population: 1,044 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,023.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 3533850

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 70 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety3#15,237/15,637
Economy17#12,983/15,631
Housing64#5,367/14,977
Health23#11,954/15,609
Healthcare22#12,214/15,650
Environment66#5,261/15,453
Education18#12,792/15,649
Infrastructure4#15,033/15,650
Community21#12,373/15,651
Leisure & amenities19#12,670/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Hurley, New Mexico ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Grant County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low4.8 µg/m³
97/100New Mexico 5.9 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyGrant County value
Preventable hospital stays · low1,562 /100k
96/100New Mexico 2,042 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGrant County value
Mental health providers · high665 /100k
96/100New Mexico 480 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGrant County value
Comfortable days · high35.2%
95/100New Mexico 31.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationGrant County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.46%
90/100New Mexico 0.63%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Job growth · high1.6%
85/100New Mexico -0.4%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataGrant County value

Weaknesses

Drought exposure · high100%
1/100New Mexico 84%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAGrant County value
Drug overdose deaths · high47.3 /100k
2/100New Mexico 46.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataGrant County value
Median household income · low$36,202
3/100New Mexico $67,838United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Broadband subscriptions · low80.7%
4/100New Mexico 86.5%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Mental health care shortage · high19.0
4/100New Mexico 16.6United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationGrant County value
Injury deaths · high146 /100k
4/100New Mexico 134 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGrant County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
1,384 (2015-2019) → 1,044 (2020-2024)
−25%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
26.9% (2015-2019) → 4.7% (2020-2024)
−22 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
71.3% (2015-2019) → 80.7% (2020-2024)
+9.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
3.1% (2015-2019) → 8.8% (2020-2024)
+5.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Unemployment rateImproving
9.0% (2015-2019) → 3.4% (2020-2024)
−5.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
High school diploma or higherImproving
87.2% (2015-2019) → 92.6% (2020-2024)
+5.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Hurley, New Mexico improved on 2 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved2

High school++5.4 points87.2% → 92.6%
Broadband+9.4 points71.3% → 80.7%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Hurley, New Mexico between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	22.0 min2015-2019	20.0 min2020-2024	−2.0 min	Within the margin of error	71%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.2%2015-2019	16.6%2020-2024	+3.4 points	Within the margin of error	55%
Broadband subscriptions	71.3%2015-2019	80.7%2020-2024	+9.4 points	Improved	56%
Effective property tax rate	0.55%2015-2019	0.46%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	34%
High school diploma or higher	87.2%2015-2019	92.6%2020-2024	+5.4 points	Improved	84%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	+0.4×	Within the margin of error	55%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3992015-2019	0.3952020-2024	−0.004	Within the margin of error	54%
Median household income	$39,2712015-2019	$36,2022020-2024	−7.8%	Within the margin of error	4%
Poverty rate	14.4%2015-2019	17.7%2020-2024	+3.3 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Hurley, New Mexico five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Hurley, New Mexico in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Hurley, New Mexico itself moved +1.9 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,044 residents (±306)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

445 households (±114)

Hurley, New Mexico
New Mexico share

Under $25k28%†126
$25k–50k36%†162
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

445 households (±114)

Hurley, New Mexico
New Mexico share

Own85%378
Rent15%†67

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

397 workers (±154)

Hurley, New Mexico
New Mexico share

Drive alone87%†347
Carpool0.3%†1
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Silver City, NM

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Grant County, the county holding most of Hurley's residents.

Grant County has 533 employer establishments, 194 for every 10,000 residents (0.78× the US rate of 248; 0.92× New Mexico's), with 5,976 paid employees at an average annual pay of $47,776. The Census Bureau also counts 1,792 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 533; 1,792 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 194; US 248 · New Mexico 212
Paid employees: 5,976
Average annual pay: $47,776; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Grant County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	54	19.7	0.94×About typical	498	$56,301	118
Restaurants and other eating places	48	17.5	0.95×About typical	684	$17,882	8
Specialty trade contractors	35	12.7	0.82×About typical	178	$39,006	97
Full-service restaurants	22	8	1.04×About typical	351	$18,838	4
Lessors of real estate	22	8	0.65×Fewer than typical	57	$36,965	131
Offices of other health practitioners	20	7.3	1.20×About typical	139	$58,129	49
Construction of buildings	19	6.9	0.91×About typical	112	$70,545	47
Limited-service restaurants	19	6.9	0.86×About typical	303	$17,409	—
Offices of physicians	18	6.6	1.01×About typical	227	$56,498	14
Building equipment contractors	17	6.2	1.03×About typical	109	$43,220	22
Religious organizations	17	6.2	1.12×About typical	58	$17,569	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	13	4.7	0.94×About typical	48	$27,646	37

Rank places for an industry Open Grant County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 27,476 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $2,371 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Hurley, New Mexico: $2.27 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $2,371; −48% vs FY2025
Per resident: $2.27; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 23%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Forest Service$1,44661%
Federal Acquisition Service$92639%

Top recipients

PERFECTED SOLUTIONS LLC$1,39759%
EAN HOLDINGS, LLC$68829%
UNITED OFFICE SOLUTIONS INC$42018%
FEDERAL CONTRACTS LLC$23710%
RED J ENVIRONMENTAL CORPORATION-$8.480.0%

Spending by fiscal year

906.7FY2017
252.1FY2018
1.2KFY2019
2.7KFY2020
1.8KFY2021
7.8KFY2022
2.7KFY2023
799.9FY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Consumer goods rental · 5322$1,39759%
Automotive equipment rental and leasing · 5321$68829%
Other miscellaneous manufacturing · 3399$42018%
Motor vehicle manufacturing · 3361$23710%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Hurley, New Mexico, so they do not add up across cities.

Hurley, New Mexico's figures are part of those of Grant County, NM ($95.8M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Hurley is mostly in Grant County.

See federal money in Grant County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Hurley, New Mexico is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Gabe VasquezD-NM-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 89%Missed 0.7%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Grant County24100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Silver City, NM31

Other cities and towns in Grant County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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