County · New Mexico

Catron County, New Mexico

Catron County, New Mexico has a quality-of-life score of 22 out of 100 (low), ranking #2,441 of 3,143 US counties. Within New Mexico it ranks #14 of 33 counties. It ranks best on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low), comfortable days (high) and students per teacher (low). It ranks worst on food environment index (low), distance to an emergency room (high) and drug overdose deaths (high).

22Low

Quality-of-life score: #2,441 of 3,143 counties
New Mexico: #14 of 33 in NM
Population: 3,827 (2025)
Land area: 6,924 mi²
Density: 0.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 35003

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US counties.

Safety22#2,416/3,096
Economy4#3,014/3,143
Housing20#2,513/3,140
Health31#2,165/3,144
Healthcare4#3,010/3,143
Environment82#572/3,108
Education69#971/3,144
Infrastructure4#3,028/3,144
Community29#2,220/3,144
Leisure & amenities60#1,251/3,143

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Catron County, New Mexico ranks highest and lowest among US counties (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low3.7 µg/m³
99/100New Mexico 5.9 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2019Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Comfortable days · high35.8%
99/100New Mexico 31.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Students per teacher · low8.1×
99/100New Mexico 13.1×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education Statistics
Effective property tax rate · low0.27%
97/100New Mexico 0.63%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Preventable hospital stays · low1,240 /100k
96/100New Mexico 2,042 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Public libraries · high5.2 /10k
93/100New Mexico 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library Services

Weaknesses

Food environment index · low2.6
0/100New Mexico 4.6United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Distance to an emergency room · high55.7 mi
0/100New Mexico 9.8 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Drug overdose deaths · high0.0 /100k
1/100New Mexico 46.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional data
Mammography screening · low23.0%
1/100New Mexico 38.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Natural hazard risk · high98.4
2/100New Mexico 49.42025Federal Emergency Management Agency
Flu vaccinations · low15.0%
2/100New Mexico 36.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute

Trends

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

PopulationRising
3,608 (2020) → 3,827 (2025)
+6.1%5 yearsUS 331,578,104 → 341,784,857
Violent crime rateWorsening
38 /100k (2019) → 139 /100k (2024)
+270%5 yearsUS 369 /100k → 363 /100k
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
24.7% (2015-2019) → 49.2% (2020-2024)
+25 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Drug overdose deathsImproving
39.2 /100k (2021) → 0.0 /100k (Mar 2025–Feb 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 30.8 /100k → 18.4 /100k
High ozone daysImproving
2 days (2014) → 0 days (2019)
−100%5 yearsUS 8 days → 6 days
Average commute timeWorsening
12.9 min (2015-2019) → 25.3 min (2020-2024)
+97%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min

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, Catron County, New Mexico improved on 7 of 26 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 17 moved within the margin of error and 2 barely changed.

Earlier period
Latest period
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among counties: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts. Periods differ by measure (most compare 2015-2019 with 2020-2024); each row names its own in its tooltip and in the table.

Improved7

Bachelor's++16 points15.7% → 31.2%
Weekly wage+36%$655 → $890
Broadband+18 points53.7% → 71.6%
Real income+38%$37,675 → $51,842
Household income+31%$37,190 → $48,654

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 26 measures

Change of every measure of Catron County, New Mexico between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Arts, entertainment and recreation	8.3 /10k2020	5.2 /10k2025	−37%	Within the margin of error	6%
Average commute time	12.9 min2015-2019	25.3 min2020-2024	+12.5 min	Within the margin of error	0%
Average weekly wage	$6552020	$8902025	+36%	Improved	95%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.7%2015-2019	31.2%2020-2024	+16 points	Improved	100%
Broadband subscriptions	53.7%2015-2019	71.6%2020-2024	+18 points	Improved	90%
Child poverty rate	38.3%2019	38.5%2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Distance to an airport	133 mi2020	133 mi2025	0 mi	Little change	50%
Drug overdose deaths	32.2 /100k2020	0.0 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026	−100%	Within the margin of error	97%
Effective property tax rate	0.43%2015-2019	0.27%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Firearm deaths	24.4 /100k2020	24.3 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	−0.4%	Within the margin of error	49%
Grocery stores	2.8 /10k2020	2.6 /10k2025	−5.7%	Within the margin of error	34%
High school diploma or higher	94.1%2015-2019	98.0%2020-2024	+3.9 points	Within the margin of error	82%
Home price to income ratio	4.2×2015-2019	3.3×2020-2024	−0.8×	Within the margin of error	100%
Income adjusted for local prices	$37,6752019	$51,8422024	+38%	Improved	79%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3832015-2019	0.3882020-2024	+0.005	Within the margin of error	46%
Median household income	$37,1902019	$48,6542024	+31%	Improved	79%
New business applications	7.8 /1k2020	10.2 /1k2025	+31%	Improved	34%
Poverty rate	20.6%2019	19.0%2024	−1.6 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Public libraries	5.7 /10k2019	5.2 /10k2024	−8.3%	Within the margin of error	14%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Restaurants and bars	11.1 /10k2020	7.8 /10k2025	−29%	Within the margin of error	8%
Students per teacher	7.8×2019	8.1×2024	+0.3×	Little change	17%
Suicide rate	29.3 /100k2020	25.9 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	−12%	Within the margin of error	78%
Traffic deaths	39.8 /100k2015-2019	42.7 /100k2020-2024	+7.2%	Within the margin of error	46%
Unemployment rate	7.7%2020	5.5%2025	−2.2 points	Improved	41%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	9.1%2019	10.5%2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	6%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 2431 counties that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: Regional Economic Accounts; Local Area Unemployment Statistics; Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence; American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates; Business Formation Statistics; Small Area Health Insurance Estimates; Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates; Public Libraries Survey; Common Core of Data; Fatality Analysis Reporting System; Distance to airports and intercity rail. 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 3144 counties 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.

Counties like Catron County, New Mexico five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Catron County, 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, Catron County, New Mexico itself moved +1 points in standing on average over the same 28 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

3,743 residents

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

1,789 households (±190)

Catron County, New Mexico
New Mexico share

Under $25k24%†428
$25k–50k26%†469
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,789 households (±190)

Catron County, New Mexico
New Mexico share

Own94%1,678
Rent6.2%†111

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

1,057 workers (±246)

Catron County, New Mexico
New Mexico share

Drive alone49%519
Carpool8.1%†86
Public transit0.0%0

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.

Catron County has 74 employer establishments, 194 for every 10,000 residents (0.78× the US rate of 248; 0.91× New Mexico's), with 515 paid employees at an average annual pay of $39,285. The Census Bureau also counts 350 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 74; 350 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 194; US 248 · New Mexico 212
Paid employees: 515
Average annual pay: $39,285; US $68,342

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

Gasoline stations	7	18.3	5.65×Too few to compare	45	$18,911	—
Ambulatory health care services	4	10.5	0.50×Too few to compare	36	$23,222	11
Construction of buildings	4	10.5	1.38×Too few to compare	10	$36,200	14
Restaurants and other eating places	4	10.5	0.57×Too few to compare	8	$18,875	4
Specialty trade contractors	4	10.5	0.68×Too few to compare	7	$24,714	20
Amusement, gambling and recreation industries	3	7.9	2.95×Too few to compare	9	$17,111	8
Full-service restaurants	3	7.9	1.02×Too few to compare	5	$18,800	3
Other amusement and recreation industries	3	7.9	3.24×Too few to compare	9	$17,111	8
Outpatient care centers	3	7.9	4.27×Too few to compare	35	$22,571	—
Religious organizations	3	7.9	1.42×Too few to compare	9	$29,111	—
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	5
Advertising, public relations and related services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 3,821 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 contract spending

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $15M on contracts performed in Catron County, New Mexico: $3,911 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $15M; +166% vs FY2025
Per resident: $3,911; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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$13.7M92%
Federal Highway Administration$959.7K6.4%
Bureau of Land Management$290.8K1.9%
Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services$9,2000.1%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

496.5KFY2017
1.2MFY2018
435.6KFY2019
297.7KFY2020
1.4MFY2021
-230.9KFY2022
14.9MFY2023
604.7KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Highway, street, and bridge construction · 2373$14.2M95%
Support activities for forestry · 1153$300K2.0%
Forest nurseries and gathering of forest products · 1132$271.1K1.8%
Utility system construction · 2371$102.7K0.7%
Remediation and other waste management services · 5629$64K0.4%
Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$8,190

Largest awards

THE GILA NATIONAL FOREST HAS A REQUIREMENT FOR THE REHABILITATION AND MAINTENANCE OF NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM ROAD (NFSR) 141 FROM MILEPOST 0.69 TO MILEPOST 18.81. WORK INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO PULVERIZING THE ENTIRE EXISTING CHIP SEAL SURFACE T$13.3M
SURFACE CONTRACTING, INC· Catron County, NM· Construction & real property· Jul 16, 2026 – Jul 16, 2026· 127EAX26C0026
CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR NM FLAP 159(1) CATWALK ACCESS ROAD$11.7M
STEVE MANNING CONSTRUCTION INC· Catron County, NM· Construction & real property· Aug 31, 2023 – Nov 14, 2025· 6982AF23C000046
NM FS 220(1) ROMERO CREEK BRIDGE - THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONTRACT IS CONSTRUCTION AND REPLACEMENT OF A BRIDGE.$1.4M
WHELCON CONTRACTORS LLC· Catron County, NM· Construction & real property· Nov 3, 2025 – Nov 3, 2025· 6982AF26C000003

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.

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Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $44M in grants, loans, direct payments and insurance for Catron County, New Mexico: $11,490 per resident (US $12,955).

Assistance · FY2026: $44M; −12% vs FY2025
Per resident: $11,490; US $12,955
Loan face value: $673.8K; lent or guaranteed
To individuals: 4.3%; counted, never named

Top programs

96.002 · Social Security Retirement Insurance$28.2M64%
64.109 · Veterans Compensation for Service-Connected Disability$4.1M9.3%
96.001 · Social Security Disability Insurance$2.7M6.0%
96.004 · Social Security Survivors Insurance$1.8M4.0%
20.205 · Highway Planning and Construction$1.7M3.9%
10.108 · Livestock Indemnity Program-2014 Farm Bill$987.9K2.2%
10.766 · Community Facilities Loans and Grants$750K1.7%
96.006 · Supplemental Security Income$691.7K1.6%

Top recipients (organizations)

PUEBLO OF ACOMA$2.3M5.2%
PUEBLO OF ACOMA, NM
NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION$1.7M3.9%
SANTA FE, NM
RESERVE, VILLAGE OF$750K1.7%
RESERVE, NM
NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION$127K0.3%
MISSOULA, MT
SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY$78K

Organizations only: awards to individuals and county aggregate records count in the totals but are never listed. Grants to state governments recorded at the agency's own address are counted statewide, not in the capital's county.

Top agencies

Social Security Administration$33.3M76%
Under Secretary for Benefits/Veterans Benefits Administration$4.4M10.0%
Department of Veterans Affairs
Federal Highway Administration$1.7M3.9%
Department of Transportation
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$1.6M3.7%
Department of the Interior
Farm Service Agency

Assistance by fiscal year

36.6MFY2021
41.1MFY2022
43.1MFY2023
60.3MFY2024
50MFY2025
44MFY2026

County aggregates

86%

Share of obligations reported only as county totals of many small awards (for example Social Security or Medicare payments), with no recipient named.

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

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Public money & outcomes

Federal money per resident by fiscal year next to how the place changed, and, when its money jumped, how it compares with similar counties. A comparison, not cause and effect.

How Catron County, New Mexico compares: the federal money it received per resident, and how jobs, income, housing and other outcomes moved, each next to the United States.

Money per resident

By federal fiscal year (October to September, named by the year it ends), obligations per resident. A year with no record counts as $0.

Catron County, New Mexico
United States
partial year

Federal contractsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Catron County, New Mexico and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
FY2017	$140	$1,436
FY2018	$350	$1,552
FY2019	$124	$1,654
FY2020	$82.52	$1,880
FY2021	$373	$1,810
FY2022	-$60.96	$1,917
FY2023	$3,900	$2,079
FY2024	$158	$2,047
FY2025	$1,472	$2,165
FY2026	$3,911 (partial year)	$1,911

Construction contractsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Catron County, New Mexico and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
FY2017	$37.21	$93.28
FY2018	$21.58	$105
FY2019	$29.90	$128
FY2020	$37.23	$145
FY2021	$171	$117
FY2022

Contracts and grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Catron County, New Mexico and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
FY2021	$1,684	$5,748
FY2022	$408	$5,221
FY2023	$4,809	$5,364
FY2024	$3,099	$5,501
FY2025	$2,955	$5,732
FY2026	$4,743

Transportation grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Catron County, New Mexico and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
FY2021	$1,307	$298
FY2022	-$58.83	$357
FY2023	$438	$301
FY2024	$2,893	$319
FY2025	$1,497	$360
FY2026	$445

HHS grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Catron County, New Mexico and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
FY2021	$0	$2,304
FY2022	$91.96	$2,197
FY2023	$87.37	$2,274
FY2024	$0	$2,267
FY2025	$0	$2,397
FY2026	$0

SBA lending volumeUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Catron County, New Mexico and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
FY2021	$119	$1,186
FY2022	$6.97	$465
FY2023	-$14.39	$76.52
FY2024	$57.43	$120
FY2025	$52.26	$148
FY2026	$0

Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)

How outcomes moved

Calendar years. Charts share the same years as the money above. Levels are shown as percent change since 2016; rates are shown as the rate itself.

Catron County, New Mexico
United States
Years with money loaded

Job growthpercent

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Job growth, Catron County, New Mexico and the United States, by year
Calendar years	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
2014	−2.1%	2.0%
2015

When its money jumped

A county-year with at least 10,000 residents whose money per resident is at least twice its earlier average counts as a jump. Each is compared with up to five similar counties in the same region whose money did not jump.

Counties under 10,000 residents are not assessed: their money per resident swings too much from year to year.

Sources: Regional Economic Accounts, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Business Formation Statistics, Building Permits Survey, Cartographic Boundary Files, Gazetteer and metro delineations, Population Estimates Program, Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission), Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System), Zillow Home Value Index, Observed Rent Index and affordability. JSON · /api/v1/outcomes/places/35003

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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.

Catron County, 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

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Cities and towns in Catron County

Places whose residents live mostly in Catron County, largest first.

Neighboring counties

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar counties

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.

Mapping Injury, Overdose, and ViolenceCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2026-10-01
PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Daily county PM2.5 and ozone (EPA downscaler model)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · release 2022
Care Compare: Hospital General Information and Timely and Effective CareCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services · release 2026-07-22
Distance to airports and intercity railFederal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau · release 2025+amtrak-2026-04-23
Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Return A master filesFederal Bureau of Investigation · release 2025
National Risk IndexFederal Emergency Management Agency · release v1.20.0
Health Professional Shortage AreasHealth Resources and Services Administration · release 2026-10-03
Public Libraries SurveyInstitute of Museum and Library Services · release FY2024
Common Core of DataNational Center for Education Statistics · release 2024
U.S. Drought Monitor county statisticsNational Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAA · release 2026-09-29
Fatality Analysis Reporting SystemNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration · release 2024
nClimGrid-Daily county averagesNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · release 2025
Regional Economic AccountsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · release 2024
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
Quarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2026 Q1
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Business Formation StatisticsU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-10-01
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
Alternative Fuels Data Center station locatorU.S. Department of Energy · release 2026-10
Election Administration and Voting SurveyU.S. Election Assistance Commission · release 2024
Air Quality Index Annual Summary by CountyU.S. Environmental Protection Agency · release 2025
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement
Zillow Home Value Index, Observed Rent Index and affordabilityZillow Research · release 2026-08

JSON · /api/v1/places/35003

Calendar years	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
2014	+2.0%	−4.2%
2015	+1.4%	−1.3%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	+1.3%	+3.3%
2018	+5.9%	+6.8%
2019	+6.6%	+10.5%
2020	+17.0%	+19.4%
2021	+23.0%	+26.1%
2022	+35.5%	+30.6%
2023	+33.0%	+35.0%
2024	+43.0%	+41.0%
2025	+58.9%	+46.8%

Calendar years	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
2014	−1.4%	−5.5%
2015	+3.8%	−1.9%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	+2.9%	+4.1%
2018	+6.2%	+8.9%
2019	+9.4%	+13.5%
2020	+22.1%	+20.8%
2021	+27.6%	+32.1%
2022	+35.9%	+35.4%
2023	+37.2%	+42.9%
2024	+45.4%	+49.5%

Calendar years	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
2014	−4.6%	−6.9%
2015	+4.9%	−3.2%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	−1.2%	+4.7%
2018	−0.3%	+7.5%
2019	+6.7%	+14.0%
2020	−21.4%	+16.9%
2021	+15.5%	+21.0%
2022	+26.9%	+29.7%
2023	+31.4%	+34.9%
2024	+39.5%	+41.6%

Calendar years	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
2014	22.2%	15.5%
2015	23.4%	14.7%
2016	23.2%	14.0%
2017	21.2%	13.4%
2018	23.3%	13.1%
2019	20.6%	12.3%
2020	22.8%	11.9%
2021	19.8%	12.8%
2022	19.8%	12.6%
2023	18.6%	12.5%
2024	19.0%	12.1%

Calendar years	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
2014	—	−10.8% (Dec 2014)
2015	—	−5.2% (Dec 2015)
2016	0.0% (Dec 2016)	0.0% (Dec 2016)
2017	−2.9% (Dec 2017)	+6.4% (Dec 2017)
2018	+6.0% (Dec 2018)	+12.6% (Dec 2018)
2019	+6.9% (Dec 2019)	+18.1% (Dec 2019)
2020	+22.3% (Dec 2020)	+29.3% (Dec 2020)
2021	+33.3% (Dec 2021)	+49.8% (Dec 2021)
2022	+29.2% (Dec 2022)	+64.7% (Dec 2022)
2023	+31.6% (Dec 2023)	+69.0% (Dec 2023)
2024	+31.0% (Dec 2024)	+73.4% (Dec 2024)
2025	+34.0% (Dec 2025)	+73.7% (Dec 2025)

Calendar years	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
2014	8.2%	6.2%
2015	8.4%	5.3%
2016	8.9%	4.9%
2017	7.5%	4.4%
2018	7.0%	3.9%
2019	7.0%	3.7%
2020	7.7%	8.1%
2021	7.4%	5.4%
2022	5.5%	3.7%
2023	5.4%	3.6%
2024	5.4%	4.0%
2025	5.5%	4.3%

Calendar years	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
2014	22.2%	13.5%
2015	13.5%	10.9%
2016	8.9%	10.0%
2017	10.0%	10.2%
2018	8.0%	10.4%
2019	9.1%	10.8%
2020	6.5%	10.4%
2021	10.2%	10.2%
2022	7.5%	9.5%
2023	7.7%	9.5%
2024	10.5%	9.8%

Calendar years	Catron County, New Mexico	United States
2014	8.5/1k	8.5/1k
2015	6.0/1k	8.7/1k
2016	10.5/1k	9.1/1k
2017	5.9/1k	9.8/1k
2018	7.1/1k	10.7/1k
2019	12.5/1k	10.6/1k
2020	7.8/1k	13.1/1k
2021	7.3/1k	16.2/1k
2022	7.1/1k	15.1/1k
2023	12.8/1k	16.2/1k
2024	13.6/1k	15.4/1k
2025	10.2/1k	16.6/1k

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