County · New Mexico

Valencia County, New Mexico

Valencia County, New Mexico has a quality-of-life score of 6 out of 100 (very low), ranking #2,965 of 3,143 US counties. Within New Mexico it ranks #29 of 33 counties. It ranks best on distance to an airport (low), job growth (high) and preventable hospital stays (low). It ranks worst on drug overdose deaths (high), drought exposure (high) and suicide rate (high).

6Very low

Quality-of-life score: #2,965 of 3,143 counties
New Mexico: #29 of 33 in NM
Population: 82,013 (2025)
Land area: 1,067 mi²
Density: 76.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 35061

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 77 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.

Safety6#2,921/3,096
Economy26#2,321/3,143
Housing17#2,609/3,140
Health35#2,043/3,144
Healthcare9#2,866/3,143
Environment51#1,529/3,108
Education17#2,606/3,144
Infrastructure22#2,460/3,144
Community4#3,032/3,144
Leisure & amenities4#3,009/3,143

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Strengths

Distance to an airport · low21 mi
90/100New Mexico 56 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau
Job growth · high2.8%
87/100New Mexico -0.4%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional data
Preventable hospital stays · low1,854 /100k
85/100New Mexico 2,042 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Comfortable days · high30.1%
82/100New Mexico 31.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Adult smoking · low13.7%
80/100New Mexico 15.0%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
79/100New Mexico 4.3%2025U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Weaknesses

Drug overdose deaths · high39.2 /100k
1/100New Mexico 46.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional data
Drought exposure · high100%
1/100New Mexico 84%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAA
Suicide rate · high29.1 /100k
4/100New Mexico 22.3 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional data
Violent crime rate · high613 /100k
4/100New Mexico 622 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of Investigation
Grocery stores · low0.5 /10k
5/100New Mexico 1.0 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Food environment index · low5.4
6/100New Mexico 4.6United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute

Trends

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

PopulationRising
76,495 (2020) → 82,013 (2025)
+7.2%5 yearsUS 331,578,104 → 341,784,857
High ozone daysImproving
1 days (2017) → 0 days (2022)
−100%5 yearsUS 9 days → 7 days
New business applicationsImproving
6.0 /1k (2020) → 10.8 /1k (2025)
+80%5 yearsUS 13.1 /1k → 16.6 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
68.0% (2015-2019) → 83.8% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Homicide rateImproving
15.5 /100k (2021) → 5.7 /100k (May 2025–Apr 2026)
−63%5 yearsUS 7.8 /100k → 4.8 /100k
Child care cost burdenWorsening
26.1% (2020 & 2021) → 37.3% (2023 & 2024)
+11 pts3 yearsUS 24.5% → 27.9%

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, Valencia County, New Mexico improved on 8 of 32 measures with a comparison and declined on 4. 18 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 2020 with 2025); each row names its own in its tooltip and in the table.

Improved8

Weekly wage+33%$744 → $988
Broadband+16 points68.0% → 83.8%
New businesses+80%6.0 /1k → 10.8 /1k
Homicides−60%14.4 /100k → 5.7 /100k
Real income+35%$37,864 → $51,143

Declined4

Violent crime+37%449 /100k → 613 /100k
Rent burden+11 points45.2% → 56.2%
Price / income+0.9×2.9× → 3.8×
Rent / income+3.8 points28.6% → 32.4%

All 32 measures

Change of every measure of Valencia County, New Mexico between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Arts, entertainment and recreation	1.7 /10k2020	1.3 /10k2025	−21%	Within the margin of error	13%
Average commute time	28.4 min2015-2019	30.2 min2020-2024	+1.7 min	Within the margin of error	25%
Average weekly wage	$7442020	$9882025	+33%	Improved	91%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.5%2015-2019	20.9%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	44%
Broadband subscriptions	68.0%2015-2019	83.8%2020-2024	+16 points	Improved	84%
Child poverty rate	23.2%2019	20.3%2024	−2.9 points	Within the margin of error	70%
Distance to an airport	21 mi2020	21 mi2025	0 mi	Little change	50%
Drug overdose deaths	40.6 /100k2020	39.2 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026	−3.4%	Within the margin of error	28%
Effective property tax rate	0.66%2015-2019	0.57%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Firearm deaths	30.1 /100k2020	22.7 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	−25%	Within the margin of error	83%
Grocery stores	0.7 /10k2020	0.5 /10k2025	−25%	Within the margin of error	14%
Gyms and fitness centers	0.8 /10k2020	0.6 /10k2025	−22%	Within the margin of error	20%
High school diploma or higher	84.5%2015-2019	86.1%2020-2024	+1.6 points	Within the margin of error	44%
Home price to income ratio	2.9×2015-2019	3.8×2020-2024	+0.9×	Declined	14%
Homicide rate	14.4 /100k2020	5.7 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	−60%	Improved	79%
Income adjusted for local prices	$37,8642019	$51,1432024	+35%	Improved	70%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4352015-2019	0.4562020-2024	+0.021	Within the margin of error	22%
Median household income	$54,8672019	$69,3092024	+26%	Improved	57%
New business applications	6.0 /1k2020	10.8 /1k2025	+80%	Improved	84%
Pharmacies	1.3 /10k2020	0.9 /10k2025	−35%	Within the margin of error	12%
Poverty rate	17.6%2019	15.0%2024	−2.6 points	Within the margin of error	90%
Property crime rate	1,882 /100k2020	1,304 /100k2025	−31%	Improved	41%
Public libraries	0.6 /10k2019	0.6 /10k2024	−4.9%	Within the margin of error	25%
Rent as share of income	28.6%2015-2019	32.4%2020-2024	+3.8 points	Declined	14%
Rent-burdened households	45.2%2015-2019	56.2%2020-2024	+11 points	Declined	9%
Restaurants and bars	4.4 /10k2020	3.5 /10k2025	−20%	Within the margin of error	14%
Students per teacher	17.8×2019	16.9×2024	−0.8×	Little change	56%
Suicide rate	24.9 /100k2020	29.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	+17%	Within the margin of error	25%
Traffic deaths	11.0 /100k2015-2019	14.5 /100k2020-2024	+32%	Within the margin of error	23%
Unemployment rate	7.6%2020	4.5%2025	−3.1 points	Improved	64%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	12.6%2019	14.0%2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	6%
Violent crime rate	449 /100k2020	613 /100k2025	+37%	Declined	12%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 2303 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; Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Return A master files; 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 Valencia County, New Mexico five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Valencia 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, Valencia County, New Mexico itself moved −3.5 points in standing on average over the same 32 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

78,458 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

27,583 households (±458)

Valencia County, New Mexico
New Mexico share

Under $25k19%5,330
$25k–50k22%6,165
$50k–75k18%5,074

Homes

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

Owners and renters

27,583 households (±458)

Valencia County, New Mexico
New Mexico share

Own83%22,944
Rent17%4,639

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

30,001 workers (±907)

Valencia County, New Mexico
New Mexico share

Drive alone75%22,368
Carpool11%3,434
Public transit0.4%†107

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 Albuquerque, 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.

Valencia County has 962 employer establishments, 121 for every 10,000 residents (0.49× the US rate of 248; 0.57× New Mexico's), with 12,051 paid employees at an average annual pay of $39,838. The Census Bureau also counts 4,081 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 962; 4,081 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 121; US 248 · New Mexico 212
Paid employees: 12,051
Average annual pay: $39,838; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	112	14.1	0.91×About typical	888	$57,387	389
Restaurants and other eating places	82	10.3	0.56×Fewer than typical	1,541	$19,402	26
Ambulatory health care services	67	8.5	0.41×Fewer than typical	635	$46,769	211
Building equipment contractors	57	7.2	1.20×About typical	372	$59,613	79
Limited-service restaurants	45	5.7	0.71×Fewer than typical	879	$19,011	10
Construction of buildings	44	5.6	0.73×Fewer than typical	201	$42,587	159
Lessors of real estate	39	4.9	0.40×Fewer than typical	67	$26,358	289
Truck transportation	36	4.5	0.90×About typical	368	$57,864	159
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	35	4.4	1.34×More than typical	258	$58,008	36
Religious organizations	31	3.9	0.71×Fewer than typical	214	$18,364	—
Full-service restaurants	29	3.7	0.48×Fewer than typical	584	$19,151	11
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	26	3.3	1.04×About typical	197	$53,553	78

Rank places for an industry

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 79,254 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 $150.5K on contracts performed in Valencia County, New Mexico: $1.83 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $150.5K; −99% vs FY2025
Per resident: $1.83; US $1,995
Sole-source: 100%; 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

National Park Service$1.7M100%
Bureau of Reclamation$443.5K100%
Defense Logistics Agency$163.9K100%
Department of the Navy$140K93%
Federal Aviation Administration$96.6K64%
Forest Service$77.3K51%
Bureau of Land Management$36.6K24%
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission$33K22%

Top recipients

ORCOM, A DIVISION OF ORTEGA COMPANIES, INC$1.7M100%
SDV CONSTRUCTION, INC.$772.8K100%
PRECISION SURVEYS INC$443.5K100%
ADELPHI STAFFING, LLC$197.6K100%
TESTUDO LOGISTICS LLC$169.8K100%

Spending by fiscal year

6.2MFY2017
9.5MFY2018
6.5MFY2019
6.9MFY2020
9.1MFY2021
6.5MFY2022
1.9MFY2023
6.5M

Top industries (NAICS)

Residential building construction · 2361$1.7M100%
Nonresidential building construction · 2362$772.8K100%
Offices of other health practitioners · 6213$323.8K100%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$303.4K100%
Other fabricated metal product manufacturing · 3329$163.9K100%
Scientific research and development services · 5417

Largest awards

CHCU 310250, REPLACE OBSOLETE HOUSING AT CHACO CULTURAL HISTORICAL PARK, NEW MEXICO$8.9M
ORCOM, A DIVISION OF ORTEGA COMPANIES, INC· Valencia County, NM· Construction & real property· Sep 25, 2025 – Sep 24, 2026· 140P2025C0070
PRIMARY CARE AND URGENT CARE PHYSICIANS NURSE PRACTITIONER (2) AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT (1) FOR ACL IHC.$1.3M
MEDICAL DOCTOR ASSOCIATES LLC· Valencia County, NM· Health & medical· Feb 12, 2024 – Feb 17, 2026· 75H70724F80014
PRIMARY CARE AND URGENT CARE PHYSICIANS NURSE PRACTITIONER (2) AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT (1) FOR ACL IHC.$785.7K
MEDICAL DOCTOR ASSOCIATES LLC· Valencia County, NM· Health & medical· Nov 7, 2024 – Feb 18, 2026· 75H70725F80007

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.

Explore contracts in Valencia County, New Mexico

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 $510.6M in grants, loans, direct payments and insurance for Valencia County, New Mexico: $6,226 per resident (US $12,975).

Assistance · FY2026: $510.6M; −7.2% vs FY2025
Per resident: $6,226; US $12,975
Loan face value: $32.7M; lent or guaranteed
To individuals: 1.5%; counted, never named

Top programs

96.002 · Social Security Retirement Insurance$277.2M54%
64.109 · Veterans Compensation for Service-Connected Disability$72.9M14%
96.001 · Social Security Disability Insurance$50.7M9.9%
96.004 · Social Security Survivors Insurance$30M5.9%
96.006 · Supplemental Security Income$18.5M3.6%
57.001 · Social Insurance for Railroad Workers$15.9M3.1%
93.600 · Head Start$10.6M2.1%
10.924 · Conservation Stewardship Program$7.2M1.4%

Top recipients (organizations)

MIDWEST NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY ACTION PROG$8.3M1.6%
LOS LUNAS, NM
HAAKU COMMUNITY ACADEMY$4.6M0.9%
PUEBLO OF ACOMA, NM
NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION$2.9M0.6%
SANTA FE, NM
PUEBLO OF ISLETA$2.4M0.5%
ISLETA, NM
PUEBLO OF LAGUNA$1.7M

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$376.4M74%
Under Secretary for Benefits/Veterans Benefits Administration$81M16%
Department of Veterans Affairs
Railroad Retirement Board$15.9M3.1%
Administration for Children and Families$10.6M2.1%
Department of Health and Human Services
Natural Resources Conservation Service$7.2M

Assistance by fiscal year

481.7MFY2021
466.4MFY2022
486.1MFY2023
509.4MFY2024
550.1MFY2025
510.6MFY2026

County aggregates

93%

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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Explore grants in Valencia County, New Mexico

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 Valencia 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.

Valencia County, New Mexico
United States
partial year

Federal contractsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Valencia County, New Mexico and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
FY2017	$82.07	$1,436
FY2018	$125	$1,552
FY2019	$84.74	$1,654
FY2020	$89.94	$1,880
FY2021	$117	$1,810
FY2022	$83.08	$1,917
FY2023	$24.58	$2,079
FY2024	$79.85	$2,047
FY2025	$132	$2,165
FY2026	$1.83 (partial year)	$1,912
FY2027	$0 (partial year)	—

Construction contractsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Valencia County, New Mexico and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
FY2017	$15.55	$93.28
FY2018	$0.42	$105
FY2019	$0.40	$128
FY2020	$5.47	$145
FY2021	$48.17	$117

Contracts and grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Valencia County, New Mexico and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
FY2021	$838	$5,748
FY2022	$418	$5,221
FY2023	$493	$5,364
FY2024	$652	$5,501
FY2025	$677	$5,732
FY2026

Transportation grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Valencia County, New Mexico and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
FY2021	$444	$298
FY2022	$81.45	$357
FY2023	$139	$301
FY2024	$366	$319
FY2025	$391	$360
FY2026	$46.18

Housing assistanceUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Valencia County, New Mexico and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
FY2021	$125	$239
FY2022	$120	$185
FY2023	$31.61	$229
FY2024	$20.75	$229
FY2025	$38.09	$249
FY2026	$21.06

HHS grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Valencia County, New Mexico and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
FY2021	$121	$2,304
FY2022	$95.47	$2,197
FY2023	$102	$2,274
FY2024	$109	$2,267
FY2025	$115	$2,397
FY2026

SBA lending volumeUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Valencia County, New Mexico and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
FY2021	$233	$1,186
FY2022	$131	$465
FY2023	-$2.41	$76.52
FY2024	$101	$120
FY2025	$15.77	$148
FY2026	$5.80

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.

Valencia County, New Mexico
United States
Years with money loaded

Job growthpercent

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Job growth, Valencia County, New Mexico and the United States, by year
Calendar years	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
2014	−2.6%	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.

No jump in federal money met the criteria in the years loaded, so there is no comparison for this place.

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/35061

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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.

Valencia County, New Mexico is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

Metro area

The metro or micro area Valencia County belongs to. A county is in at most one.

Albuquerque, NM39Outlying county

Cities and towns in Valencia County

Places whose residents live mostly in Valencia 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 2026-10-08
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
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Calendar years	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
2014	−2.2%	−4.2%
2015	−0.7%	−1.3%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	+8.0%	+3.3%
2018	+13.7%	+6.8%
2019	+17.2%	+10.5%
2020	+24.4%	+19.4%
2021	+31.8%	+26.1%
2022	+37.5%	+30.6%
2023	+49.3%	+35.0%
2024	+59.7%	+41.0%
2025	+65.2%	+46.8%

Calendar years	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
2014	−7.5%	−5.5%
2015	−3.8%	−1.9%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	+1.3%	+4.1%
2018	+5.5%	+8.9%
2019	+10.1%	+13.5%
2020	+20.7%	+20.8%
2021	+32.6%	+32.1%
2022	+38.6%	+35.4%
2023	+42.6%	+42.9%
2024	+49.4%	+49.5%

Calendar years	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
2014	1.0/1k	3.3/1k
2015	1.1/1k	3.7/1k
2016	1.3/1k	3.7/1k
2017	1.4/1k	3.9/1k
2018	1.6/1k	4.1/1k
2019	1.0/1k	4.2/1k
2020	1.3/1k	4.4/1k
2021	4.0/1k	5.2/1k
2022	3.2/1k	5.0/1k
2023	3.3/1k	4.5/1k
2024	3.5/1k	4.3/1k
2025	3.1/1k	4.2/1k

Calendar years	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
2014	−7.4%	−6.9%
2015	−3.2%	−3.2%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	+5.3%	+4.7%
2018	+5.8%	+7.5%
2019	+25.2%	+14.0%
2020	+17.7%	+16.9%
2021	+15.3%	+21.0%
2022	+21.6%	+29.7%
2023	+29.6%	+34.9%
2024	+58.2%	+41.6%

Calendar years	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
2014	−12.1% (Dec 2014)	−10.8% (Dec 2014)
2015	−6.6% (Dec 2015)	−5.2% (Dec 2015)
2016	0.0% (Dec 2016)	0.0% (Dec 2016)
2017	+4.8% (Dec 2017)	+6.4% (Dec 2017)
2018	+10.6% (Dec 2018)	+12.6% (Dec 2018)
2019	+22.6% (Dec 2019)	+18.1% (Dec 2019)
2020	+38.7% (Dec 2020)	+29.3% (Dec 2020)
2021	+65.4% (Dec 2021)	+49.8% (Dec 2021)
2022	+80.0% (Dec 2022)	+64.7% (Dec 2022)
2023	+89.6% (Dec 2023)	+69.0% (Dec 2023)
2024	+97.5% (Dec 2024)	+73.4% (Dec 2024)
2025	+102.1% (Dec 2025)	+73.7% (Dec 2025)

Calendar years	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
2014	7.7%	6.2%
2015	7.5%	5.3%
2016	7.2%	4.9%
2017	6.5%	4.4%
2018	5.3%	3.9%
2019	5.3%	3.7%
2020	7.6%	8.1%
2021	7.1%	5.4%
2022	4.2%	3.7%
2023	3.9%	3.6%
2024	4.3%	4.0%
2025	4.5%	4.3%

Calendar years	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
2014	24.5%	15.5%
2015	19.8%	14.7%
2016	18.6%	14.0%
2017	17.5%	13.4%
2018	17.3%	13.1%
2019	17.6%	12.3%
2020	15.5%	11.9%
2021	18.8%	12.8%
2022	18.8%	12.6%
2023	17.3%	12.5%
2024	15.0%	12.1%

Calendar years	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
2015	—	−3.3% (Dec 2015)
2016	—	0.0% (Dec 2016)
2017	—	+4.4% (Dec 2017)
2018	—	+8.8% (Dec 2018)
2019	—	+13.1% (Dec 2019)
2020	—	+15.2% (Dec 2020)
2021	—	+32.8% (Dec 2021)
2022	—	+42.1% (Dec 2022)
2023	— (Dec 2023)	+46.3% (Dec 2023)
2024	—	+50.4% (Dec 2024)
2025	— (Dec 2025)	+53.5% (Dec 2025)

Calendar years	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
2014	17.2%	13.5%
2015	14.3%	10.9%
2016	10.7%	10.0%
2017	10.9%	10.2%
2018	12.3%	10.4%
2019	12.6%	10.8%
2020	11.4%	10.4%
2021	12.6%	10.2%
2022	10.8%	9.5%
2023	12.0%	9.5%
2024	14.0%	9.8%

Calendar years	Valencia County, New Mexico	United States
2014	4.5/1k	8.5/1k
2015	4.2/1k	8.7/1k
2016	4.8/1k	9.1/1k
2017	4.8/1k	9.8/1k
2018	4.6/1k	10.7/1k
2019	5.4/1k	10.6/1k
2020	6.0/1k	13.1/1k
2021	8.0/1k	16.2/1k
2022	8.9/1k	15.1/1k
2023	9.9/1k	16.2/1k
2024	9.2/1k	15.4/1k
2025	10.8/1k	16.6/1k

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