Ranking of New Mexico Counties By Percentage of Population that were White Alone from Census 2020

Updated on February 25, 2023.

According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census for New Mexico counties, in April 2020, among all New Mexico counties, Catron County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as White Alone (82.73%), followed by De Baca County (76.44%), and Sierra County (76.15%).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all New Mexico counties based on the percentage of the population that identified as White Alone.

You can see similar ranking information for other states. You can also see similar rankings of counties for other racial groups as well as for the different ethnicities in New Mexico.

Ranking of New Mexico Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
Catron
De Baca
Sierra
Los Alamos
Quay
Lincoln
Union
Colfax
Harding
Torrance
Ranking of New Mexico Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
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Rank County White Alone % of County Pop.
1 Catron County 82.73
2 De Baca County 76.44
3 Sierra County 76.15
4 Los Alamos County 74.74
5 Quay County 70.67
6 Lincoln County 70.37
7 Union County 66.49
8 Colfax County 65.69
9 Harding County 65.15
10 Torrance County 65.15
11 Grant County 64.81
12 Hidalgo County 63.55
13 Roosevelt County 62.06
14 Eddy County 58.20
15 Curry County 57.67
16 Santa Fe County 57.43
17 Otero County 56.26
18 Chaves County 56.25
19 Taos County 55.33
20 Sandoval County 54.77
21 Bernalillo County 52.21
22 Valencia County 51.76
23 Luna County 50.33
24 Socorro County 48.80
25 Mora County 48.22
26 Doña Ana County 47.46
27 Guadalupe County 46.43
28 Lea County 46.07
29 San Miguel County 45.52
30 San Juan County 41.44
31 Rio Arriba County 34.35
32 Cibola County 29.74
33 McKinley County 10.48