Curry County area

Population and density of Curry County

The Census Bureau estimates that 46,655 people lived in Curry County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,071 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #12 of 33 in New Mexico. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 48,428, the population has declined by 1,773 (−3.7%), compared with +0.4% for New Mexico as a whole.

With 1,405.5 square miles of land, that is 33 people per square mile (13 per km²), placing Curry County #1,912 nationally for density and #7 in New Mexico. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the New Mexico median is 6.9. Put another way, there are about 19 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Curry County

4 incorporated places lie at least partly in Curry County. Together they are home to 38,727 people (83%); the other 7,928 (17%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Clovis city, with 37,127 residents in the county.

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Curry County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Curry County is a central county of the Clovis, NM Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 65,270 residents on 3,851.6 square miles of land; Curry County accounts for 36.5% of the land and 71.5% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #39 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #139 by population.

ZIP codes

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Curry County; 5 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

88101881038811288118881208812488135

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Curry County

Curry County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 3 in Texas. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Quay County (2,874 mi²) and the smallest is Bailey County (827 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Curry County forms a block of 9,930.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.2%.

How big is Curry County compared with U.S. states?

Curry County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.4 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.4 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). New Mexico’s county land could hold about 86 areas the size of Curry County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 37.5 miles (60.3 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Curry County?

Curry County has more land than 2,794 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Curry County at #489 nationally by total area, 61 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 0.2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.9 percentage points lower. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Curry County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.