Mora County area

Population and density of Mora County

The Census Bureau estimates that 4,051 people lived in Mora County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,959 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #28 of 33 in New Mexico. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 4,184, the population has declined by 133 (−3.2%), compared with +0.4% for New Mexico as a whole.

With 1,926.3 square miles of land, that is 2.1 people per square mile (0.81 per km²), placing Mora County #3,056 nationally for density and #27 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 304 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 Mora County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Mora County. Together they are home to 261 people (6.4%); the other 3,790 (93.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Wagon Mound village, with 261 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Mora County is an outlying county of the Las Vegas, NM Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 30,311 residents on 6,647.8 square miles of land; Mora County accounts for 29% of the land and 13.4% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #12 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #435 by population. It belongs to the Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

14 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Mora County; 12 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

8771287713877158772287723877328773487735877368774287745877508775287753

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 Mora County

Mora County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Rio Arriba County (5,860.9 mi²) and the smallest is Santa Fe County (1,910.4 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Mora County forms a block of 22,504.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 8.6%.

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

Mora County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.9 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). New Mexico’s county land could hold about 63 areas the size of Mora County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 43.9 miles (70.6 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 Mora County?

Mora County has more land than 2,928 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 Mora County at #333 nationally by total area, 39 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 0.1%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1 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 Mora 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.