Ranking of New Mexico Counties By Percentage of Population that are Hispanic Black or African American in 2021

Updated on June 18, 2025.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2021, among all New Mexico counties, Curry County had the highest percentage of its population who identified their ethnicity as Hispanic Black or African American (1.55%), followed by Chaves County (1.07%), and Lea County (0.96%).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all New Mexico counties.

You can see similar ranking information for other racial and ethnicity groups in the United States.

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Ranking of New Mexico Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Hispanic Black or African American in 2021
Curry
Chaves
Lea
Bernalillo
Guadalupe
Otero
Mora
Hidalgo
Luna
Torrance
Ranking of New Mexico Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Hispanic Black or African American in 2021
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Rank County % of County Population
1 Curry County 1.55
2 Chaves County 1.07
3 Lea County 0.96
4 Bernalillo County 0.95
5 Guadalupe County 0.93
6 Otero County 0.91
7 Mora County 0.88
8 Hidalgo County 0.86
9 Luna County 0.82
9 Torrance County 0.82
10 Doña Ana County 0.8
11 Roosevelt County 0.77
12 Quay County 0.72
13 Eddy County 0.71
13 Valencia County 0.71
14 Sandoval County 0.65
15 San Miguel County 0.63
16 Socorro County 0.53
17 Colfax County 0.5
18 De Baca County 0.48
18 Harding County 0.48
19 Grant County 0.47
19 Lincoln County 0.47
20 Cibola County 0.45
21 Rio Arriba County 0.42
22 Taos County 0.37
23 Santa Fe County 0.36
24 Catron County 0.32
25 Los Alamos County 0.28
26 Sierra County 0.22
27 San Juan County 0.21
28 McKinley County 0.2
28 Union County 0.2