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New Mexico's population consists of many mestizo Indo-Hispano groups, including Hispanos of Oasisamerican descent and Indigenous Mexican American with Mesoamerican ancestry. [149] [150] Counties in New Mexico by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
As of the 2020 census, the CSA had a population of 1,162,523. [2] Roughly 56% of New Mexico's residents live in this area. Prior to the 2013 redefinitions, the CSA consisted only of the Santa Fe metropolitan statistical area and the Española micropolitan statistical area.
New Mexico has an Hispanic majority population although many counties have a non-Hispanic white majority or plurality of population. Two counties have a Native American (Indian) plurality in their population. The state's vote for the Democratic candidate in the 2020 presidential election exceeded that of the Republican candidate.
Lack of Native American representation within the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, New Spain (current New Mexico's early government) led to the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, when groups of different Native Pueblo peoples were successful in driving the Spaniards out of New Mexico to El Paso. The Pueblo people continued running New Mexico from the ...
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New Mexico is the fifth-largest of the fifty states by area, but with just over 2.1 million residents, ranks 36th in population and 45th in population density. Its climate and geography are highly varied, ranging from forested mountains to sparse deserts; the northern and eastern regions exhibit a colder alpine climate , while the west and ...
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated two combined statistical areas, four metropolitan statistical areas, and 13 micropolitan statistical areas in New Mexico. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos, NM CSA , comprising the area around New Mexico's largest city of Albuquerque as well as its capital, Santa Fe .
As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,419. [1] The smallest county by area in the state, Los Alamos County was formerly administered exclusively by the U.S. federal government during the Manhattan Project, but it now has equal status to New Mexico's other counties.