All Counties in New Mexico, Eviction Risk 2026
34 counties covering 518 incorporated cities and 1,817,728 residents. Statewide average landlord risk score is 3.4/10 (Low), but county-level scores vary sharply, urban counties with strong tenant protections or high rent burdens routinely score several points above rural counties.
| County↕ | Population↕ | Risk↕ | Lean↕ | Renters↕ | % income on rent↕ | Avg rent↕ | Poverty↕ | Cities↕ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | De Baca County | 1,115 | 3.8 | Rep | 40.2% | 42.7% | $387 | 39.9% | 3 |
| 02 | Doña Ana County | 4,622 | 3.8 | Dem | 22.9% | 28.3% | $643 | 30.5% | 3 |
| 03 | Curry County | 41,860 | 3.6 | Rep | 54.5% | 34.6% | $905 | 18.9% | 5 |
| 04 | Torrance County | 7,946 | 3.6 | Rep | 21.8% | 31.1% | $807 | 24.4% | 12 |
| 05 | San Juan County | 101,734 | 3.6 | Rep | 27.7% | 27.9% | $931 | 26.1% | 37 |
| 06 | Quay County | 6,153 | 3.6 | Rep | 21.9% | 30.8% | $798 | 37.6% | 4 |
| 07 | Lincoln County | 12,479 | 3.5 | Rep | 22.5% | 33.6% | $868 | 25.2% | 5 |
| 08 | McKinley County | 51,479 | 3.5 | Dem | 36.2% | 24.4% | $781 | 41.1% | 44 |
| 09 | Valencia County | 65,870 | 3.5 | Rep | 15.2% | 33.4% | $998 | 23.8% | 26 |
| 10 | Hidalgo County | 2,882 | 3.5 | Rep | 24.0% | 31.9% | $822 | 27.4% | 8 |
| 11 | Lea County | 64,464 | 3.5 | Rep | 30.8% | 29.3% | $1,078 | 16.0% | 8 |
| 12 | Sandoval County | 137,608 | 3.5 | Dem | 17.5% | 29.0% | $970 | 26.0% | 17 |
| 13 | Chaves County | 50,634 | 3.4 | Rep | 27.3% | 28.1% | $804 | 19.3% | 5 |
| 14 | Luna County | 20,583 | 3.4 | Rep | 37.3% | 29.5% | $560 | 31.4% | 12 |
| 15 | Harding County | 327 | 3.4 | Rep | 17.8% | 9.0% | $1,063 | 29.3% | 2 |
| 16 | Doña Ana County | 186,958 | 3.4 | — | 30.5% | 34.6% | $900 | 20.4% | 25 |
| 17 | Santa Fe County | 131,327 | 3.4 | Dem | 25.2% | 30.9% | $1,420 | 15.9% | 45 |
| 18 | Otero County | 45,963 | 3.4 | Rep | 39.6% | 30.9% | $922 | 24.9% | 16 |
| 19 | Taos County | 19,337 | 3.4 | Dem | 24.5% | 29.9% | $1,007 | 14.9% | 19 |
| 20 | Rio Arriba County | 12,807 | 3.3 | Dem | 23.9% | 18.5% | $655 | 22.9% | 20 |
| 21 | Roosevelt County | 12,433 | 3.3 | Rep | 22.1% | 31.9% | $891 | 21.2% | 5 |
| 22 | Bernalillo County | 642,592 | 3.3 | Dem | 21.6% | 29.1% | $1,219 | 13.1% | 29 |
| 23 | Catron County | 1,621 | 3.3 | Rep | 40.4% | 31.1% | $1,069 | 36.6% | 17 |
| 24 | Grant County | 20,773 | 3.3 | Dem | 24.5% | 32.3% | $626 | 24.4% | 26 |
| 25 | Cibola County | 22,443 | 3.3 | Dem | 36.9% | 30.8% | $738 | 37.3% | 29 |
| 26 | Eddy County | 50,166 | 3.3 | Rep | 32.0% | 27.1% | $1,238 | 12.4% | 12 |
| 27 | Union County | 3,073 | 3.3 | Rep | 29.4% | 28.1% | $652 | 18.3% | 5 |
| 28 | Colfax County | 9,249 | 3.3 | Rep | 29.3% | 25.0% | $703 | 16.3% | 6 |
| 29 | Socorro County | 11,856 | 3.2 | Dem | 39.3% | 38.0% | $705 | 44.1% | 12 |
| 30 | San Miguel County | 16,904 | 3.2 | Dem | 26.8% | 41.6% | $940 | 26.5% | 10 |
| 31 | Sierra County | 9,886 | 3.2 | Rep | 41.4% | 30.2% | $736 | 45.4% | 12 |
| 32 | Los Alamos County | 46,098 | 3.2 | Dem | 24.0% | 25.9% | $1,015 | 15.9% | 31 |
| 33 | Mora County | 1,119 | 3.2 | Dem | 31.1% | 15.8% | $769 | 12.7% | 3 |
| 34 | Guadalupe County | 3,367 | 3.2 | Dem | 45.5% | 25.4% | $640 | 23.2% | 5 |
Understanding county eviction risk in New Mexico
New Mexico's 34 counties span eviction-risk scores from 3.2 in Guadalupe County to 3.8 in De Baca County , a 0.7-point gap that captures how unevenly rent burdens, renter populations, and local tenant politics are distributed across the state. The statewide average sits at 3.4/10 (Low), but that single figure hides far more than it reveals, the table above scores every county on the same 1–10 scale so you can see exactly where landlord exposure concentrates.
The counties carrying the most eviction risk, De Baca County, Doña Ana County, Curry County, are New Mexico's denser, higher-cost markets. In De Baca County, renters spend an average of 43% of household income on rent, and 40% of its homes are renter-occupied, the cost pressure that pushes filings up and pulls tenant-protection ordinances into local politics. Larger metros also concentrate the legal-aid networks and renter-organizing capacity that lift a county's score above the rural baseline.
At the other end of the table, Guadalupe County, Mora County, Los Alamos County score lowest. These tend to be smaller, more rural counties where homeownership is the norm, rent-to-income ratios run lower, and local rent-control or just-cause ordinances are rare or state-preempted. Evictions still happen there, but the structural pressure that drives a high score (heavy rent burden, a large renter majority, organized tenant advocacy) is simply weaker.
Each county score is a population-weighted aggregate of every city scored inside it, so a county with one expensive urban core and a dozen quiet suburbs lands somewhere in between. Click any county row to drill into its cities ranked one by one, a zoomed heat map, and a full breakdown of rent burden, renter share, poverty rate, and political margin. For the statutes that apply statewide regardless of county, notice periods, security-deposit caps, just-cause and rent-control rules, see the New Mexico state overview.