12,307 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.4% since 2020)
3,758 square miles of land · 3 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
14 active community water systems list Colfax County in the area they serve, reporting 22,078 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF RATON/RATON WATER WORKS surface water · local government · NM3526704 | 9,733 served |
| VILLAGE OF ANGEL FIRE groundwater · local government · NM3531904 | 6,045 served |
| PHILMONT BOY SCOUT RANCH - HEADQUARTERS surface water · private · NM3530504 | 2,000 served |
| CIMARRON WATER SYSTEM surface water · local government · NM3526204 | 1,260 served |
| SPRINGER WATER SYSTEM surface water · local government · NM3526604 | 1,170 served |
| VILLAGE OF EAGLE NEST groundwater · local government · NM3531804 | 613 served |
| MAXWELL WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3526404 | 340 served |
| MAXWELL COOPERATIVE WATER USERS ASSOC groundwater · private · NM3510104 | 261 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 69 people were held in Colfax County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 982 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 48.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
4 school districts have their office in Colfax County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $14.6 million — $13.8 million to run schools, about $16,353 per student, plus $778,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.7 million local (mostly property tax), $10.1 million state, $2.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.7 million.
Spent $13.5 million — $9.3 million to run schools, about $23,214 per student, plus $4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3 million local (mostly property tax), $7.4 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $12.2 million.
Spent $4.9 million — $3.3 million to run schools, about $29,676 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $606,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.8 million state, $388,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.7 million.
Spent $3.4 million — $3.1 million to run schools, about $29,038 per student, plus $327,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $249,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.8 million state, $269,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.3 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Colfax County about $12.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
139 bridges in Colfax County: 54 in good condition, 80 fair, and 5 poor (3.6%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| L-00016 over I-25 NBLS/SBLS · built 1973 | 1,723 vehicles a day |
| NM-21 over RAYADO CREEK · built 1965 | 103 vehicles a day |
| IN-2412 over LITTLE CREEK · built 1973 | 70 vehicles a day |
| IA-2412 over LITTLE CREEK · built 1973 | 68 vehicles a day |
| NM-204 over UNNAMED WATERWAY · built 1965 | 46 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $90.9 million of work in Colfax County in fiscal 2025, about $7,342 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for New Mexico are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Colfax County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Colfax County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Mora County (46 mi) · Taos County (55 mi) · Las Animas County, CO (59 mi) · Costilla County, CO (63 mi) · Union County (65 mi) · Harding County (68 mi).