47,156 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.5% since 2020)
1,406 square miles of land · 34 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.
9 active community water systems list Curry County in the area they serve, reporting 52,420 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| EPCOR WATER NEW MEXICO INC CLOVIS groundwater · private · NM3527305 | 41,066 served |
| CANNON AIR FORCE BASE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · federal · NM3567905 | 7,832 served |
| TEXICO WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3527605 | 1,426 served |
| MELROSE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3527505 | 1,296 served |
| LONGHORN ESTATES MDWCA groundwater · private · NM3520005 | 264 served |
| DESERT VILLAGE RV & MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · NM3553205 | 223 served |
| GRADY WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3527405 | 127 served |
| TURQUOISE ESTATES WATER COOP groundwater · private · NM3550905 | 97 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 147 people were held in Curry County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 486 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 208.
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 Curry County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $112.2 million — $103.1 million to run schools, about $13,451 per student, plus $7.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.1 million local (mostly property tax), $84.8 million state, $21.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $51.7 million.
Spent $9.1 million — $8.1 million to run schools, about $14,646 per student, plus $962,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.6 million local (mostly property tax), $7.4 million state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.1 million.
Spent $5.2 million — $4.8 million to run schools, about $16,166 per student, plus $418,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $506,000 local (mostly property tax), $4.5 million state, $342,000 federal. Long-term debt: $235,000.
Spent $4.1 million — $3.4 million to run schools, about $19,770 per student, plus $638,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $2.9 million state, $270,000 federal. Long-term debt: $449,000.
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 Curry County about $21.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
21 bridges in Curry County: 10 in good condition, 11 fair, and 0 poor (0.0%). “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.
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $5 million of work in Curry County in fiscal 2025, about $104 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 Curry 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 Curry County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Parmer County, TX (32 mi) · Quay County (39 mi) · Roosevelt County (39 mi) · Bailey County, TX (46 mi) · Deaf Smith County, TX (49 mi) · De Baca County (60 mi).