1,657 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.5% since 2020)
2,323 square miles of land · 1 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.
2 active community water systems list De Baca County in the area they serve, reporting 2,243 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| FORT SUMNER MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3527706 | 1,789 served |
| VALLEY MDWCA buys groundwater · local government · NM3552206 | 454 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 20 people were held in De Baca County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 2,260 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 12.
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.
1 school district has its office in De Baca County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $6.8 million — $6.2 million to run schools, about $22,593 per student, plus $462,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $4.5 million state, $662,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.2 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost De Baca County about $2.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
24 bridges in De Baca County: 3 in good condition, 20 fair, and 1 poor (4.2%). “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.
| 11-C048 over UNNAMED WATERWAY · built 1933 | 256 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2.5 million of work in De Baca County in fiscal 2025, about $1,454 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 De Baca 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 De Baca County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Guadalupe County (42 mi) · Roosevelt County (56 mi) · Curry County (60 mi) · Chaves County (69 mi) · Quay County (70 mi) · Lincoln County (75 mi).