61,436 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.5% since 2020)
4,176 square miles of land · 15 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 Eddy County in the area they serve, reporting 61,523 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3520608 | 33,626 served |
| ARTESIA MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3520308 | 15,176 served |
| OTIS MDWCA groundwater · local government · NM3521308 | 4,464 served |
| ARTESIA RURAL WATER COOPERATIVE groundwater · private · NM3530608 | 1,950 served |
| LOVING WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3521108 | 1,862 served |
| COTTONWOOD WATER MDWCA groundwater · local government · NM3555008 | 1,781 served |
| MALAGA MDWC SWA groundwater · local government · NM3521208 | 868 served |
| HAPPY VALLEY COOPERATIVE WATER WORKS groundwater · private · NM3520708 | 638 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 202 people were held in Eddy County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 531 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 250.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Eddy County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $150.2 million — $94.5 million to run schools, about $13,304 per student, plus $51.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $164.8 million local (mostly property tax), $73.2 million state, $11.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $99.9 million.
Spent $66.3 million — $49.6 million to run schools, about $13,325 per student, plus $16.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $23.4 million local (mostly property tax), $38.5 million state, $7 million federal.
Spent $17 million — $10.4 million to run schools, about $16,145 per student, plus $5.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.4 million local (mostly property tax), $8.4 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $30.4 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Eddy County about $43.8 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.
94 bridges in Eddy County: 37 in good condition, 57 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 $15.7 million of work in Eddy County in fiscal 2025, about $251 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 Eddy 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 Eddy County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Lea County (57 mi) · Loving County, TX (61 mi) · Chaves County (63 mi) · Culberson County, TX (71 mi) · Winkler County, TX (85 mi) · Otero County (85 mi).