27,541 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.4% since 2020)
3,961 square miles of land · 7 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.
17 active community water systems list Grant County in the area they serve, reporting 26,073 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SILVER CITY WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3522609 | 14,400 served |
| BAYARD MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3522109 | 2,616 served |
| SANTA CLARA WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3522209 | 1,682 served |
| HURLEY, TOWN OF buys groundwater · local government · NM3500609 | 1,613 served |
| ARENAS VALLEY MDWCA buys groundwater · local government · NM3523009 | 1,204 served |
| FREEPORT MCMORAN CHINO MINES groundwater · private · NM3522409 | 1,050 served |
| TYRONE TOWNSITE buys groundwater · local government · NM3500309 | 782 served |
| CASAS ADOBES MDWCA groundwater · private · NM3510209 | 610 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 80 people were held in Grant County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 536 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 89.
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.
2 school districts have their office in Grant County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $39.7 million — $36.5 million to run schools, about $16,057 per student, plus $2.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.3 million local (mostly property tax), $28 million state, $7.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $15.9 million.
Spent $24.5 million — $23.1 million to run schools, about $22,582 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.5 million local (mostly property tax), $16.8 million state, $5.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.3 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 Grant County about $20.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
99 bridges in Grant County: 20 in good condition, 77 fair, and 2 poor (2.0%). “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.
| NM-90 over PINOS ALTOS CREEK · built 1961 | 14,699 vehicles a day |
| 17-3069 over SAPILLO CREEK · built 1986 | 191 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $33.6 million of work in Grant County in fiscal 2025, about $1,194 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 Grant 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 Grant County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Luna County (53 mi) · Greenlee County, AZ (61 mi) · Hidalgo County (61 mi) · Sierra County (74 mi) · Catron County (81 mi) · Graham County, AZ (88 mi).