4,096 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.3% since 2020)
1,926 square miles of land · 2 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.
15 active community water systems list Mora County in the area they serve, reporting 3,881 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MORA MDWCA & SWA groundwater · local government · NM3516218 | 1,100 served |
| WAGON MOUND WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3516618 | 402 served |
| AGUA PURA MDWCA groundwater · local government · NM3545618 | 357 served |
| UPPER HOLMAN MDWCA groundwater · local government · NM3535518 | 325 served |
| CLEVELAND MDWCA groundwater · local government · NM3515518 | 270 served |
| SAN ANTONIO DE CLEVELAND MDWCA groundwater · local government · NM3535618 | 269 served |
| AGUA NEGRA MDWCA groundwater · local government · NM3515918 | 242 served |
| BUENA VISTA MDWC & SWA groundwater · local government · NM3515418 | 225 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 12 people were held in Mora County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 548 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 13.
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 Mora County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $10.9 million — $10.6 million to run schools, about $24,554 per student, plus $265,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1 million local (mostly property tax), $7.6 million state, $3.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $220,000.
Spent $3.3 million — $3.2 million to run schools, about $37,988 per student, plus $111,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $334,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.6 million state, $440,000 federal. Long-term debt: $520,000.
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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Mora County about $7.1 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.
79 bridges in Mora County: 24 in good condition, 50 fair, and 5 poor (6.3%). “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.
| 33-C013 over MORA RIVER · built 1940 | 189 vehicles a day |
| NM-161 over MORA RIVER · built 1975 | 81 vehicles a day |
| NM-161 over CEBOLLA CREEK · built 1980 | 81 vehicles a day |
| FR-2151 over OCATE CREEK · built 1954 | 52 vehicles a day |
| FR-2151 over WOLF CREEK · built 1953 | 37 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $10.6 million of work in Mora County in fiscal 2025, about $2,535 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 Mora 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 Mora County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: San Miguel County (36 mi) · Colfax County (46 mi) · Taos County (57 mi) · Harding County (60 mi) · Santa Fe County (67 mi) · Guadalupe County (77 mi).