80,813 people (2024 Census estimate, +5.6% since 2020)
1,067 square miles of land · 76 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.
18 active community water systems list Valencia County in the area they serve, reporting 49,873 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LOS LUNAS WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3525332 | 19,400 served |
| BELEN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3524932 | 10,830 served |
| RIO COMMUNITIES WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · NM3524832 | 5,513 served |
| RIO DEL ORO WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · NM3580232 | 4,387 served |
| BOSQUE FARMS WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM groundwater · local government · NM3510732 | 4,367 served |
| MEADOW LAKE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · NM3532032 | 2,760 served |
| MONTEREY WATER COMPANY INC. groundwater · private · NM3509032 | 1,472 served |
| HI MESA WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · NM3500232 | 259 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 134 people were held in Valencia County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 270 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 157.
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 Valencia County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $127.9 million — $113.2 million to run schools, about $13,753 per student, plus $13.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.8 million local (mostly property tax), $94.3 million state, $17 million federal. Long-term debt: $60.4 million.
Spent $61.3 million — $54.8 million to run schools, about $15,218 per student, plus $5.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.3 million local (mostly property tax), $44.6 million state, $13.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $35.7 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 Valencia County about $37.5 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.
48 bridges in Valencia County: 12 in good condition, 34 fair, and 2 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.
| NM-304 over SAN JUAN MAIN CANAL · built 1951 | 2,104 vehicles a day |
| NM-109 over IRRIGATION CANAL · built 1950 | 1,406 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $44.7 million of work in Valencia County in fiscal 2025, about $586 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 Valencia 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 Valencia County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Bernalillo County (25 mi) · Socorro County (51 mi) · Torrance County (53 mi) · Sandoval County (67 mi) · Cibola County (69 mi) · Santa Fe County (73 mi).