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County / FIPS 35003

Catron County

New Mexico

Catron County runs 5 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; New Mexico has other facilities nearby.

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At a glance

Public schools

5schools

Hospitals

0facilities

With a star rating

0facilities

Land area

6,924sq mi

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Catron County in numbers

American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.

Population

3,743people

2980th of 3,222

Median household income

Not published

Sample too small here — the margin exceeds the figure by too much to report.

Poverty rate

Not published

Sample too small here — the margin exceeds the figure by too much to report.

Unemployment rate

Not published

Sample too small here — the margin exceeds the figure by too much to report.

Median home value

Not published

Sample too small here — the margin exceeds the figure by too much to report.

Median gross rent

Not published

Sample too small here — the margin exceeds the figure by too much to report.

Bachelor's degree or higher

31.2%

± 7.9% — wide margin, not ranked

5 figures are withheld above. The Census Bureau publishes them, but with a margin of error wider than 30% of the value — which for a place this size means the survey sampled too few households to say. They are left out rather than shown with a caveat nobody reads.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates. Margins of error are the Bureau’s own, at 90% confidence; margins for rates are derived using the Bureau’s published formulas.

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Federal money

Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Catron County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.

Obligations, FY2025

$55.6M

2815th of 3,233 among counties

Per resident

$15,5412020 population

Change since FY2021

+45%nominal

Fiscal years covered

5years

Federal obligations in Catron County, FY2021–FY2025
$40M$50M$60M
$56M
202120232025
View as table
PeriodObligations
2021$38M
2022$41M
2023$58M
2024$61M
2025$56M

Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Catron County ranks 2815th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.

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Public schools in Catron County

Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.

Public schools in Catron County
SchoolDistrictCityEnrollment
Quemado ElementaryQuemado Independent SchoolsQuemado86
Quemado HighQuemado Independent SchoolsQuemado71
Reserve ElementaryReserve Public SchoolsReserve60
Datil ElementaryQuemado Independent SchoolsDatil11
Reserve HighReserve Public SchoolsReserve45
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