Alamogordo, New Mexico

Alamogordo population, 2020 to 2024

Alamogordo added 725 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +136. Among 35 New Mexico places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 7th; the median place changed by -0.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Mexico has 11,693 people, so Alamogordo is 2.7 times that size.

Alamogordo covers 21.57 square miles of land, for 1,468 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Alamogordo is denser than the typical town.

What county Alamogordo is in

All of Alamogordo's residents live in Otero County, which had 69,711 residents in 2024. Alamogordo holds 45.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Alamogordo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Alamogordo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 88310. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Alamogordo is

The Census internal point of Alamogordo is at 32.883600, -105.963600. Santa Fe, the capital, is 193.4 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Las Cruces, NM (116,998 people), 61.6 miles away.

Daylight in Alamogordo

At 32.88° N, Alamogordo gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Alamogordo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Tularosa, 13.6 miles away, with 2,632 people.