New Mexico · Census place 3506270

Bayard, New Mexico

Bayard is a city in Grant County, New Mexico with an estimated 2,070 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 47th largest of 61 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,070
#47 of 61 in New Mexico
Change since 2020
-2.3%
-48 people
Land area
1.0 sq mi
Density
2,179 / sq mi
State median 1,067
Orange pin: Bayard. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Santa Fe.

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Bayard population, 2020 to 2024

Bayard lost 48 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +1.

2,11820202,09220212,07720222,06920232,0702024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,117. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Bayard covers 0.95 square miles of land, for 2,179 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Bayard is denser than the typical town.

What county Bayard is in

All of Bayard's residents live in Grant County, which had 27,541 residents in 2024. Bayard holds 7.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bayard

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bayard by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 88023. 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 Bayard is

The Census internal point of Bayard is at 32.758200, -108.133800. Santa Fe, the capital, is 237.7 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Silver City, NM (9,399 people), 8.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Las Cruces, NM, 83.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
32.758200, -108.133800
DMS
32°45'29.52"N 108°08'1.68"W
UTM
12N 768523.2E 3628117.5N
Geohash
9tg4777q7
Plus code
854HQV58+7F

Daylight in Bayard

At 32.76° N, Bayard gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bayard

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Santa Clara, 1.8 miles away, with 1,613 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Bayard, NM?

2,070 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 48 (2.3%) from 2,118 in July 2020.

What county is Bayard in?

Grant County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Bayard?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 88023.

How far is Bayard from Santa Fe?

237.7 miles (382.6 km) in a straight line, heading NNE from Bayard.

What is the nearest larger city to Bayard?

Silver City, NM, with 9,399 residents, 8.0 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.