Belen, New Mexico

Belen population, 2020 to 2024

Belen added 194 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +100. Among 35 New Mexico places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 6th; the median place changed by -0.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Mexico has 11,693 people, so Belen is 65% of it.

Belen covers 19.03 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 397 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Belen is less dense than the typical town.

What county Belen is in

All of Belen's residents live in Valencia County, which had 80,813 residents in 2024. Belen holds 9.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Belen

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Belen by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 87002, 87031. 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 Belen is

The Census internal point of Belen is at 34.766600, -106.808500. Santa Fe, the capital, is 80.0 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Los Lunas, NM (19,907 people), 2.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Albuquerque, NM, 25.1 miles away.

Daylight in Belen

At 34.77° N, Belen gets about 14 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 49 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Belen

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Los Lunas, 2.6 miles away, with 19,907 people.