Bernalillo, New Mexico

Bernalillo population, 2020 to 2024

Bernalillo added 137 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +44. Among 35 New Mexico places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 9th; the median place changed by -0.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Mexico has 11,693 people, so Bernalillo is 78% of it.

Bernalillo covers 5.22 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,755 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Bernalillo is denser than the typical town.

What county Bernalillo is in

All of Bernalillo's residents live in Sandoval County, which had 157,757 residents in 2024. Bernalillo holds 5.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bernalillo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bernalillo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 87004. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Bernalillo is

The Census internal point of Bernalillo is at 35.312400, -106.554100. Santa Fe, the capital, is 43.0 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rio Rancho, NM (112,524 people), 8.4 miles away.

Daylight in Bernalillo

At 35.31° N, Bernalillo gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bernalillo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Corrales, 6.5 miles away, with 8,530 people.