New Mexico · Census place 3511800
Capitan, New Mexico
Capitan is a village in Lincoln County, New Mexico with an estimated 1,409 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 55th largest of 61 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 1,409
- #55 of 61 in New Mexico
- Change since 2020
- +0.6%
- +9 people
- Land area
- 3.3 sq mi
- Density
- 432 / sq mi
- State median 1,067
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Capitan population, 2020 to 2024
Capitan added 9 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +16.
Capitan covers 3.26 square miles of land, for 432 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Capitan is less dense than the typical town.
What county Capitan is in
All of Capitan's residents live in Lincoln County, which had 20,025 residents in 2024. Capitan holds 7.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Capitan
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Capitan by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 88316. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.
Where Capitan is
The Census internal point of Capitan is at 33.539200, -105.598200. Santa Fe, the capital, is 149.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ruidoso, NM (7,640 people), 13.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Las Cruces, NM, 108.6 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 33.539200, -105.598200
- DMS
- 33°32'21.12"N 105°35'53.52"W
- UTM
- 13N 444460.6E 3711225.5N
- Geohash
- 9tuyv19sp
- Plus code
- 855PGCQ2+MP
Daylight in Capitan
At 33.54° N, Capitan gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Capitan
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Ruidoso, 13.7 miles away, with 7,640 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Capitan, NM?
1,409 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 9 (0.6%) from 1,400 in July 2020.
What county is Capitan in?
Lincoln County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Capitan?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 88316.
How far is Capitan from Santa Fe?
149.3 miles (240.3 km) in a straight line, heading N from Capitan.
What is the nearest larger city to Capitan?
Ruidoso, NM, with 7,640 residents, 13.7 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.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.