Elephant Butte, New Mexico

Elephant Butte population, 2020 to 2024

Elephant Butte lost 13 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.9%. In the latest year it moved by -16.

Elephant Butte covers 4.18 square miles of land, for 344 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Elephant Butte is less dense than the typical town.

What county Elephant Butte is in

All of Elephant Butte's residents live in Sierra County, which had 11,389 residents in 2024. Elephant Butte holds 12.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elephant Butte

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Elephant Butte by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 87935. 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 Elephant Butte is

The Census internal point of Elephant Butte is at 33.182400, -107.221600. Santa Fe, the capital, is 187.5 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Truth or Consequences, NM (5,942 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Las Cruces, NM, 64.2 miles away.

Daylight in Elephant Butte

At 33.18° N, Elephant Butte gets about 14 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Elephant Butte

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Truth or Consequences, 5.0 miles away, with 5,942 people.