Gallup, New Mexico

Gallup population, 2020 to 2024

Gallup lost 1,462 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -6.7%. In the latest year it moved by -189. Among 35 New Mexico places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 35th; the median place changed by -0.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Mexico has 11,693 people, so Gallup is 1.7 times that size.

Gallup covers 20.19 square miles of land, for 1,007 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Gallup is close to the typical town.

What county Gallup is in

All of Gallup's residents live in McKinley County, which had 68,945 residents in 2024. Gallup holds 29.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gallup

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gallup by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 87301. 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 Gallup is

The Census internal point of Gallup is at 35.513800, -108.743700. Santa Fe, the capital, is 157.9 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Farmington, NM (46,262 people), 91.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rio Rancho, NM, 116.3 miles away.

Daylight in Gallup

At 35.51° N, Gallup gets about 14 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gallup

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Milan, 52.7 miles away, with 2,472 people.