Grants, New Mexico

Grants population, 2020 to 2024

Grants lost 123 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.4%. In the latest year it moved by -26. Among 35 New Mexico places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 25th; the median place changed by -0.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Mexico has 11,693 people, so Grants is 76% of it.

Grants covers 14.86 square miles of land, for 598 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Grants is less dense than the typical town.

What county Grants is in

All of Grants's residents live in Cibola County, which had 26,686 residents in 2024. Grants holds 33.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Grants

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Grants by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 87020. 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 Grants is

The Census internal point of Grants is at 35.154200, -107.832300. Santa Fe, the capital, is 112.6 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gallup, NM (20,339 people), 57.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Rio Rancho, NM, 64.6 miles away.

Daylight in Grants

At 35.15° N, Grants gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Grants

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Milan, 4.5 miles away, with 2,472 people.