Jal, New Mexico

Jal population, 2020 to 2024

Jal lost 7 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +44.

Jal covers 4.82 square miles of land, for 455 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Jal is less dense than the typical town.

What county Jal is in

All of Jal's residents live in Lea County, which had 75,151 residents in 2024. Jal holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Jal

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Jal by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 88252. 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 Jal is

The Census internal point of Jal is at 32.114800, -103.190000. Santa Fe, the capital, is 292.6 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kermit, TX (5,909 people), 18.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Odessa, TX, 52.1 miles away.

Daylight in Jal

At 32.11° N, Jal gets about 14 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Jal

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Eunice, 22.3 miles away, with 3,068 people.