Las Cruces, New Mexico

Las Cruces population, 2020 to 2024

Las Cruces added 5,277 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.7%. In the latest year it moved by +1,509. Among 35 New Mexico places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 4th; the median place changed by -0.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Mexico has 11,693 people, so Las Cruces is 10.0 times that size.

Las Cruces covers 76.93 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 1,521 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Las Cruces is denser than the typical town.

What county Las Cruces is in

All of Las Cruces's residents live in Doña Ana County, which had 229,366 residents in 2024. Las Cruces holds 51.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Las Cruces

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Las Cruces by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 88001, 88005, 88007, 88011, 88012. 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 Las Cruces is

The Census internal point of Las Cruces is at 32.326400, -106.789700. Santa Fe, the capital, is 236.9 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is El Paso, TX (681,723 people), 39.1 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 1,190 m (3,904 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Las Cruces

At 32.33° N, Las Cruces gets about 14 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Las Cruces daylight page.

Places near Las Cruces

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Mesilla, 4.1 miles away, with 1,828 people.