New Mexico · Census place 3544420

Loving, New Mexico

Loving is a village in Eddy County, New Mexico with an estimated 1,359 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 57th largest of 61 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,359
#57 of 61 in New Mexico
Change since 2020
-1.8%
-25 people
Land area
1.2 sq mi
Density
1,123 / sq mi
State median 1,067
Orange pin: Loving. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Santa Fe.

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Loving population, 2020 to 2024

Loving lost 25 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.8%. In the latest year it moved by +15.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,387. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Loving covers 1.21 square miles of land, for 1,123 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Loving is close to the typical town.

What county Loving is in

All of Loving's residents live in Eddy County, which had 61,436 residents in 2024. Loving holds 2.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Loving

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Loving by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 88256. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Loving is

The Census internal point of Loving is at 32.286200, -104.097800. Santa Fe, the capital, is 257.3 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Carlsbad, NM (31,999 people), 11.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Odessa, TX, 106.4 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
32.286200, -104.097800
DMS
32°17'10.32"N 104°05'52.08"W
UTM
13N 584953.4E 3572516.8N
Geohash
9ttzxjw29
Plus code
854Q7WP2+FV

Daylight in Loving

At 32.29° N, Loving 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 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Loving

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Carlsbad, 11.5 miles away, with 31,999 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Loving, NM?

1,359 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 25 (1.8%) from 1,384 in July 2020.

What county is Loving in?

Eddy County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Loving?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 88256.

How far is Loving from Santa Fe?

257.3 miles (414.0 km) in a straight line, heading NNW from Loving.

What is the nearest larger city to Loving?

Carlsbad, NM, with 31,999 residents, 11.5 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.