Peralta, New Mexico

Peralta population, 2020 to 2024

Peralta added 116 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.5%. In the latest year it moved by +52.

Peralta covers 4.45 square miles of land, for 780 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Peralta is less dense than the typical town.

What county Peralta is in

All of Peralta's residents live in Valencia County, which had 80,813 residents in 2024. Peralta holds 4.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Peralta

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Peralta by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 87042. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Peralta is

The Census internal point of Peralta is at 34.828400, -106.686000. Santa Fe, the capital, is 72.5 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bosque Farms, NM (4,138 people), 1.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Albuquerque, NM, 19.2 miles away.

Daylight in Peralta

At 34.83° N, Peralta gets about 14 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 49 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Peralta

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Bosque Farms, 1.9 miles away, with 4,138 people.