Portales, New Mexico

Portales population, 2020 to 2024

Portales lost 339 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.8%. In the latest year it moved by -134. Among 35 New Mexico places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 30th; the median place changed by -0.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Mexico has 11,693 people, so Portales is 1.0 times that size.

Portales covers 8.03 square miles of land, for 1,468 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Portales is denser than the typical town.

What county Portales is in

All of Portales's residents live in Roosevelt County, which had 18,713 residents in 2024. Portales holds 63.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Portales

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Portales by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 88130. 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 Portales is

The Census internal point of Portales is at 34.177300, -103.355100. Santa Fe, the capital, is 179.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Clovis, NM (37,555 people), 20.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lubbock, TX, 94.3 miles away.

Daylight in Portales

At 34.18° N, Portales gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Portales

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Clovis, 20.3 miles away, with 37,555 people.