Rio Communities, New Mexico

Rio Communities population, 2020 to 2024

Rio Communities lost 6 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +12.

Rio Communities covers 7.69 square miles of land, for 641 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Rio Communities is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rio Communities is in

All of Rio Communities's residents live in Valencia County, which had 80,813 residents in 2024. Rio Communities holds 6.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rio Communities

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rio Communities by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 87002. 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 Rio Communities is

The Census internal point of Rio Communities is at 34.645200, -106.715800. Santa Fe, the capital, is 84.0 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Belen, NM (7,556 people), 9.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Albuquerque, NM, 32.0 miles away.

Daylight in Rio Communities

At 34.65° N, Rio Communities gets about 14 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rio Communities

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Belen, 9.9 miles away, with 7,556 people.