Silver City, New Mexico

Silver City population, 2020 to 2024

Silver City lost 316 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.3%. In the latest year it moved by +5. Among 35 New Mexico places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 31st; the median place changed by -0.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Mexico has 11,693 people, so Silver City is 80% of it.

Silver City covers 10.12 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 929 people per square mile of land. The median New Mexico place of 5,000+ has 1,067, so Silver City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Silver City is in

All of Silver City's residents live in Grant County, which had 27,541 residents in 2024. Silver City holds 34.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Silver City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Silver City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 88061. 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 Silver City is

The Census internal point of Silver City is at 32.778600, -108.269400. Santa Fe, the capital, is 240.7 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Deming, NM (15,272 people), 46.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Las Cruces, NM, 91.7 miles away.

Daylight in Silver City

At 32.78° N, Silver City gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Silver City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Mexico, measured between internal points. The closest is Santa Clara, 7.0 miles away, with 1,613 people.