Rank 33 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

New Mexico

New Mexico lost 8,713 residents to other states over this window and gained 29,970 from other countries. Net migration is positive only because the second number is larger than the first: without international arrivals, New Mexico would be losing people to migration.

Measured as counts rather than rates, the channel that moved the most people in New Mexico over 2021–2024 was international migration. That is a statement about volume, not direction: a channel can be the largest by losing.

Domestic migration−8,713−4.1 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migrationmoved the most people+29,970+14.1 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths−9,512−4.5 per 1,000 residentsNatural change. Not migration at all, and frequently mistaken for it.

Year by year

Counts of people. Bars share one scale across all 4 years and all three channels, so a short bar is a small number rather than a rescaled one.

New Mexico, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	−1,039	+2,261	21,433	24,657	−3,224
2022	−4,616	+5,702	21,441	25,427	−3,986
2023	−1,487	+9,904	21,571	22,436	−865
2024	−1,571	+12,103	20,833	22,270	−1,437

Ranked just above and below New Mexico

32Virginia−3.9 / 1,000 34Washington−4.2 / 1,000

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Vintage-year 2020 is published for a partial period and carries no companion rate, so it is excluded rather than shown alongside four full years it cannot be compared with. A work of the U.S. government: no copyright subsists (17 U.S.C. §105). Source file