Compare New Mexico sheriff department costs
Sheriff department cost and staffing across all 33 counties. Click a column header to sort. Hover a column header to see what it measures. Data as of 2026-07-24.
| County | Population | Budget | $/resident | Sworn / 100k res | Custody / 100k res | Beds / 100k res |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bernalillo County | 674,692 | — | — | 46.5 | 90.4 | — |
| Catron County | 3,635 | — | — | 137.6 | 0.0 | — |
| Chaves County | 64,701 | — | — | 54.1 | 89.6 | — |
| Cibola County | 27,211 | — | — | 58.8 | 18.4 | — |
| Colfax County | 12,370 | — | — | 97.0 | 129.3 | — |
| Curry County | 48,327 | — | — | 4.1 | 124.2 | — |
| De Baca County | 1,695 | — | — | 236.0 | 531.0 | — |
| Doña Ana County | 219,870 | — | — | 62.8 | 87.3 | — |
| Eddy County | 61,264 | — | — | 81.6 | 102.8 | — |
| Grant County | 28,006 | — | — | 225.0 | 7.1 | — |
| Guadalupe County | 4,413 | — | — | 181.3 | 0.0 | — |
| Harding County | 671 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hidalgo County | 4,160 | — | — | 216.3 | 456.7 | — |
| Lea County | 73,103 | — | — | 105.3 | 124.5 | — |
| Lincoln County | 20,222 | — | — | 108.8 | 0.0 | — |
| Los Alamos County | 19,253 | — | — | 161.0 | 72.7 | — |
| Luna County | 25,393 | — | — | 106.3 | 291.4 | — |
| McKinley County | 72,073 | — | — | 48.6 | 54.1 | — |
| Mora County | 4,208 | — | — | 166.3 | 0.0 | — |
| Otero County | 67,850 | — | — | 64.8 | 59.0 | — |
| Quay County | 8,641 | — | — | 69.4 | 185.2 | — |
| Rio Arriba County | 40,285 | — | — | 54.6 | 81.9 | — |
| Roosevelt County | 19,142 | — | — | 88.8 | 130.6 | — |
| Sandoval County | 149,460 | — | — | 40.8 | 48.8 | — |
| San Juan County | 121,798 | — | — | 70.6 | 118.2 | — |
| San Miguel County | 27,215 | — | — | 0.0 | 124.9 | — |
| Santa Fe County | 154,481 | — | — | 47.3 | 81.6 | — |
| Sierra County | 11,506 | — | — | 95.6 | 139.1 | — |
| Socorro County | 16,453 | — | — | 85.1 | 158.0 | — |
| Taos County | 34,475 | — | — | 78.3 | 69.6 | — |
| Torrance County | 15,203 | — | — | 105.2 | 0.0 | — |
| Union County | 4,074 | — | — | 122.7 | 0.0 | — |
| Valencia County | 76,613 | — | — | 114.9 | 14.4 | — |
A note on data vintages and definitions. Population is the US Census Bureau's 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-year estimate. Sheriff staffing comes from the US Census Bureau's Census of Governments - Employment 2022 (March reference period); headcount equals full-time plus part-time positions across function codes 062 (sworn law enforcement), 162 (civilian law enforcement), and 005 (corrections). The Census publishes no true full-time-equivalent figures, and the March payroll snapshot is not directly comparable to a full annual operating budget. County jail data has not yet been loaded for New Mexico. New Mexico has no state agency that inspects or certifies county jails; NMSA 33-3-4 instead directs each county's own governing body to conduct its jail's annual self-inspection, so county jail facility data is otherwise available only through the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics' Annual Survey of Jails. Sheriff department budget data has not yet been loaded for New Mexico. Sheriff names were collected from the New Mexico Sheriffs' Association directory and machine-verified against county sources in July 2026; all 33 counties are named. Rio Arriba County's sheriff, Lorenzo Aguilar, is an interim appointee, seated April 21, 2025, following the elected sheriff's death. Los Alamos County, New Mexico's sole incorporated county, retains an elected sheriff, but the office's law-enforcement duties were reassigned to the Los Alamos Police Department by the County Council in 2016.