Who's moving to and from Otero County, New Mexico?

More arrived than left in 2022–23: 4,454 people in, 4,322 out. Most were moving to or from other states.

See where they came from ↓
Net change
+132 people
+137 households
Arrivals' income
$47.7k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return
Leavers' income
$54.9k
avg income reported on the second-year tax return

Where Otero County's newcomers came from in New Mexico

Blue lines show arrivals · thicker line = more people

Moves to and from other New Mexico counties, 2022–23. Out-of-state moves, like El Paso County, TX, are listed below.

Where did newcomers come from?

About 8 in 10 came from other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. El Paso County, TX570
  2. Doña Ana County393
  3. Lincoln County156
  4. Clark County, NV142
  5. Maricopa County, AZ113
  6. Bexar County, TX94
  7. Bernalillo County77
  8. Smaller moves from many other places (each under 20 households)2,395

Where did people go?

About 8 in 10 who left went to other states. People, 2022–23.

  1. Doña Ana County394
  2. El Paso County, TX390
  3. Clark County, NV175
  4. Bernalillo County108
  5. Maricopa County, AZ102
  6. Lincoln County90
  7. Pima County, AZ73
  8. Smaller moves to many other places (each under 20 households)2,744

Some numbers are withheld

County flows may be withheld because of fewer than 20 returns or other IRS disclosure rules. We show these as —. It doesn't mean nobody moved.

Arrived from abroad
439 people
Left for abroad
251 people
Net moves with Curry County
withheld
Net moves with Chaves County
withheld

Moves abroad are never included in net change.

Is Otero usually growing from moves?

Mostly. More households arrived than left in 6 of the 10 years with published totals.

Net migration · households (tax returns)
13–1414–1515–1616–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–22+13722–23††‡†
Net migration of Otero County (Net migration · households (tax returns))
YearValue
2013–14−593
2014–15 †−160
2015–16+36
2016–17 †−283
2017–18+88
2018–19 ‡+67
2019–20+208
2020–21+32
2021–22−85
2022–23 †+137

The IRS changed its processing in 2014–15, 2016–17 and 2022–23. Compare years between the dotted lines. ‡ County disclosure-method change in 2018–19: small counts began being deleted rather than reassigned to similar categories. County figures across this break may not be comparable.

Cite this page

Moved Where. “Who's moving to and from Otero County, New Mexico?” movedwhere.com/county/otero-county-nm. Data: IRS Statistics of Income migration data, 2022–23.