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1898
Advert for WIA program in Las Cruces, 30 September 1898, 1898
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About Las Cruces
City in New Mexico, United StatesLas Cruces (; Spanish: [las 'kruses]; lit. 'the crosses') is a city in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States, and its county seat. The population was 111,385 at the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in New Mexico, and the largest in both Doña Ana County and southern New Mexico. It is the principal city of the Las Cruces metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Doña Ana County and had an estimated 230,000 residents in 2024. The city is also part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces combined statistical area. Las Cruces is the economic and geographic center of the Mesilla Valley, the agricultural region on the floodplain of the Rio Grande, which extends from…
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How Las Cruces ranks
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Housing in Las Cruces
The typical Las Cruces home is worth about $290,000, down 0.7% in a year, 9% below the New Mexico typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Las Cruces
Safety Grade D-
Las Cruces reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 96% report less.
Work & commute in Las Cruces
Full picture →60% of Las Cruces’s working residents work right in town. The top destinations are University Park (6%), El Paso (5%) and Albuquerque (4%). Half commute less than 4 miles.
Health in Las Cruces
Health Grade B−
Healthier than 49% of U.S. towns on seven CDC estimates, and 81% of towns with similar incomes.
Compared with New Mexico
of 32 measures CDC estimates. The other 31 are too close to call.
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Natural hazards in Las Cruces
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 39% of U.S. communities.
Climate in Las Cruces
Full climate →Las Cruces has mild winters and hot summers, with very little rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 96°, a January night drops to 28°, and about 1 inches of snow falls in a normal winter.
Schools in Las Cruces
All Las Cruces schools →School Grade A
The public schools Las Cruces’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 87% of New Mexico’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within NM. Ratings are from neighbors.
Las Cruces is a college town
Colleges →of Las Cruces’s residents are enrolled in college. New Mexico State University has about 11,680 students on campus, and 2 more colleges are in town.
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