One in four New Mexico children is food insecure, the median rural drive to deliver a baby is 63 minutes, three-fifths of the state's regulated dams are in poor or unsatisfactory condition, and an $8.1 billion drinking-water need sits under aquifers in decline.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Every measure carries its value, class, geography, year, definition, context and source. New Mexico's profile pairs the nation's fourth-worst child hunger and a 63-minute median drive to maternity care with a mid-pack housing ratio and an ordinarily congested single metro — the scores follow each instrument, not a state stereotype.
Three disagreements are printed rather than blended. Hospitals: CHQPR's financial screen (7 of 27 rural hospitals at risk) sits alongside the state testimony figure (6–8 could close) and a Senate scenario analysis naming 15 hospitals under hypothetical Medicaid cuts — three different instruments, all labelled. Water: the drinking-water need is ASCE's current $8.1B; the wastewater figure is the prior fact sheet's $320M because the current sheet's line could not be read cleanly — its vintage is disclosed on the measure. Dams: the poor-condition share is the State Engineer's range (60–65% of the regulated fleet) and the average age is printed at the testimony's 64 years against the 2025 Senate memorial's 65.
Power is measured from the load side: LBNL's queue dataset offers no verified New Mexico generation total, so the category prints PNM's 4,197 MW of large-load requests — the queue actually driving state planning — and says so. Food prints Map the Meal Gap's statewide modelled rates; USDA ERS food-desert tract shares were not verified at state level and are named as a gap in the category's fine print. Broadband prints the approved BEAD plan as it stands — including the July 2026 rescission of 11 awards — because a plan mid-correction is the honest picture.