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A QUICK 300 2019 ALBUQUERQUE

YEARS STATISTICS

Albuquerque is the largest city in New Mexico and is located in the central region of the state
along the Rio Grande. With a 2012 population of 555,400, Albuquerque is the 32nd largest city in
the United States. The estimated 2017 population of Albuquerque is just 558,000, a slight increase
from the 2010 census figures of 545,800.

Albuquerque is relatively isolated, and it’s a four-hour drive to the nearest city of similar size. The
city proper has a population estimated at 558,000, with a metropolitan population of 903,000. The
MSA includes Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, Placitas, Los Lunas, Belen, Bosque Farms and Corrales. This
makes it the 59th largest metropolitan area in the country. The Albuquerque - Santa Fe - Las Vegas
combined statistical area has a population estimated at 1.17 million.

Rate of Home Ownership 59.8% Monthly Statistical Highlights

*information provided by worldpopulationview.com* curteousy of GAAR - April 2019

© Western New Mexico University

efore Christopher Columbus Sailed to depot accidentally dropped the first 'r' on a
America the Pueblos decorated the landscape sign in the 1800s in Alburquerque and it stuck.
Bof what is now Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Over the past 300 years Albuquerque has become Albuquerque only became a n official State of
what is now a melting pot of cultures derived from the USA in 1912, a little over a hundred years
Spanish, Native American and European (mainly ago and has grown exponentially since then.
German and Irish) heritages. It began as a villa of Albuquerque today is now home to farmers,
just 18 official families and is now home to over ranchers as well as large companies such as
one million people, half in the metro area alone! Intel, Honeywell Defense & Space Electronic
Systems, General Mills and tons more.
lbuquerque began as farmland and vallies
and used to be spelled 'Alburquerque'
A. What happened? A railroad railway

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