Southern New Mexico Community Development
Collaborative community development and revitalization partnerships across rural southern New Mexico.
Highlighting NM assets to bring community and economic development.
Southern New Mexico is the ideal place to experience the landscape, celebrate the beauty of our region, embrace the rich history and enjoy a higher quality of life. Our smallest towns have some of the best living and greatest opportunities for saving what we most enjoy. And in southern NM, we want to do everything we can to restore, rebuild and further develop our communities for today and years into the future.
Our community-asset based approach highlights the strengths of SoNM while preserving essential agricultural, cultural and historical landmarks.
Grow Collaborations
Highlight Assets
Invest in the Future
Plan
SNMCD will expand the bandwidth for rural communities to pursue economic and community development programs by focusing on assets to attract new partners and collaborations, pursuing new funding opportunities, grant writing, project management, and supporting the vision of area elected officials.
Rural New Mexico
Southern New Mexico communities run deep with an incredible combination of peoples, cultures, businesses and pride in the landscape.
With just over 17.5 people per square mile, NM is the 45th least densely populated state in the U.S. NM covers 121,589 square miles, or the 5th largest state in the Union.
Southern NM has 7.1 people per square mile with a total population of almost 557,600, covering approximately 39,640 square miles. This is still larger than 6 of the smallest states combined.
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