Demographics

As of the census

Census

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of 2000, there were 3,379 people, 1,220 households, and 854 families residing in the city. The population density

Population density

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 was 403.1 people per square mile (155.7/km²). There were 1,414 housing units at an average density of 168.7 per square mile (65.1/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 80.70% White, 0.56% African American, 0.77% Native American, 0.50% Asian, 13.97% from other races

Race (United States Census)

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, and 3.49% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 74.43% of the population.

There were 1,220 households out of which 36.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.5% were married couples

Marriage

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 living together, 18.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.0% were non-families. 27.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.70 and the average family size was 3.31.

In the city the population was spread out with 31.9% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 18.9% from 45 to 64, and 15.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 94.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.4 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $21,036, and the median income for a family was $28,026. Males had a median income of $25,952 versus $18,177 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

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 for the city was $10,877. About 28.6% of families and 32.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 47.5% of those under age 18 and 19.3% of those age 65 or over.

Airports

• Lordsburg Municipal Airport, private, charter and military. (First airport in NM)
• El Paso International Airport
  El Paso International Airport
  El Paso International Airport is a public airport located four miles northeast of the central business district of the City of El Paso, in El Paso County, Texas, USA....
  
  , 160 miles (257.5 km) east of Lordsburg, is the nearest public airport with scheduled passenger flights.
• Tucson International Airport
  Tucson International Airport
  Tucson International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport located six miles south of the central business district of Tucson, in Pima County, Arizona, United States, and is the second largest and busiest airport in Arizona, after Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix.- Overview...
  
  , 180 miles (289.7 km) west of Lordsburg.

Rail

• Amtrak
  Amtrak
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  's Sunset Limited
  Sunset Limited
  The Sunset Limited is a passenger train that for most of its history has run between New Orleans, Louisiana and Los Angeles, California, and that from early 1993 through late August 2005 also ran east of New Orleans to Jacksonville, Florida, making it during that time the only true transcontinental...
  
   and Texas Eagle
  Texas Eagle
  The Texas Eagle is a 1306-mile passenger train route operated by Amtrak in the central and western United States. Trains run daily between Chicago, Illinois, and San Antonio, Texas, and continue to Los Angeles, California, 2728 miles total, three days a week...
  
   routes stop at Lordsburg Train Station
  Lordsburg (Amtrak station)
  The Lordsburg, New Mexico is located at Center St. and S.P. Blvd. in Lordsburg, New Mexico. Of the seven New Mexico stations served by Amtrak, Lordsburg was the seventh-busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of approximately one passenger daily.-External links:**...
  
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• The Union Pacific Railroad
  Union Pacific Railroad
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  's mainline and the Arizona Eastern Railway with its branch to Clifton, Arizona
  Clifton, Arizona
  Clifton is a town in and the county seat of Greenlee County, Arizona, United States, along the San Francisco River. The population of the town was 3,311 at the 2010 census. It was a site of the Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983....
  
  serve Lordsburg.

External links

• Chamber of Commerce