New Mexico Gazetteer
The Diversity Index is a scale of 0 to 100 that represents the likelyhood that two persons, chosen at random from the same area, belong to different race or ethnic groups. If an area's entire population belongs to one race AND one ethnic group, then the area has zero diversity. An area's diversity index increases to 100 when the population is evenly divided into two or more race/ethnic groups.
| County | Diversity Index | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | McKinley County | 49.7 |
| 2. | Catron County | 50.3 |
| 3. | Los Alamos County | 59.7 |
| 4. | Sierra County | 64.8 |
| 5. | De Baca County | 68.3 |
| 6. | Lincoln County | 70.7 |
| 7. | Quay County | 73.4 |
| 8. | Union County | 74.8 |
| 9. | Harding County | 75.3 |
| 10. | San Juan County | 75.6 |
| 11. | Torrance County | 76.0 |
| 12. | Colfax County | 76.0 |
| 13. | Mora County | 76.3 |
| 14. | Hidalgo County | 76.5 |
| 15. | Grant County | 76.8 |
| 16. | Guadalupe County | 77.8 |
| 17. | Roosevelt County | 78.0 |
| 18. | San Miguel County | 78.8 |
| 19. | Eddy County | 79.8 |
| 20. | Chaves County | 80.1 |
