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Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico

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The village of Ruidoso Downs is located in Lincoln County.

Ruidoso Downs is 1,950 feet [594.36 m] above sea level.<1>

Time Zone: Ruidoso Downs lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time.

We searched for American and Canadian communities that also have the name of Ruidoso Downs, but it seems to be unique to this community.

At the time of the 2000 Census, Ruidoso Downs had a population of 1,824 people<2> (or 9.34% of the total population of Lincoln County). The population of Ruidoso Downs represented 0.1% of the total of New Mexico, making it the state's 47th most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Ruidoso Downs had a population of 2,637 people. This is an increase of 44.57% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Ruidoso Downs.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000
Year-to-Year Change
20082,637+44.57% 
20072,638+44.63%-1.35% since 2006
20062,674+46.6% 
20052,672+46.49% 
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20001,824The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<3>2008
Population
Change
Since 2000
 Alamogordo   SW37 mi [59.5 km]35,7570.49% increase
 Alpine Cellars Village   NW6 mi [9.66 km]---
 Boles Acres   SW42 mi [67.6 km]---
 Capitan   N14 mi [22.53 km]1,5104.64% increase
 Carrizozo   NW27 mi [43.45 km]1,0471.06% increase
 Cloudcroft   S27 mi [43.45 km]88317.89% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Ruidoso Downs.

Website for Ruidoso Downs

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Ruidoso Downs or Lincoln County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.


Official Website:   www.ruidosodowns.us/
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People have found Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Ruidoso Downs. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

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If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Ruidoso Downs:

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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Ruidoso Downs? Please visit the Map Page for Ruidoso Downs.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Ruidoso Downs - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Ruidoso Downs.

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<3>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Ruidoso Downs and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<4>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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