The population of Rio Arriba county is estimated at 39,158. In 2017 there were 516 births and 441 deaths in Rio Arriba county. Rio Arriba county has 5,221 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 7,307 that are owned free and clear and 3,240 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Rio Arriba County filed 16,450 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.8% of all New Mexico filings and 0.011% of the entire nation. Rio Arriba had a combined total federal tax liability of $90,218,000 on earned income of $682,150,000. Other notable statistics from Rio Arriba County were 540 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,379,000 and 1,970 charitable contributions valued at $7,340,000. 2,080 filings from Rio Arriba County paid a combined total of $3,515,000 in property taxes and 1,800 filings paid $13,292,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Rio Arriba county had 86 religious congregations with an estimated 26,106 members.
18.5% of the Rio Arriba population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 14.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 38% of Rio Arriba County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 472 votes.
At $36,977 the median income is 78.5% of the New Mexico average. An estimated 1,076 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Rio Arriba, the equivalant of around 6.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 7.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Rio Arriba County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,878	Health care and social assistance
1,089	Accommodation and food services
1,068	Retail trade
740	Ambulatory health care services
648	Food services and drinking places
635	Restaurants and other eating places
441	Accommodation
241	Outpatient care centers
188	Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers
188	Building material and supplies dealers
187	Credit intermediation and related activities
180	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
168	Information
167	Depository credit intermediation
129	Arts, entertainment, and recreation

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