Census Data for Oil Center

As far as we can tell, Oil Center has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.

While we don't have census information for Oil Center, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:

• Eunice
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Eunice is located in Lea County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eunice
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eunice <1>
• Hobbs
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Hobbs is located in Lea County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobbs
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hobbs <1>
• Jal
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
  • Jal is located in Lea County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jal
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jal <1>

Lea County ...

Oil Center is located in Lea County<2>.

For more information, please visit our Census Page for Lea County.

Miscellaneous Information for Oil Center ...

The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Lea County or the community of Oil Center:

• The GNIS Codes ...
  • The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Oil Center:
  • GNIS ID for Oil Center: 899817
  • GNIS ID for Lea County: 1702365
  • GNIS ID for State of New Mexico: 897535

• The FIPS Codes ...
  • An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):
  • State Code: 35 (New Mexico)
  • County Code: 025 (Lea County)
  • Place Code: 53170 (Oil Center)
  • State & County Code: 35/025 (New Mexico / Lea County)
  • State & Place Code: 35/53170 (New Mexico / Oil Center)

• Misc. Census Codes ...
  • Oil Center is located in Census Region #4 (the West Region) and Division #8 (the Mountain Division).

For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Oil Center.