# Counties in New Mexico by employer firms, 2023

All 33 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `employer_firms`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Number of firms in the private nonfarm sectors covered by the US Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics. Establishments under common ownership form one firm.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: employer firms, all covered industries, nation, states and counties (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics: employer firms, all covered industries, nation, states and counties. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-firms/new-mexico-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Bernalillo County | 12,094 |
| 2 | Santa Fe County | 3,951 |
| 3 | Doña Ana County | 3,000 |
| 4 | San Juan County | 1,950 |
| 5 | Sandoval County | 1,537 |
| 6 | Lea County | 1,393 |
| 7 | Eddy County | 1,252 |
| 8 | Chaves County | 1,100 |
| 9 | Taos County | 887 |
| 10 | Curry County | 861 |
| 11 | Otero County | 803 |
| 12 | Valencia County | 788 |
| 13 | McKinley County | 712 |
| 14 | Lincoln County | 603 |
| 15 | Grant County | 452 |
| 16 | Rio Arriba County | 444 |
| 17 | San Miguel County | 348 |
| 18 | Los Alamos County | 327 |
| 19 | Colfax County | 317 |
| 20 | Luna County | 316 |
| 21 | Roosevelt County | 284 |
| 22 | Cibola County | 283 |
| 23 | Socorro County | 198 |
| 24 | Sierra County | 192 |
| 25 | Torrance County | 189 |
| 26 | Quay County | 181 |
| 27 | Union County | 84 |
| 28 | Guadalupe County | 83 |
| 29 | Hidalgo County | 73 |
| 30 | Catron County | 59 |
| 31 | De Baca County | 45 |
| 32 | Mora County | 41 |
| 33 | Harding County | 11 |