Counties in New Mexico by job creation rate

Torrance County had the highest job creation rate of 33 counties in 2017, at 22.044%. Mora County had the lowest, at 5.921%. The median was 11.344% and the figure for New Mexico was 12.142%. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest22.044Torrance County

Lowest5.921Mora County

Median11.34433 counties

New Mexico12.142History

Map of counties, 2017

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%, 2017. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

All counties, 2017

%. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Counties	2017 (%)	Change on 2016
1	Torrance County	22.044	+13.73 pts
2	Harding County	18.421	-12.75 pts
3	Rio Arriba County	18.24	+7.95 pts
4	Taos County	18.162	+5.09 pts
5	Lea County	15.569	+5.82 pts
6	Catron County	14.783	+9.27 pts
7	Doña Ana County	13.957	+0.36 pts
8	Lincoln County	13.85	+3.29 pts
9	Eddy County	13.54	+2.13 pts
10	Los Alamos County	12.406	-7.88 pts
11	Guadalupe County	12.232	-3.68 pts
12	Luna County	12.202	+0.04 pts
13	De Baca County	11.934	+3.62 pts
14	Roosevelt County	11.818	+2.54 pts
15	Bernalillo County	11.67	-0.59 pts
16	Colfax County	11.649	-3.26 pts
17	Santa Fe County	11.344	+1.13 pts
18	Sandoval County	11.242	-4.09 pts
19	Otero County	10.913	-0.5 pts
20	Valencia County	10.899	-0.75 pts
21	San Juan County	10.845	+1.59 pts
22	Sierra County	10.574	-2.98 pts
23	Chaves County	10.514	+0.32 pts
24	McKinley County	9.87	+0.57 pts
25	Grant County	9.791	-0.43 pts
26	Cibola County	9.618	+0.24 pts
27	Curry County	9.45	-1.54 pts
28	San Miguel County	9.38	+2.54 pts
29	Quay County	9.13	-0.83 pts
30	Socorro County	8.204	-4.34 pts
31	Hidalgo County	7.906	-6.73 pts
32	Union County	6.034	-4.08 pts
33	Mora County	5.921	-4.08 pts

Other periods

About this ranking

Jobs added at opening and expanding establishments during the year, as a percentage of average employment in the two years. United States: Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics.

A gross flow: jobs lost elsewhere are not subtracted, so the net change is this rate minus job_destruction_rate. Not the same as payroll job growth from the monthly employment surveys. The year is the twelve months to March: 2023 compares March 2022 with March 2023.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the counties are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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U.S. Census Bureau. (2025). Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010 (Counties in New Mexico by job creation rate, 2017) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv

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Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010, Counties in New Mexico by job creation rate, 2017. U.S. Census Bureau, 25 Sept. 2025, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/job-creation-rate/new-mexico-counties?period=2017. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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U.S. Census Bureau. 2025. Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. Counties in New Mexico by job creation rate, 2017. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/job-creation-rate/new-mexico-counties?period=2017.

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U.S. Census Bureau (2025) Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010, Counties in New Mexico by job creation rate, 2017 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/job-creation-rate/new-mexico-counties?period=2017 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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Which county has the highest job creation rate?

Torrance County, with 22.044% in 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which county has the lowest job creation rate?

Mora County, with 5.921% in 2017.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. Retrieved 2026-10-12.