Counties in New Mexico by job creation rate

Harding County had the highest job creation rate of 33 counties in 2019, at 22.727%. Mora County had the lowest, at 4.082%. The median was 10.885% and the figure for New Mexico was 11.617%. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest22.727Harding County

Lowest4.082Mora County

Median10.88533 counties

New Mexico11.617History

Map of counties, 2019

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%, 2019. 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, 2019

%. 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	2019 (%)	Change on 2018
1	Harding County	22.727	+1.95 pts
2	Los Alamos County	19.296	+6.55 pts
3	Eddy County	19.253	+1.18 pts
4	Lea County	16.137	-0.54 pts
5	Torrance County	14.959	+5.6 pts
6	Taos County	14.697	-0.96 pts
7	Lincoln County	14.519	+3.87 pts
8	Valencia County	13.016	-0.62 pts
9	Otero County	12.415	+3.36 pts
10	Rio Arriba County	11.97	+0.93 pts
11	Sandoval County	11.285	-0.25 pts
12	Quay County	11.123	+4.22 pts
13	De Baca County	11.064	+2.3 pts
14	Doña Ana County	10.999	-0.17 pts
15	McKinley County	10.976	+1.07 pts
16	Grant County	10.912	+5.02 pts
17	San Juan County	10.885	-1.19 pts
18	Catron County	10.865	+0.23 pts
19	Bernalillo County	10.753	-0.41 pts
20	Santa Fe County	10.607	-0.68 pts
21	Colfax County	10.374	+0.16 pts
22	Luna County	10.029	+1.01 pts
23	Chaves County	10.005	-2.25 pts
24	Hidalgo County	9.404	-3.47 pts
25	Curry County	8.946	-3.71 pts
26	Roosevelt County	8.764	+2.23 pts
27	Cibola County	7.644	+0.29 pts
28	Socorro County	6.907	-2.49 pts
29	Union County	6.86	-5.62 pts
30	Guadalupe County	6.526	-3.29 pts
31	Sierra County	6.43	-2.55 pts
32	San Miguel County	6.081	-0.45 pts
33	Mora County	4.082	-10.45 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, 2019) [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, 2019. 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=2019. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

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, 2019. 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=2019.

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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, 2019 [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=2019 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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Which county has the highest job creation rate?

Harding County, with 22.727% in 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which county has the lowest job creation rate?

Mora County, with 4.082% in 2019.

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.