# Counties in New Mexico by job destruction rate, 2023

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

- Indicator id: `job_destruction_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Jobs lost at closing and shrinking establishments during the year, as a percentage of average employment in the two years. United States: Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: job destruction 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)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics: job destruction 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/job-destruction-rate/new-mexico-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
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| 1 | Luna County | 24.462 |
| 2 | De Baca County | 18.711 |
| 3 | Quay County | 16.02 |
| 4 | Eddy County | 14.988 |
| 5 | Sierra County | 13.567 |
| 6 | Lincoln County | 13.346 |
| 7 | Mora County | 13.163 |
| 8 | Hidalgo County | 13.161 |
| 9 | Harding County | 12.821 |
| 10 | Rio Arriba County | 12.578 |
| 11 | Torrance County | 12.544 |
| 12 | Taos County | 12.006 |
| 13 | Catron County | 11.823 |
| 14 | Guadalupe County | 11.585 |
| 15 | Otero County | 11.401 |
| 16 | Curry County | 11.334 |
| 17 | Chaves County | 11.228 |
| 18 | Bernalillo County | 11.055 |
| 19 | Santa Fe County | 11.037 |
| 20 | Roosevelt County | 10.852 |
| 21 | Doña Ana County | 10.579 |
| 22 | Lea County | 10.146 |
| 23 | Sandoval County | 10.102 |
| 24 | San Juan County | 9.911 |
| 25 | Cibola County | 9.433 |
| 26 | Colfax County | 9.373 |
| 27 | Union County | 9.343 |
| 28 | McKinley County | 9.136 |
| 29 | Socorro County | 8.857 |
| 30 | Grant County | 8.57 |
| 31 | Valencia County | 8.159 |
| 32 | San Miguel County | 7.01 |
| 33 | Los Alamos County | 2.619 |