New Mexico's Economy
Not another dashboard. Three signals: Strength (where the economy stands), Momentum (which way it's moving), and Opportunity (the size of the gap plus the assets to close it), built from jobs, wages, business formation, and household prosperity. Each county is scored against genuine peers, so a rural county isn't measured against Albuquerque. Open a county to see the constraint most likely holding growth back and what tends to loosen it. Benchmark, then diagnose, then prioritize.
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Click a county for its three signals, its economic classification, the constraint most likely holding it back, and how it compares to its peers.
Jobs, establishments, wages, average pay, and over-the-year growth: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics QCEW, 2024 (annual). Unemployment: BLS LAUS (current). Median family income, poverty, and population: ACS (via the studio's shared tract data). Every KPI is a percentile among peer counties (grouped by population scale), standardized so higher always means better; negatives like poverty and unemployment are inverted. Scores blend the current level with recent trajectory. Coming next: Turquoise Book indicators, educational-attainment (Talent Alignment) and broadband/water (Development Readiness) KPIs, and finer geographies. Describes the economy to inform action; it never ranks whose community matters more. How this data may & may not be used →