New Mexico's economy, county by county
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 → diagnose → 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 →