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Unemployment Rate in New Mexico, by County

Unemployment Rate for every county in New Mexico, ranked. The highest is Harding County at 15.3% and the lowest is Los Alamos County at 0.6%.

New Mexico: 6.0% · United States: 5.2% · median county in New Mexico: 5.4%

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#County Unemployment Rate
1Harding County15.3%
2Cibola County10.5%
3McKinley County9.0%
4Torrance County9.0%
5Otero County8.6%
6De Baca County8.4%
7Grant County8.4%
8Curry County8.2%
9Taos County7.6%
10Quay County7.4%
11San Juan County7.3%
12Valencia County7.0%
13Lea County6.9%
14Doña Ana County6.8%
15Union County6.2%
16Eddy County5.5%
17Luna County5.4%
18Roosevelt County5.4%
19Bernalillo County5.3%
20Santa Fe County5.3%
21Sandoval County5.2%
22Lincoln County5.1%
23Chaves County5.0%
24Rio Arriba County4.9%
25San Miguel County4.8%
26Catron County4.2%
27Sierra County4.2%
28Colfax County3.8%
29Mora County3.8%
30Hidalgo County3.5%
31Guadalupe County2.6%
32Socorro County1.3%
33Los Alamos County0.6%

Small populations produce wide margins: Harding County is 15.3% with a margin of error of ±12.6%; Los Alamos County is 0.6% with a margin of error of ±0.4%. An estimate with a margin that wide should be read as a range rather than a rank.

Share of the civilian labour force who are out of work and looking. People not looking for work are excluded from the denominator.

Source: ACS 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates, 2024.

New Mexico ranks 8th of 52 states for unemployment rate.

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