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Originally Posted by TakeFive
Thanks for the effort to post all that.
This really shows the growth of the Mountain West and how in-migration has substantially benefited from the Bay Area and from California companies, both tech and non-tech, fleeing their repressive business environment.
I'm also going to assume that migration from the Rust Belt and the NE to the south and SW will continue.
Santa Fe is a cool place. But the fastest growing area is to the south along the border where trade happens. https://ustr.gov/map/state-benefits/nm
New Mexico also exports their agriculture products (like Chile peppers) and guessing many of the immigrants ignore the census. |
Wrong. The fastest growing area in the state is the Oil Patch in southeastern New Mexico, due to the oil boom. Hobbs, Clovis, Carlsbad, etc. Las Cruces isn't growing any faster than Albuquerque right now. Hobbs was the 14th-fastest growing micropolitan area between 2018 and 2019 with the tenth largest numerical gain. Sandoval County in metro Albuquerque is still the largest in terms of numerical growth of counties in the state and 5th in percentage. Bernalillo County was 3rd in numerical gain and 11th in percentage. Valencia County was 8th in numerical gain and 7th in percentage. Doña Ana County was 4th in numerical gain and 8th in percentage. That means that it is behind at least two metro Albuquerque counties in either numerical or percentage growth. Las Cruces and the border counties are not the fastest growing areas in the state.
Edit: as for your link, do you realize that New Mexico's largest manufacturing export category of computer and electronics products is almost entirely made up of products made at Intel in metro Albuquerque? There are various other manufacturers in Albuquerque that make up that category as well, but the majority of it is Intel. Very little of that happens outside of metro Albuquerque or northern New Mexico (Los Alamos and Santa Fe).