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New Mexico / Los Alamos County

How's Los Alamos County?

One question about Los Alamos County, New Mexico, each answered from public data, with the method and the raw numbers one click away. More topics for this place are on the way.

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Los Alamos County year by year

Yearly figures for every US county, latest complete year 1994 to 2025:wages and jobs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; air quality from the EPA, where a monitor reads it.

Jobs and pay

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation$2,270+3.6%+24.7%+51.8%Highest quartile17 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 1 of 33 in New Mexico
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives22.5K jobs−0.8%+28.9%+46.8%2nd quartile861 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 8 of 33 in New Mexico

Air quality

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Days with good air1994 · AQI 50 or below, counties with a monitor reading at least 180 days78.0% of days−4.9 pts––2nd quartile286 of 648 counties in 1994 · 6 of 9 in New Mexico
Median daily AQI1994 · the middle day of the year; 0–50 is good, 51–100 moderate44 AQI0.0 AQI––Highest quartile154 of 648 counties in 1994 · 4 of 9 in New Mexico

4 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among counties" ranks Los Alamos County against every US county with a figure for the same year (1 is the highest value, which is not always the best). In the strip each tick is one of them, the dot is Los Alamos County and the taller gray tick is the United States as a whole, where there is a national figure. A year is shown only once it is complete. Each indicator's page ranks every state.