Rank	County	Score	Property Tax	Cost of Living	Income & Jobs	Health	Disaster Risk
1	Harding County	79.3	91.6	88.7	10.3	70.7	99.6
2	Los Alamos County	78.5	86.2	59.6	76.8	90.7	96.4
3	Catron County	76.6	92.7	89.1	13.7	69.2	63.4
4	Guadalupe County	76.5	87.5	91.7	9.6	62.5	91.2
5	Hidalgo County	75.5	89.3	85.8	15.4	62.8	91.1
6	De Baca County	75.3	88.2	87.8	10	60.7	96
7	Mora County	74	87.2	86.1	16.1	68.3	61.2
8	Union County	73.9	86.2	87.2	13	59.5	87.9
9	Quay County	72.3	84.9	86.9	11.9	59.6	74.1
10	Colfax County	71.7	86.1	85.6	17.8	66.8	41.5
11	Torrance County	71.4	89.1	84.1	13.6	61.9	53.9
12	Sierra County	71.2	86.9	89	8.1	61.9	44.2
13	Grant County	71	89.3	86.4	13.4	66.2	25.9
14	San Miguel County	70.3	86.6	86.5	14.3	66	25.4
15	Taos County	70.3	93	78.4	21.8	67.8	25.7
16	Socorro County	70.1	86.7	89.6	14.4	56.5	38.5
17	Rio Arriba County	69.3	90.1	87.2	18.6	58.3	19.5
18	Lincoln County	68.9	87.1	81.8	17.1	66.9	20.5
19	Luna County	68.9	86.1	87.7	8.1	53.7	48.4
20	Cibola County	68.8	79.2	88.6	17.2	58.4	41.6
21	Curry County	68.3	86.7	77.1	20.1	64.2	38.2
22	Otero County	68.3	86.4	82.1	17.8	66.4	15.3
23	Roosevelt County	68	90	79.7	17.6	64.4	15.9
24	Eddy County	67.2	88.2	75.6	35.3	62.5	16.4
25	Valencia County	66.8	83.7	78.7	21.5	65.3	17.8
26	Chaves County	66.3	84.1	83.3	17.4	60.2	12.4
27	Lea County	66	89.1	77.4	28.3	57.8	14
28	Santa Fe County	66	88	66.3	32.1	72.2	14
29	Doña Ana County	65.3	83	79.3	19.7	64.6	3.9
30	Sandoval County	64.6	80.9	64.6	38.2	70.8	23
31	San Juan County	64	83.3	80.4	18	55.6	11.7
32	Bernalillo County	62.3	75.6	70.5	26.8	69	5.6
33	McKinley County	55.6	49.1	88.5	12.4	43.8	21.8

Data: U.S. Census Bureau ACS, FBI UCR, CDC, FEMA NRI, NCES, EPA SDWIS. Scores are 0-100 (higher is better). Rankings are based on available data dimensions and may change as new data sources are added. This information is for research purposes only and should not be the sole factor in relocation decisions.

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