Texas Booms, New Mexico … Doesn’t
For the first time, “two of the five largest cities in the nation are in Texas.”
Meanwhile, the “recent trend of New Mexico losing population continued between 2013 and 2014.”
According to the Pew Research Center, migration from the Land of Enchantment is widespread. Just 24.2 percent of New Mexico’s 33 counties grew between 2013 and 2014. Only Illinois and Connecticut fared worse.