Data · Compare the states

The comparison table

Population, output, exports, jobs, wages, payroll tax, security and competitiveness for every state, sortable.

The 31 states and Mexico City, side by side

Sixteen measures a company weighs when choosing a state, each dated in its heading; sorted by IMCO's competitiveness rank, first column

State	Region	IMCO competitiveness rank, 2026lower is better	People, 2025	Share of national output, 2024	Exports per person, 2025, USDhigher is better	Formal private jobs per 1,000 people, Jul 2026higher is better	Informal work, % of the employed, Q2 2026lower is better	Average insured daily wage, pesos, Jul 2026	Payroll tax, 2026lower is better	Mexico Peace Index rank, 2026 (1 = most peaceful)lower is better	Homicides per 100,000 people, 2025lower is better	Factory pay per hour worked, pesos, 2025	Hours by road to the nearest commercial border crossing, 2026lower is better	Cargo theft cases per 100,000 people, Jan–Sep 2026lower is better	USA travel advisory level, May 2026 (1 to 4)lower is better	Engineering and ICT graduates per 100,000 people, 2025-26higher is better	Businesses hit by crime per 10,000, 2023lower is better
Mexico City	The Center	1	9.17 m	14.98%	411	401	45.3%	800	4%	19	9	166	12.6	0.2	2	308	3,126
Querétaro	The Bajío and Center-North	2	2.60 m	2.39%	6,946	277	39.2%	734	3%	16	7	174	11.3	0.0	2	299	3,462
Nuevo León	The Texas-Facing North	3	6.27 m	8.05%	9,350	315	34.8%	740	3%	21	12	167	2.7	0.8	2	201	2,812
Coahuila	The Texas-Facing North	4	3.40 m	3.69%	19,822	253	35.5%	680	3%	6	3	175	3.7	0.2	2	317	2,201
Baja California Sur	The Pacific Border	5	0.96 m	0.75%	469	236	39.6%	647	3%	25	23	no figure	18.0	0.2	2	82	2,791
Jalisco	The West	6	8.63 m	7.55%	6,107	238	46.5%	659	3%	15	16	149	12.5	0.8	3	121	2,595
Yucatán	The Peninsula	7	2.50 m	1.63%	1,024	172	59.1%	562	3.75%	1	2	96	24.4	0.0	1	138	1,889
Aguascalientes	The Bajío and Center-North	8	1.53 m	1.30%	8,657	236	42.5%	652	2.5%	12	10	165	9.8	0.1	2	210	3,638
Quintana Roo	The Peninsula	9	2.10 m	1.53%	13	246	45.0%	600	4%	27	28	no figure	25.6	0.2	2	73	3,330
San Luis Potosí	The Bajío and Center-North	10	2.88 m	2.32%	8,651	173	54.9%	687	3%	18	13	158	8.9	7.6	2	157	3,283
Tamaulipas	The Texas-Facing North	11	3.61 m	2.99%	10,191	187	44.4%	706	3%	10	8	156	4.5	0.1	4	243	1,756
Sonora	The Pacific Border	12	3.03 m	3.29%	9,433	211	43.9%	652	3%	23	54	159	3.7	0.1	3	173	3,728
Campeche	The Peninsula	13	0.97 m	1.55%	8,723	134	61.4%	712	3%	5	10	no figure	22.4	0.0	1	153	2,756
Nayarit	The West	14	1.29 m	0.68%	302	142	58.9%	539	3%	7	15	no figure	15.0	0.0	2	117	1,968
Chihuahua	The Texas-Facing North	15	3.89 m	3.83%	28,208	248	35.1%	699	4%	26	53	163	3.6	0.5	3	174	2,839
Guanajuato	The Bajío and Center-North	16	6.42 m	4.54%	5,185	175	54.8%	601	3%	30	51	138	11.1	0.2	3	173	3,128
Baja California	The Pacific Border	17	3.98 m	3.86%	14,195	273	36.2%	746	4.25%	28	55	188	0.2	0.4	3	185	3,017
Tlaxcala	The Center	18	1.42 m	0.60%	1,399	82	72.0%	565	3%	3	9	124	12.0	1.7	2	164	2,578
State of Mexico	The Center	19	17.56 m	9.11%	1,243	116	55.3%	609	3%	17	14	152	13.6	10.1	2	113	3,005
Colima	The West	20	0.76 m	0.64%	2,524	209	46.2%	605	3%	32	89	136	14.9	1.2	4	151	2,720
Hidalgo	The Center	21	3.24 m	1.75%	944	92	72.0%	571	3%	9	9	144	11.7	0.6	2	217	2,527
Durango	The Bajío and Center-North	22	1.93 m	1.35%	1,515	138	55.5%	552	3%	4	6	99	9.7	0.0	2	130	2,641
Sinaloa	The West	23	3.06 m	2.11%	1,088	183	49.0%	546	3%	31	57	122	11.9	0.1	4	151	2,505
Tabasco	The Gulf and the Isthmus	24	2.52 m	2.08%	2,525	81	66.2%	595	3%	24	36	169	17.5	1.8	2	164	2,990
Veracruz	The Gulf and the Isthmus	25	7.90 m	4.30%	874	98	69.1%	648	3.45%	14	10	181	12.3	0.8	2	157	1,939
Puebla	The Center	26	6.84 m	3.54%	2,504	97	70.3%	593	3%	13	15	182	12.5	12.9	2	170	3,327
Chiapas	The Deep South	27	5.84 m	1.59%	223	45	76.9%	580	3%	2	7	121	18.5	0.0	3	68	2,541
Zacatecas	The Bajío and Center-North	28	1.68 m	1.03%	2,929	113	61.2%	654	3.5%	11	16	159	8.3	0.4	4	159	2,912
Morelos	The Center	29	1.99 m	1.06%	1,753	108	67.2%	598	3%	29	58	198	13.8	1.2	3	165	2,259
Michoacán	The West	30	4.87 m	2.75%	1,362	100	71.3%	562	3%	20	31	106	13.0	6.7	4	76	2,761
Oaxaca	The Deep South	31	4.15 m	1.88%	322	58	80.1%	554	3%	8	18	no figure	15.9	1.4	2	66	1,810
Guerrero	The Deep South	32	3.40 m	1.29%	271	47	77.6%	556	3%	22	39	no figure	15.6	0.0	4	59	1,825

The table opens sorted by IMCO's competitiveness rank; click any heading to sort the 31 states and Mexico City by it, and again to reverse. In blue columns, deeper means better for a company, as each heading says; purple columns describe size or price and have no better or worse, so deeper only means more. 6 cells read “no figure” where our record of that source has no value for the state; they are absent, not estimated.

Source: IMCO, Índice de Competitividad Estatal 2026 (published 21 September 2026); INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal 2025 (people in private dwellings) (published 22 September 2026); INEGI, PIB por Entidad Federativa 2024, current prices; share our arithmetic over the national 33,506,847 million pesos (published 5 December 2025); INEGI, Exportaciones Trimestrales por Entidad Federativa, the four quarters of 2025 summed (our arithmetic), preliminary (published 31 March 2026); IMSS open data as processed by Lokus Data (private formal jobs and average daily contribution wage; the national wage of 673.9 pesos covers all IMSS-insured workers) (published July 2026); INEGI, ENOE second quarter 2026, bulletin 503/26 (published 25 August 2026); BHR, bulletin on state payroll-tax rates for 2026 (published January 2026); Institute for Economics and Peace, Mexico Peace Index 2026; USA Department of State travel advisory of 29 May 2026 (published 29 May 2026); INEGI, Defunciones por homicidio 2025, preliminary, Reporte de Resultados 28/26, by state of registration (published 3 August 2026); INEGI, Encuesta Mensual de la Industria Manufacturera (EMIM), state tables, 2025 (definitive; read 5 November 2026) (published 12 October 2026); Our routing on OpenStreetMap roads with OSRM, 5 November 2026; crossings from the USA Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Border Crossing Entry Data, October 2025 to September 2026 (published 5 November 2026); SESNSP, Incidencia delictiva del fuero común, state level, January to September 2026 (published 13 October 2026); ANUIES, Anuario Estadístico de Educación Superior, yearbook 2025-2026, graduates (egresados), read 5 November 2026; INEGI, ENVE 2024 (businesses victimized in 2023, per 10,000) (published 10 December 2024). People are those living in private dwellings. Exports per person, jobs per 1,000 people and cargo theft per 100,000 people are our arithmetic on the sources' own figures; hours to the border are our own routing, open-road car times with no border wait. The columns come from different dates, each in its heading.

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