Best cities for sports in New Mexico

BookrGo Best Sport Cities ranking: we rank the cities of New Mexico by their 0-10 sports score, which combines density of centers per resident, variety of sports, listing quality and real activity. To keep the comparison fair, we measure every city's offering with the same sources of national coverage. An honest way to see where it's easiest (and hardest) to find somewhere to play.

69 scorable cities in New Mexico.

#	City	Score /10	Centers
1	Alamogordo	7.5	49
2	Ruidoso	7.5	38
3	Hobbs	7.4	78
4	Los Alamos	7.4	57
5	Santa Fe	7.3	285
6	Farmington	7.3	85
7	Truth or Consequences	7.3	21
8	Angel Fire	7.3	8
9	Taos	7.2	35
10	Albuquerque	7.0	1023
11	Roswell	7.0	94
12	Tucumcari	7.0	12
13	Aztec	6.9	19
14	Las Cruces	6.8	199
15	Carlsbad	6.8	56
16	Clovis	6.6	71
17	Rio Rancho	6.5	140
18	Socorro	6.4	24
19	Belen	6.3	26
20	Gallup	6.2	49
21	Raton	6.1	12
22	White Sands	6.1	10
23	Bernalillo	6.0	16
24	Deming	5.9	20
25	Cedar Crest	5.9	7
26	Las Vegas	5.8	27
27	Los Lunas	5.7	30
28	Grants	5.7	18
29	North Valley	5.6	12
30	Holloman AFB	5.6	6
31	Artesia	5.5	24
32	Corrales	5.5	23
33	Portales	5.4	22
34	Cloudcroft	5.4	9
35	Española	5.3	28
36	Edgewood	5.3	11
37	Kirtland	5.3	6
38	Silver City	5.1	34
39	Bloomfield	5.1	11
40	Moriarty	5.1	8
41	Sunland Park	5.0	15
42	Lovington	5.0	11
43	Santa Rosa	5.0	6
44	South Valley	4.9	10
45	Kirtland AFB	4.9	8
46	Bosque Farms	4.8	9
47	Logan	4.8	6
48	Clayton	4.7	8
49	Paradise Hills	4.7	7
50	Ruidoso Downs	4.5	8
51	Cimarron	4.5	5
52	Los Ranchos de Albuquerque	4.2	9
53	Eldorado at Santa Fe	4.2	5
54	Eunice	3.8	7
55	White Rock	3.7	8
56	University Park	3.6	8
57	Jal	3.5	5
58	Magdalena	3.4	3
59	Questa	3.4	2
60	Jemez Pueblo	3.3	2
61	Cannon AFB	3.1	4
62	Capitan	3.0	3
63	Dexter	2.9	4
64	Ranchos de Taos	2.2	3
65	Shiprock	2.1	5
66	Paraje	2.1	3
67	Chaparral	1.9	3
68	Dulce	1.6	3
69	San Felipe Pueblo	1.4	2

How do we calculate the score?

Variety (25%) — how many different sports the city covers.
Quality (20%) — richness of each center's information.
Activity (20%) — real user interest over the last 30 days.
Scale (15%) — number of centers in the city.
Density (10%) — centers per resident (dampened).
Courts (10%) — total capacity: number of courts.

Each section is measured as a percentile against the other cities in the United States and combined into the final score, on a 0-10 scale. Variety and density are measured with a uniform instrument (only sources with homogeneous national coverage) so that no city is favored by having a more complete open catalog. We only score cities with population data and a presence in those sources.