The Querétaro Metropolitan Area was ranked as having the highest Urban Competitiveness Index in Mexico by the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO), marking the first time in its history that it has achieved this ranking.
During the presentation of the report at the Club de Industriales, the mayor of Querétaro, Felipe Fernando Macías, highlighted that the Querétaro metropolitan area climbed five positions in the index in two years, which he attributed to the strengthened coordination among the municipalities of Corregidora, El Marqués, and Huimilpan for the implementation of public policies.
“There are municipal governments—Chepe’s, Rodrigo’s, Jairo’s, and mine—there’s a governor, there’s a team working very hard, making it very clear that the great future of progress we hope for isn’t improvised; it’s built every day, as we are doing today, to take Querétaro to the best moment in its history,” he said.
Macías Olvera highlighted that the Querétaro Metropolitan Area ranked first in several of IMCO’s main sub-indices, including Innovation and Economy, Capacity to Generate Investment, Innovation and Technological Development, and Political System and Government.
He also noted that it achieved first place nationally in Education Level, second place in Digital Connectivity and Municipal Own-Source Revenue, third place in Perception of Low State Corruption in Urban Areas, and fifth place in Patent Generation.
Furthermore, regarding the city of Querétaro specifically, he emphasized that its most positive indicators included Society and Environment, and Labor Market and Infrastructure.
According to the report, the capital city ranked second nationally in households with computers and internet access, seventh in companies with more than 50 employees, and eighth in lower levels of informal employment, with an average monthly salary of 13,937 pesos.
Source: publimetro
