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A city where one employer posts at least half the openings is not ranked, so a single company cannot decide a city's score."],"builtAt":"2026-11-03T15:06:31.259Z","edition":"2026-11","measure":"pf_noexp","sources":["NextChapter job data: open professional roles on employer career sites, verified in the last week"],"baseline":{"label":"all cities in our data","valueLabel":"0.9%"},"keyFacts":["#1 Sparks, NV: 2.5%","#2 Reno, NV: 2.1%","#3 Fort Collins, CO: 2.0%","18 cities ranked in the Mountain West","Data as of November 2026"],"placeNoun":"cities","commentary":["The lead is wide: Sparks (2.5%) is well clear of Broomfield at #10 (0.7%).","Sparks reaches #1 on a sample of 120 openings, a smaller market than most of the top ten, so its rank can move more from month to month.","Denver is the largest market in the top ten, with 2,834 openings behind its figure.","Cities with fewer than 100 openings are not ranked, and small differences between neighbouring ranks are not meaningful."],"license":"Free to use and share with a link to https://launchyournextchapter.com/rankings/cities-with-the-most-no-experience-jobs-in-the-mountain-west"}