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East Lansing, MI vs West Lafayette, IN

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Highlights
- Job Growth in West Lafayette has been positive.
- West Lafayette has 0.8% more unemployment than East Lansing.
- West Lafayette job growth has decreased by 69.5% in the past 10 years.

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 East Lansing, MIWest Lafayette, INUnited States
 Current Unemployment3.7%2.9%6.0%
 Future Job Growth36.3%36.5%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-6.9%-7.2%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-8.1%2.5%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-5.3%5.1%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth-2.2%69.5%6.3%

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Reviews for East Lansing    4 Reviews

East Lansing is a wonderful, lively, youthful college town that has gotten better over time. You feel the strong Spartan Spirit everywhere as students, alumni and locals  More

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East Lansing is noted for being the home of one of the first Land Grant colleges -- Michigan State University. MSU has an large campus with an enormous area of land  More

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Over 16 years ago

East Lansing is a very pretty town. The town has had frequent problems with student rioters. Overall 60% of the town is composed of students. I would recommend East  More

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Reviews for West Lafayette    11 Reviews

I am originally from Greencastle, Indiana, a nice friendly rural town and home to DePauw University. Presently, I live in West Lafayette, Indiana, due to my having been  More

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Over 10 years ago

It's a nice small town. It's too bad it's not closer to Indy. I think I would like it here  More

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Over 13 years ago

They have good schools, parks and always have events to  More

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ZIPS IN EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN
48823 48825
ZIPS IN WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
47906 47907

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