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Jamestown, NY vs Anchorage, AK

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Anchorage has been positive.
- Anchorage has 1.5% more unemployment than Jamestown.
- Anchorage job growth has increased by 6.5% in the past 10 years.

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 Jamestown, NYAnchorage, AKUnited States
 Current Unemployment8.1%6.6%6.0%
 Future Job Growth11.8%16.1%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-6.9%-3.6%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-7.9%-5.7%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-11.5%-7.7%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth-18.1%-6.5%6.3%

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Reviews for Jamestown    2 Reviews

Over 16 years ago

I have lived all over this country and can say that Jamestown is a lovely old city. It has some problems common to small, rural cities in the northeast - lack of job  More

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Over 17 years ago

We have been out West several times and find that we like the wide open spaces. Here in New York the foothills are to close and not enough open  More

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Reviews for Anchorage    83 Reviews

Anchorage had potential but with the massive amount of homeless the petty crime is on the rise. I chose to live in a town outside of Anchorage rather than the city for  More

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I lived in Anchorage for the better part of the 2010's. Pros: o Beautiful, mountain and ocean views; close to many hiking trails, campsites, fishing grounds,  More

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it's nice, i liked it when i grew up there. kinda wish i could move back, but i didn't really like being isolated from all the things like nordstrom, trader joe's,  More

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ZIPS IN JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK
14701
ZIPS IN ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
99504, 99507, 99508, 99577, 99502, 99515, 99516, 99501, 99517, 99503, 17 total

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