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Poughkeepsie, NY vs Garfield, NJ

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Garfield has been positive.
- Garfield has 4.0% less unemployment than Poughkeepsie.
- Garfield job growth has increased by 0.7% in the past 10 years.

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 Poughkeepsie, NYGarfield, NJUnited States
 Current Unemployment8.5%12.5%6.0%
 Future Job Growth26.6%22.4%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-5.9%-8.2%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-4.2%-6.1%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-3.0%-5.0%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth-5.0%-0.7%6.3%

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Reviews for Poughkeepsie    10 Reviews

Over 6 years ago

I have mixed feelings about Poughkeepsie because there are equally as many things I love about that town as there are things I hate about it so I'm just going to write a  More

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Over 11 years ago

Prices are high here. housing is easily 25-30percent of our monthly  More

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Over 12 years ago

It'd be great if jobs were available. This city is OK but COL is so much higher in NY than where I was raised in South Maybe I should head  More

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Reviews for Garfield    1 Reviews

Over 17 years ago

Garfield used to be a really great town to live in. It's been at a constant rate of decline for the past 20 years. It seems it keeps getting worse and worse every year.  More

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ZIPS IN POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK
12601
ZIPS IN GARFIELD, NEW JERSEY
07026

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