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Rio Rancho, NM vs Carlsbad, NM

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Carlsbad has been positive.
- Carlsbad has 0.8% more unemployment than Rio Rancho.
- Carlsbad job growth has increased by 37.8% in the past 10 years.

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 Rio Rancho, NMCarlsbad, NMUnited States
 Current Unemployment7.6%8.4%6.0%
 Future Job Growth37.9%34.6%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-5.5%-6.6%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-0.7%13.7%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth4.1%11.6%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth10.9%37.8%6.3%

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Reviews for Rio Rancho    21 Reviews

I have lived in the area for the past three years with my husband. Although vastly better than Albuquerque, this is not a safe area. We have had overt and petty crime on  More

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The pros: -Fairly good year-round weather. Sunny days outnumber cloudy days, there are days when the temps fall below freezing and the sun will still be shining. It's  More

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Over 4 years ago

Affordable housing, low crime (compared to Albuquerque), awesome weather with all 4 seasons, beautiful environment and some pretty awesome people. I love Rio Rancho,  More

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Reviews for Carlsbad    15 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

We used to visit here every few years from Michigan just to see the Living Desert State Park. A very long way to drive to spend a a couple of days in this hauntingly  More

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Been here 9 years. Very difficult place. Price gouging, extremely expensive to live here. Crazy amounts of crime, cops do nothing. Very crowded, bad traffic and crazy  More

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I've lived here ten years and hate it. It's an oilfield town and they take advantage of that by doing a lot of price gouging... it's very difficult to find reasonably  More

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ZIPS IN RIO RANCHO, NEW MEXICO
87124 87144
ZIPS IN CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO
88220

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