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West Covina, CA vs Santa Barbara, CA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Santa Barbara has been positive.
- Santa Barbara has 7.2% more unemployment than West Covina.
- Santa Barbara job growth has increased by 2.7% in the past 10 years.

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 West Covina, CASanta Barbara, CAUnited States
 Current Unemployment11.3%4.1%6.0%
 Future Job Growth33.3%28.2%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-12.2%-6.5%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-12.4%-2.9%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-9.2%-3.5%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth-3.7%2.7%6.3%

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Reviews for West Covina    3 Reviews

Great city with a strong local government including local police and fire departments. A couple of shopping malls, which are constantly under improvement to bring in  More

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West Covina is in a great location, it is not too far from the beach, mountains, Disneyland, and much more! The weather is constantly beautiful! Warm, breezy days in  More

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Over 17 years ago

i live in south hills.. it is a very nice community.. however i am not a fan of southern california at  More

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Reviews for Santa Barbara    51 Reviews

I moved to Santa Barbara around 23 years ago to study at Brooks, which like most of the Santa Barbara that I knew—has been destroyed. Homelessness, drugs, gangs, high  More

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Over 3 years ago

I fell in love with Santa Barbara about thirty years ago and finally moved here a few years ago. Because of the price of homes, it is an expensive place to live. The  More

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If you like high crime, paying a $4,500 a month mortgage and crazy high taxes, this is the place for you. It’s too bad because it wasn’t always like this. When I moved  More

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ZIPS IN WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA
91790 91791 91792
ZIPS IN SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA
93101 93105 93103 93110 93109

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