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Austin, TX vs Carlsbad, NM

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Carlsbad has been positive.
- Carlsbad has 3.3% less unemployment than Austin.
- Carlsbad job growth has increased by 37.8% in the past 10 years.

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 Austin, TXCarlsbad, NMUnited States
 Current Unemployment5.1%8.4%6.0%
 Future Job Growth47.0%34.6%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-3.3%-6.6%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth1.7%13.7%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth6.1%11.6%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth25.5%37.8%6.3%

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Reviews for Austin    449 Reviews

This Year

Good place to visit.  More

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Austin is too expensive. Let's get that out of the way. Other than that it is a fun city. Ladybird Lake makes the city, imo. The ability to stand up paddle, kayak, walk  More

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The city continues to grow quickly, which a lot of people don't like. I get it, you fall in love with a city, and it's growing so fast that you don't recognize the same  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 AUSTIN, TEXAS
78745, 78753, 78741, 78748, 78744, 78704, 78758, 78759, 78749, 78723, 40 total
ZIPS IN CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO
88220

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