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Columbia, MO vs Yelm, WA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Yelm has been positive.
- Yelm has 2.9% less unemployment than Columbia.
- Yelm job growth has increased by 15.7% in the past 10 years.
 Columbia, MOYelm, WAUnited States
 Current Unemployment  Unlock5.9%6.0%
 Future Job Growth26.8%  Unlock33.5%
 Recent Job Growth  Unlock-2.3%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-2.6%  Unlock-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth  Unlock11.7%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth9.1%  Unlock6.3%
Reviews for Columbia    41 Reviews

If you are an active person and love to be outdoors and go to college sporting events, Columbia is a great place to live! I run and bike and go to Mizzou events a lot. I  More

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Over 4 years ago

I've live in CoMo for 20 yrs. NOT sure about this state of the art water park??!! There are great parks but nothing else for families. NO zoo, museum, and definitely no  More

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I lived there for a year and hated every minute. Columbia reminded me of the San Francisco of the Midwest. It is overrun with homeless people. Law enforcement is  More

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Reviews for Yelm    2 Reviews

Over 16 years ago

Yelm is a very nice city to live in. Small enough to have that small town flavor but big enough not to be cramped. Has access to pretty much everywhere you want to go.  More

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I've lived in Yelm 2 years now and LOVE IT! We moved here to get away of the crazyness and extreamly crampedness of the "suburbia"of Puyallup which is just outside of  More

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