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Federal Heights, CO vs Thornton, CO

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Thornton has been positive.
- Thornton has 0.5% more unemployment than Federal Heights.
- Thornton job growth has increased by 22.7% in the past 10 years.
 Federal Heights, COThornton, COUnited States
 Current Unemployment  Unlock6.9%6.0%
 Future Job Growth44.9%  Unlock33.5%
 Recent Job Growth  Unlock-5.0%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-0.1%  Unlock-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth  Unlock7.1%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth20.8%  Unlock6.3%
Reviews for Federal Heights    1 Reviews

I am actually just trying to get new housing, rental updates in the mail or  More

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Reviews for Thornton    5 Reviews

Good place. Very suburbany (similar to the Springs). The houses are very small and old and yet still very expensive (albeit cheaper than southern Denver). Actually lots  More

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Over 5 years ago

I like Denver metro, but some cities aren’t too great. Thornton being one of them. Moved here because of highway access, and convenience to DIA for business travel. Am  More

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Over 10 years ago

The quality of life here in not good. The traffic is bad all the time. To try to get to the mountains takes forever! Also most lakes along the front range you can't even  More

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