2025 Compare Cities Job Market:
Goleta, CA vs Pacific Grove, CA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Pacific Grove has been positive.
- Pacific Grove has 6.5% less unemployment than Goleta.
- Pacific Grove job growth has increased by 1.4% in the past 10 years.
 Goleta, CAPacific Grove, CAUnited States
 Current Unemployment  Unlock10.4%6.0%
 Future Job Growth27.7%  Unlock33.5%
 Recent Job Growth  Unlock-8.1%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-2.8%  Unlock-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth  Unlock-5.0%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth2.7%  Unlock6.3%
Reviews for Goleta    2 Reviews

Lived in this area 2014-now (2022), Goleta for 4 years of that. Pros: *The climate is unbeatable, unless you enjoy being overly hot or cold, or snow sports which  More

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I live in Goleta and work part-time in Santa Barbara. I am semi-retired and have a decent income. Making wise choices of where to spend my income has always been  More

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Reviews for Pacific Grove    3 Reviews

We had vacationed in the Monterey Bay Area for 40 years and really liked it, so we leased an apartment in Pacific Grove for a year to see if we would like to purchase  More

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Over 19 years ago

PG is a wonderful town, although with a four-year old child, the town feels old. It is prohibitively expensive to live in PG with the Average home close to a million  More

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We were welcomed to the community and had great  More

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