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Houston, TX vs Richland, WA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Richland has been positive.
- Richland has 2.7% more unemployment than Houston.
- Richland job growth has increased by 14.1% in the past 10 years.

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 Houston, TXRichland, WAUnited States
 Current Unemployment8.0%5.3%6.0%
 Future Job Growth30.9%39.6%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-5.6%-2.9%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-3.8%3.7%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-4.6%10.3%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth6.1%14.1%6.3%

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Reviews for Houston    371 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

I moved to Houston from the San Francisco Bay area in 1991 after college but I have always had family here. Houston is not what you think of when you think of Texas  More

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Over 2 years ago

There's definitely lots of jobs/economic opportunity. It's quite racially diverse if that's your thing. Houston has awful urban sprawl. Expect awful traffic. Hot as hell  More

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Over 2 years ago

There's definitely lots of jobs/economic opportunity. It's quite racially diverse if that's your thing. Houston has awful urban sprawl. Expect awful traffic. Hot as hell  More

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Reviews for Richland    14 Reviews

After spending almost 18 years of my life here arriving at age 36 with 2 children and leaving at 53 Richland is a horrible place to live. The medical care as a whole is  More

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Richland has grown a lot and is getting lots of retirees, it has great weather, great food not all chain restaurants, but has them also. the people are friendly, lots  More

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I have lived here a few years and it’s the worst place I’ve ever been. The “ nice weather” people refer to is 100 degree hot can’t even stand outside at 9am without  More

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ZIPS IN HOUSTON, TEXAS
77449, 77084, 77429, 77379, 77036, 77433, 77095, 77072, 77077, 77088, 100 total
ZIPS IN RICHLAND, WASHINGTON
99352 99354

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