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Jamestown, NY vs Oil City, PA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Oil City has been positive.
- Oil City has 0.0% more unemployment than Jamestown.
- Oil City job growth has increased by 16.9% in the past 10 years.
 Jamestown, NYOil City, PAUnited States
 Current Unemployment  Unlock8.1%6.0%
 Future Job Growth11.8%  Unlock33.5%
 Recent Job Growth  Unlock-5.8%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-7.9%  Unlock-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth  Unlock-12.7%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth-18.1%  Unlock6.3%
Reviews for Jamestown    2 Reviews

Over 17 years ago

I have lived all over this country and can say that Jamestown is a lovely old city. It has some problems common to small, rural cities in the northeast - lack of job  More

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Over 18 years ago

We have been out West several times and find that we like the wide open spaces. Here in New York the foothills are to close and not enough open  More

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Reviews for Oil City    6 Reviews

This city is disgusting Watch Netflix cold case files- first episode first season. An 11 year old girl raped by 3 town residents who everyone knew - two brothers went  More

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There are no jobs here, the school system is terrible, the town is only getting deader, and even if you came to retire, the winters are long and harsh, the hospitals are  More

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Over 9 years ago

Oil City is full of wonderful history. Unfortunately that hay day is long gone. Still, it is a nice little town. Like anyplace where people live you have some crime but  More

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