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Lancaster, CA vs Long Beach, CA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Long Beach has been positive.
- Long Beach has 4.1% more unemployment than Lancaster.
- Long Beach job growth has increased by 2.8% in the past 10 years.
 Lancaster, CALong Beach, CAUnited States
 Current Unemployment15.6%11.5%6.0%
 Future Job Growth30.3%32.5%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-12.2%-12.2%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-11.8%-11.6%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-8.4%-8.6%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth-2.3%-2.8%6.3%
Reviews for Lancaster    48 Reviews

Worse than even Compton in some ways... worse than hell overall. This place is so bad you will want to off yourself every day just by being here, but probably not too  More

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Over 4 years ago

I was born here, then grew up here for 17 years and joined the Army as a teen, but constantly went back to visit my parents and friends. I lived there again for 4 years  More

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Over 6 years ago

Moved to the Eastside of Lancaster. I have target, lowes, the whole wheatery, homedepot, bank of America, wells Fargo, Walmart, traders Joe's, Carl's jr, burger king,  More

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Reviews for Long Beach    45 Reviews

Local born and bred. This place is going down the drain. Crime is up, housing is up, yuppies finding nothing wrong with it since they want to validate spending 3k on a 2  More

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Angelique · 
Over 4 years ago

I love Long Beach. I especially shoreline village and the aquarium of the pacific. The only big problem here (for me) is crime. Otherwise, nice  More

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Over 6 years ago

The cost of living is extremely high and there are way too many apartments or multi unit homes which have no parking. But with everyone living on top of each other it  More

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