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Lancaster, PA vs Rochester, MN

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Rochester has been positive.
- Rochester has 6.8% more unemployment than Lancaster.
- Rochester job growth has increased by 14.4% in the past 10 years.

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 Lancaster, PARochester, MNUnited States
 Current Unemployment10.4%3.6%6.0%
 Future Job Growth26.3%34.7%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-5.4%-0.9%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-3.9%2.8%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-3.2%7.0%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth0.2%14.4%6.3%

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Reviews for Lancaster    14 Reviews

Lancaster is really nice in some parts, but it seems like the further away you get from downtown the worse it gets. I grew up around Saint Joseph and manor and saw  More

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I was there last weekend and was extremely favorably impressed. The only hesitation, and question, I have about the place is the high crime rate. It is hard to tell from  More

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Over 10 years ago

Lancaster is the nation's oldest inland city located in central PA amid Amish farmlands. Walkable and soon to be bike friendly, it offers a variety of great restaurants  More

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Reviews for Rochester    31 Reviews

Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

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Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

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Over 4 years ago

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More

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ZIPS IN LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
17603 17602
ZIPS IN ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA
55901 55904 55902 55906 55905

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