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Longmont, CO vs Thornton, CO

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Thornton has been positive.
- Thornton has 0.6% less unemployment than Longmont.
- Thornton job growth has increased by 22.7% in the past 10 years.
 Longmont, COThornton, COUnited States
 Current Unemployment  Unlock6.9%6.0%
 Future Job Growth44.0%  Unlock33.5%
 Recent Job Growth  Unlock-5.0%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth1.6%  Unlock-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth  Unlock7.1%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth18.2%  Unlock6.3%
Reviews for Longmont    19 Reviews

I lived here for 4 years and it's pretty nice. It gets cold and stays cold for a good 8 months, but other than that I loved it. There are a lot of amenities. It is  More

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Over 6 years ago

I just move from other state to Longmont. In my opinion Longmont is one of the safest city in US which is have a low crime, its great city to raised family .Has a great  More

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Fantastic place to live. Four golf courses, many parks, 10 minutes to the foothills and 40 minutes from the Rockies, the location is hard to beat if you want to be 45  More

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Reviews for Thornton    5 Reviews

Good place. Very suburbany (similar to the Springs). The houses are very small and old and yet still very expensive (albeit cheaper than southern Denver). Actually lots  More

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Over 5 years ago

I like Denver metro, but some cities aren’t too great. Thornton being one of them. Moved here because of highway access, and convenience to DIA for business travel. Am  More

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Over 10 years ago

The quality of life here in not good. The traffic is bad all the time. To try to get to the mountains takes forever! Also most lakes along the front range you can't even  More

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