2025 Compare Cities Job Market:
Merrillville, IN vs Homewood, IL

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Homewood has been positive.
- Homewood has 0.4% more unemployment than Merrillville.
- Homewood job growth has increased by 3.9% in the past 10 years.
 Merrillville, INHomewood, ILUnited States
 Current Unemployment  Unlock8.4%6.0%
 Future Job Growth27.3%  Unlock33.5%
 Recent Job Growth  Unlock-9.4%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-7.6%  Unlock-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth  Unlock-9.0%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth-0.7%  Unlock6.3%
Reviews for Merrillville    3 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

too close to Gary with that  More

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Just thirty minuits from Chicago . Good schools. Low cost of  More

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Reasonable cost of living and fairly safe. Also close to Chitown so the cultural stuff is there. Shopping is run of the mill brand name franchises, nothing too  More

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Reviews for Homewood    2 Reviews

Over 12 years ago

Homewood used to be a nice place to live but now there are alot of burglaries and the police isn't doing much about  More

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Even though I've left the Chicago area to move out west, I won't forget about where I was born & raised - Home Sweet Homewood! As part of the oft-overlooked Southern  More

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