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Ottawa, IL vs Portales, NM

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Portales has been positive.
- Portales has 1.2% more unemployment than Ottawa.
- Portales job growth has increased by 5.2% in the past 10 years.

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 Ottawa, ILPortales, NMUnited States
 Current Unemployment7.3%6.1%6.0%
 Future Job Growth20.0%23.6%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-8.3%-1.3%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-10.1%-2.7%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-10.8%-2.7%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth-12.1%-5.2%6.3%

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Reviews for Ottawa    6 Reviews

Over 7 years ago

Have all of the radiation sites been cleaned up? If not, did the tornado stir up and blast some radiation from these sites to other  More

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Over 10 years ago

Good location with low cost of living and close enough to Chicago and suburbs to take advantage of their  More

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Over 14 years ago

Although Ottawa is a very nice place to live, living here is becoming rediculous...as taxes go. I bought a house less then four years ago and my taxed went from  More

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Reviews for Portales    10 Reviews

In a single sentence, this is a town that is slowly dying in the desert- and nobody here cares. Why- because the people who run this town were born in the 1940's or  More

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Over 5 years ago

I love portales new.Mexico they have nice people I like boys cute boys that the high school  More

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If you like boring, low wages, and high unemployment for mediocre jobs, and ultra-conservatism then this is the place for you.  More

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ZIPS IN OTTAWA, ILLINOIS
61350
ZIPS IN PORTALES, NEW MEXICO
88130

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