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Parkersburg, WV vs Waterville, ME

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Waterville has been positive.
- Waterville has 2.3% more unemployment than Parkersburg.
- Waterville job growth has increased by 7.3% in the past 10 years.

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 Parkersburg, WVWaterville, MEUnited States
 Current Unemployment7.5%5.2%6.0%
 Future Job Growth17.9%33.7%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-5.1%-4.1%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-3.9%-3.9%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-7.6%-0.7%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth-9.7%7.3%6.3%

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Reviews for Parkersburg    10 Reviews

Over 6 years ago

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Over 14 years ago

Just like most places, Parkersburg definitely has it's pros and cons. The pros: pretty low crime rate (although it's growing more and more every year), typically no  More

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Have worked at St Josephs for the past 11 weeks as a travel RN in the CVICU. A very friendly hospital, great hospitalist and physician availability with CV surgeons of  More

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Reviews for Waterville    8 Reviews

just spend 15 years living in LA and loving it, but now I'm retired and I am priced out. staying in Maine with family. do I move to Central Maine with its myriad  More

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Over 10 years ago

I have lived here for a decade but only started looking for office space in the last few months. There are lots of affordable places  More

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Over 10 years ago

Maine in general, and Waterville in particular, have been a wonderful place to homeschool our three children. We are able to work with as much or as little interaction  More

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ZIPS IN PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA
26101 26104
ZIPS IN WATERVILLE, MAINE
04901

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