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Thornton, CO vs Puget Island, WA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Puget Island has been positive.
- Puget Island has 0.5% more unemployment than Thornton.
- Puget Island job growth has increased by 4.1% in the past 10 years.
 Thornton, COPuget Island, WAUnited States
 Current Unemployment  Unlock7.4%6.0%
 Future Job Growth47.4%  Unlock33.5%
 Recent Job Growth  Unlock0.3%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth0.3%  Unlock-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth  Unlock9.0%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth22.7%  Unlock6.3%
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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