Alaska vs New Jersey
Twenty measures that tend to decide a move, side by side. Every figure is the same one the map shows, from the same source.
Alaska comes out ahead on 9 of them and New Jersey on 5, but that tally is not a recommendation: it weighs a difference in class size the same as a difference in house price. Read the rows that matter to you.
MeasureAlaskaNew Jersey
Home price$400,659$584,681
Rent paid$1,397$1,719
Cost of living124.9115.1
Income$95,665$104,294
Property tax0.94%1.88%
Income tax0.00%10.75%
Sales tax1.82%6.60%
Electric bill$157$159
Temperature36.4°F54.1°F
Snowfall46.0 in17.4 in
Precipitation43.6 in38.7 in
Students per teacher19.211.8
Bachelor's or higher32.8%44.5%
Crime rate724218
Commute19.8 min31.9 min
Unemployment4.4%4.5%
Population change+0.5%+2.8%
Wildfire risk74.450.6
Flood risk18.895.7
Bold marks the better figure where a measure has a better direction. Weather, snowfall and rainfall are shown plain, because warmer is not better — it is a preference.