Alaska vs New Mexico
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 7 of them and New Mexico on 7, 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 Mexico
Home price$400,659$321,186
Rent paid$1,397$1,073
Cost of living124.993.7
Income$95,665$67,816
Property tax0.94%0.63%
Income tax0.00%5.90%
Sales tax1.82%7.68%
Electric bill$157$98
Temperature36.4°F56.8°F
Snowfall46.0 in8.9 in
Precipitation43.6 in11.3 in
Students per teacher19.213.8
Bachelor's or higher32.8%31.8%
Crime rate724717
Commute19.8 min24.0 min
Unemployment4.4%4.8%
Population change+0.5%+0.4%
Wildfire risk74.492.1
Flood risk18.888.2
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.