Alaska vs North Carolina
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 5 of them and North Carolina on 9, 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.
MeasureAlaskaNorth Carolina
Home price$400,659$340,430
Rent paid$1,397$1,215
Cost of living124.997.8
Income$95,665$73,958
Property tax0.94%0.66%
Income tax0.00%3.99%
Sales tax1.82%7.10%
Electric bill$157$151
Temperature36.4°F60.3°F
Snowfall46.0 in2.3 in
Precipitation43.6 in42.5 in
Students per teacher19.216.4
Bachelor's or higher32.8%37.1%
Crime rate724376
Commute19.8 min25.7 min
Unemployment4.4%3.6%
Population change+0.5%+7.2%
Wildfire risk74.453.8
Flood risk18.884.6
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.