Alaska vs South 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 6 of them and South Carolina 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.
MeasureAlaskaSouth Carolina
Home price$400,659$309,323
Rent paid$1,397$1,194
Cost of living124.994.7
Income$95,665$72,350
Property tax0.94%0.49%
Income tax0.00%6.00%
Sales tax1.82%7.49%
Electric bill$157$166
Temperature36.4°F63.4°F
Snowfall46.0 in1.5 in
Precipitation43.6 in42.9 in
Students per teacher19.214.3
Bachelor's or higher32.8%33.3%
Crime rate724437
Commute19.8 min26.3 min
Unemployment4.4%4.4%
Population change+0.5%+8.8%
Wildfire risk74.471.1
Flood risk18.882.7
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.