Colorado vs Connecticut
Twenty measures that tend to decide a move, side by side. Every figure is the same one the map shows, from the same source.
Colorado comes out ahead on 9 of them and Connecticut on 6, 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.
MeasureColoradoConnecticut
Home price$543,435$455,424
Rent paid$1,727$1,537
Cost of living102.7112.7
Income$97,113$96,049
Property tax0.50%1.54%
Income tax4.40%6.99%
Sales tax7.89%6.35%
Electric bill$109$204
Temperature49.7°F51.3°F
Snowfall39.1 in25.9 in
Precipitation15.8 in42.5 in
Sunshine4.76 kWh/m²3.89 kWh/m²
Students per teacher16.612.3
Bachelor's or higher47.8%42.6%
Crime rate476136
Commute25.7 min27.0 min
Unemployment3.9%5.2%
Population change+4.1%+2.2%
Wildfire risk86.945.0
Flood risk85.495.8
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.