Colorado vs Delaware
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 8 of them and Delaware 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.
MeasureColoradoDelaware
Home price$543,435$412,252
Rent paid$1,727$1,378
Cost of living102.7101.9
Income$97,113$87,534
Property tax0.50%0.54%
Income tax4.40%6.60%
Sales tax7.89%0.00%
Electric bill$109$167
Temperature49.7°F55.7°F
Snowfall39.1 in13.6 in
Precipitation15.8 in39.5 in
Sunshine4.76 kWh/m²4.11 kWh/m²
Students per teacher16.614.8
Bachelor's or higher47.8%36.0%
Crime rate476361
Commute25.7 min26.8 min
Unemployment3.9%4.9%
Population change+4.1%+7.1%
Wildfire risk86.967.4
Flood risk85.493.7
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.