Colorado 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.
Colorado comes out ahead on 7 of them and New Mexico on 8, 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.
MeasureColoradoNew Mexico
Home price$543,435$321,186
Rent paid$1,727$1,073
Cost of living102.793.7
Income$97,113$67,816
Property tax0.50%0.63%
Income tax4.40%5.90%
Sales tax7.89%7.68%
Electric bill$109$98
Temperature49.7°F56.8°F
Snowfall39.1 in8.9 in
Precipitation15.8 in11.3 in
Sunshine4.76 kWh/m²5.56 kWh/m²
Students per teacher16.613.8
Bachelor's or higher47.8%31.8%
Crime rate476717
Commute25.7 min24.0 min
Unemployment3.9%4.8%
Population change+4.1%+0.4%
Wildfire risk86.992.1
Flood risk85.488.2
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.