Colorado 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.
Colorado comes out ahead on 4 of them and North Carolina on 10, 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.
MeasureColoradoNorth Carolina
Home price$543,435$340,430
Rent paid$1,727$1,215
Cost of living102.797.8
Income$97,113$73,958
Property tax0.50%0.66%
Income tax4.40%3.99%
Sales tax7.89%7.10%
Electric bill$109$151
Temperature49.7°F60.3°F
Snowfall39.1 in2.3 in
Precipitation15.8 in42.5 in
Sunshine4.76 kWh/m²4.46 kWh/m²
Students per teacher16.616.4
Bachelor's or higher47.8%37.1%
Crime rate476376
Commute25.7 min25.7 min
Unemployment3.9%3.6%
Population change+4.1%+7.2%
Wildfire risk86.953.8
Flood risk85.484.6
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.