Colorado 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.
Colorado comes out ahead on 6 of them and South Carolina on 9, 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.
MeasureColoradoSouth Carolina
Home price$543,435$309,323
Rent paid$1,727$1,194
Cost of living102.794.7
Income$97,113$72,350
Property tax0.50%0.49%
Income tax4.40%6.00%
Sales tax7.89%7.49%
Electric bill$109$166
Temperature49.7°F63.4°F
Snowfall39.1 in1.5 in
Precipitation15.8 in42.9 in
Sunshine4.76 kWh/m²4.60 kWh/m²
Students per teacher16.614.3
Bachelor's or higher47.8%33.3%
Crime rate476437
Commute25.7 min26.3 min
Unemployment3.9%4.4%
Population change+4.1%+8.8%
Wildfire risk86.971.1
Flood risk85.482.7
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.