Colorado vs Tennessee
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 Tennessee 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.
MeasureColoradoTennessee
Home price$543,435$338,769
Rent paid$1,727$1,171
Cost of living102.790.3
Income$97,113$71,997
Property tax0.50%0.52%
Income tax4.40%0.00%
Sales tax7.89%9.61%
Electric bill$109$163
Temperature49.7°F60.1°F
Snowfall39.1 in4.8 in
Precipitation15.8 in53.3 in
Sunshine4.76 kWh/m²4.30 kWh/m²
Bachelor's or higher47.8%32.4%
Crime rate476592
Commute25.7 min26.5 min
Unemployment3.9%3.5%
Population change+4.1%+5.8%
Wildfire risk86.948.1
Flood risk85.476.4
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.