Connecticut 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.
Connecticut comes out ahead on 5 of them and South 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.
MeasureConnecticutSouth Carolina
Home price$455,424$309,323
Rent paid$1,537$1,194
Cost of living112.794.7
Income$96,049$72,350
Property tax1.54%0.49%
Income tax6.99%6.00%
Sales tax6.35%7.49%
Electric bill$204$166
Temperature51.3°F63.4°F
Snowfall25.9 in1.5 in
Precipitation42.5 in42.9 in
Sunshine3.89 kWh/m²4.60 kWh/m²
Students per teacher12.314.3
Bachelor's or higher42.6%33.3%
Crime rate136437
Commute27.0 min26.3 min
Unemployment5.2%4.4%
Population change+2.2%+8.8%
Wildfire risk45.071.1
Flood risk95.882.7
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.