North Carolina vs Texas
Core move questions, side by side. Open the interactive comparison for every measure, grouped by category.
Compare every measure interactivelyNorth Carolina comes out ahead on 2 of them and Texas on 5, 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.
MeasureNorth CarolinaTexas
Typical home value$332,159$296,424
Home price-to-income4.5×3.7×
Household income$73,958$79,721
Property tax0.66%1.40%
Income tax3.99%0.00%
Sales tax7.10%8.20%
Temperature60.3°F69.7°F
Population11,046,02431,290,831
Cost of living97.892.1
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.