MoverMath
Rankings
Every state ordered on every measure. Where a measure has a better end — price, schools, air quality — it is listed once, in that direction. Where it has none — snowfall, temperature, median age — it is listed both ways, since the order describes the states rather than ranking them.
Housing
- The cheapest states to buy a house
- Highest price trend
- Lowest price trend
- The cheapest states to rent in
- Highest typical age
- Lowest typical age
- Highest built before 1980
- Lowest built before 1980
- Highest manufactured homes
- Lowest manufactured homes
- Highest vacancy rate
- Lowest vacancy rate
- Highest renters
- Lowest renters
- Highest second homes
- Lowest second homes
- Lowest rent
- Lowest fair market rent
- Lowest fair market rent, 1-bed
- Lowest fair market rent, 3-bed
- Lowest affordability
- Lowest home insurance
Money
Taxes
Weather
Utilities
- The states with the cheapest electricity
- Highest utilities serving
- Lowest utilities serving
- Lowest electricity rate
- Highest electricity use
- Lowest electricity use
- Lowest natural gas
- Highest electric heat
- Lowest electric heat
- Highest gas heat
- Lowest gas heat
- Highest propane heat
- Lowest propane heat
- Highest fuel oil heat
- Lowest fuel oil heat
- Highest wood heat
- Lowest wood heat
- Highest broadband
Gardening
Place
- Highest population
- Lowest population
- Highest land area
- Lowest land area
- Highest population density
- Lowest population density
- Highest grocery stores
- Lowest grocery stores
- Highest convenience stores
- Lowest convenience stores
- Lowest distance to food
- Lowest food deserts
- The fastest growing states
- The states losing people
- Highest births minus deaths
- Lowest births minus deaths
- Highest international arrivals
- Lowest international arrivals
- Highest median age
- Lowest median age
- Highest children
- Lowest children
- Highest retirement age
- Lowest retirement age
- Highest living alone
- Lowest living alone
- Highest born abroad
- Lowest born abroad
- Highest second languages
- Lowest second languages
- Highest religious adherence
- Lowest religious adherence
- Highest congregations
- Lowest congregations
- Highest migration
- Lowest migration
- The states people are moving to
- Lowest net migration rate
- Highest households in
- Lowest households out
- Highest income of arrivals
- Highest income of leavers
- Lowest income of leavers
- Highest new homes permitted
- Lowest new homes permitted
- Highest homes permitted
- Lowest homes permitted
- Highest multifamily share
- Lowest multifamily share
- The safest states
- The most Republican states
- The most Democratic states
Transportation
- The states with the shortest commutes
- Lowest airline distance
- Highest airport traffic
- Lowest airport traffic
- Highest ga distance
- Lowest ga distance
- Highest airline airports
- Highest ga airfields
- Lowest ga airfields
- Highest train stations
- Lowest nearest station
- Lowest no vehicle
- Lowest road safety
- Lowest road safety trend
Schools
- The most educated states
- Lowest bachelor's or higher
- Highest high school or higher
- Lowest high school or higher
- Highest public schools
- Lowest public schools
- Highest students
- Lowest students
- The states with the smallest classes
- Highest free lunch eligible
- Lowest free lunch eligible
- Highest elementary schools
- Lowest elementary schools
- Highest middle schools
- Lowest middle schools
- Highest high schools
- Lowest high schools
- Highest colleges
- Lowest colleges
- Highest public colleges
- Lowest public colleges
- Highest two-year colleges
- Lowest two-year colleges
- Lowest nearest college
Sports
Jobs
Health
Risk
- The states with the least flood risk
- Lowest coastal flood risk
- Lowest drought risk
- Lowest landslide risk
- Lowest hail risk
- The states with the least earthquake risk
- The states with the least tornado risk
- The states safest from hurricanes
- Lowest heat risk
- Lowest winter weather risk
- Lowest wind risk
- The states with the least wildfire risk
Head to head
Any two states side by side on the twenty measures that tend to decide a move. Some of the most looked-at pairs:
Figures come from the same data as the map. Each ranking names its source and says which places are missing from it. How this is built