Colorado
Moderate tax burden · COL index 110
Wins 5 categories
Ohio
Moderate tax burden · COL index 88
Wins 8 categories
Cost of living in Colorado (index 110) runs 25% higher than Ohio (index 88). Property taxes are meaningfully different: Ohio averages 1.37% annually vs Colorado's 0.48%. The median home in Colorado costs $545K vs $235K in Ohio. Politically, Ohio voted Republican in 2024 (R+12.0) while Colorado went Democratic (D+11.0).
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Is it cheaper to live in Colorado or Ohio?
Overall cost of living in Colorado Springs, CO is 3.7% higher than in Dayton, OH. The average listing price for a home in Colorado Springs, CO is $523,031, which is 19.0% higher than Dayton, OH. The average cost of groceries in Colorado Springs, CO is 3.2% higher than Dayton, OH.
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Is Colorado becoming unaffordable?
There is truly an affordability gap here in Northern Colorado. And one of the main reasons, between 2015 to 2025, home prices have jumped over 100%, somewhere between 100 to 200% in some areas. And rents went up as well, not nearly as much but still pretty significantly.