Racine-Mount Pleasant → Lincoln
Relocation analysis based on 7 federal data sources
Should you move?
Moving from Racine-Mount Pleasant to Lincoln is strongly favorable: BEA regional price parity goes from 96.0 to 91.6 (US = 100), and HUD 2-bedroom rent falls by $94/mo.
- -$294
- BLS median salary lower in Lincoln
- 280 to 217
- violent crimes per 100K (FBI UCR, state-level)
- 14.4:1 to 13.5:1
- NCES student-teacher ratio
- $1,393
- DOL infant care lower / yr in Lincoln
BEA Regional Price Parity, HUD Fair Market Rent, BLS OEWS, FBI UCR, NCES, and DOL. The table below lets you override the composite with your own priorities.
Pros of Moving
- + 4% lower cost of living
- + $94/mo cheaper rent (2BR)
- + Lower violent crime rate
Purchasing power stays near-even: BEA RPP moves only from 96.0 to 91.6 (ratio 0.95), inside a ±5% band. HUD 2BR Fair Market Rent drops $94/mo ($1,128/yr) from $1,235 in Racine-Mount Pleasant to $1,141 in Lincoln.
Lincoln leads on 6 of 7 federal dimensions, a destination-heavy ledger. Lincoln sits #24 of 387 metros on PlainRelocate livability (top third of the corpus). Racine-Mount Pleasant is #163/387 on the same ranking. Composite verdict: Strongly Favorable. Override it with the dimension table below.
BLS OEWS median salary moves $294 lower ($66,191 → $65,897). Labor-market size: 70,050 tracked jobs at origin vs 174,050 at destination.
State retirement friendliness favors the destination: Nebraska scores 67 (C, #16/51) vs Wisconsin at 57 (D, #32/51). Full state tax and healthcare sub-scores sit in the retirement desk below.
State retirement friendliness
Primary-state scores from PlainRelocate's retirement registry (tax + healthcare + climate composite). Metro pairs use each metro's primary state abbreviation.
- Income tax
- 62
- Property tax
- 56
- Estate tax
- 100
- Healthcare
- 40
- Income tax
- 65
- Property tax
- 62
- Estate tax
- 50
- Healthcare
- 66
Full retirement ranking · Source composite documented on methodology (Tax Foundation + AARP tax guides + federal healthcare/climate inputs).
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Source: BEA Regional Price Parities, HUD Fair Market Rents, BLS OES, FBI UCR, NCES, DOL, EPA; retirement desk: Tax Foundation + AARP tax guides June 2026