Rochester → Staunton-Stuarts Draft
Relocation analysis based on 7 federal data sources
Should you move?
Moving from Rochester to Staunton-Stuarts Draft is strongly favorable: BEA regional price parity goes from 97.0 to 91.1 (US = 100), and HUD 2-bedroom rent falls by $312/mo.
- -$9,509
- BLS median salary lower in Staunton-Stuarts Draft
- 380 to 223
- violent crimes per 100K (FBI UCR, state-level)
- 11.8:1 to 13.9:1
- NCES student-teacher ratio
- $3,462
- DOL infant care lower / yr in Staunton-Stuarts Draft
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
- + 6% lower cost of living
- + $312/mo cheaper rent (2BR)
- + Lower violent crime rate
- + More affordable childcare
- + Fewer environmental violations
Cons of Moving
- - $10K lower median salary
- - Higher student-teacher ratios
Purchasing power opens up: BEA RPP falls from 97.0 to 91.1, so each dollar covers more in Staunton-Stuarts Draft (ratio 0.94). HUD 2BR Fair Market Rent drops $312/mo ($3,744/yr) from $1,573 in Rochester to $1,261 in Staunton-Stuarts Draft.
Staunton-Stuarts Draft leads on 5 of 7 federal dimensions, a destination-heavy ledger. Staunton-Stuarts Draft sits #102 of 387 metros on PlainRelocate livability (top third of the corpus). Rochester is #223/387 on the same ranking. Composite verdict: Strongly Favorable. Override it with the dimension table below.
BLS OEWS median salary moves $9,509 lower ($72,785 → $63,276). Labor-market size: 478,930 tracked jobs at origin vs 42,170 at destination.
State retirement friendliness favors the destination: Virginia scores 64 (C, #20/51) vs New York at 46 (F, #46/51). 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
- 80
- Property tax
- 48
- Estate tax
- 50
- Healthcare
- 96
- Income tax
- 78
- Property tax
- 71
- Estate tax
- 100
- Healthcare
- 62
Full retirement ranking · Source composite documented on methodology (Tax Foundation + AARP tax guides + federal healthcare/climate inputs).
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Staunton-Stuarts Draft metro profile · Livability rankings · Methodology
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