The cost of living in America is remarkably high in many of its cities, especially
when compared to the median income of its population. This visualisation takes
the cost of housing, groceries, transportation, utilities, health care, and more in
cities from across the 50 states and compares them to each other.
For each column, the data is shown in ascending order from top to bottom. This
means, a city at the top of a column has a lower cost for that category than one
that is at the bottom of the same column. An exception is made for the "relative"
column, as it ranks cities from least favourable to most favourable when both the
median income and cost of living have been taken into consideration. For every
column, each city is represented by a line, where the length of the line indicates
the median income of the given city.