January 18, 2025
Quarterly Economic Scorecard Shows Performance for Counties, Metros, and States
Headlight Data today released its updated Quarterly Economic Scorecard, which shows performance by quarter for counties, metros, and states. Trend data shows performance over the last ten years… read more
June 30, 2024
Annual Economic Scorecard Shows Performance for Counties, Metros, and States
Headlight Data today released its updated Annual Economic Scorecard, which shows performance by year for counties, metros, and states. Trend data shows performance over the last ten years.Headlight analyzes data from the BLS’ Quarterly… read more
March 7, 2021
COVID-19 Scorecard for States and the US
Headlight Data today released an updated version of our COVID-19 Scorecard for States and the US, which now includes number of tests, hospitalizations, in-ICU, and On-Ventilator if states report this data. Our tableau also allows users to… read more
July 1, 2016
States Attracting Most Newcomers in 2014 are Texas, Florida, Colorado; Most Income Received by Florida, Texas, South Carolina
Recently released data from the Internal Revenue Service illuminates which US states have the highest state-to-state net household migration. Net household migration is total in-migrants minus out-migrants using the IRS-reported number of… read more
November 11, 2015
Wage Growth Inequality Highest in Rhode Island, Maryland, New Hampshire; Lowest in North Dakota, Wyoming, Louisiana
Wage growth inequality can be defined as the difference between the wage growth for two different levels of wage earners.Workers are split between “High Wage” earners and “Low Wage” earners. High Wage earners are those in the… read more
November 11, 2015
North Dakota has Fastest-Growing Median Wage Since 2005; Michigan Wages Declined the Most
As first described in a previous article for large metros, wage performance can be examined at the median wage level and also across the distribution of wages. Since 2005, Ultra-High Wage Earners in the U.S. enjoyed the fastest growing… read more
September 17, 2015
States Attracting Most Foreign Taxpayers in 2013 are Texas, Virginia, and Colorado; California, New York, Illinois Lose Most
Recently released data from the Internal Revenue Service shows that foreign taxpayer net migration (total in-migrants minus out-migrants) is the highest for Texas, which gained 1,700 households in 2013 from foreign locations. Virginia… read more
September 17, 2015
INTERACTIVE MAP: State-to-State Migration 2012-2013
This map shows migration trends between states from 2012-2013 based on IRS tax return data. Migration can be measured in terms of total returns, total exemptions, and total gross income. Migration flows are shown as total in-migration… read more
September 17, 2015
States Attracting Most New Taxpayer Income in 2013 are Florida, Texas, South Carolina; New York, Illinois and California Lose the Most
Recently released data from the Internal Revenue Service shows that state-to-state net migration (total in-migrants minus out-migrants) of Total Gross Income is the highest for Florida, which gained a net of $8.2 billion in 2013 from new… read more
September 17, 2015
States Attracting Most Newcomers in 2013 are Texas, Florida, Colorado; New York, Illinois, New Jersey Lose Most
Recently released data from the Internal Revenue Service shows that state-to-state net migration (total in-migrants minus out-migrants) is the highest for Texas, which gained 70,500 households in 2013 from within the US. Texas gained 42,000… read more