Delawareans may see the First State as the best place to live, and it’s known as a retirement haven to many, but a new study paints Delaware as one of the worst states to move to.
Here’s how the study defends its low ranking of Delaware.
Worst states to move to
Manifest Law, an employment and immigration law firm, conducted a study to determine which states are the worst to immigrate to in the United States.
Fifty factors – including crimes, disposable income and pupil-to-teacher ratios – were grouped into the categories of crime and arrests (weighted at 15.41%); economic indicators (23.71%); educational indicators (18.86%); housing availability and costs (19.4%); living costs (14.01%); and safety and infrastructure (8.62%). Each factor was scaled individually from 0 to 10, with the total score of each factor calculated per weighted category, resulting in the final ranking for each state. Negative variables like crime and arrests and living costs were inverted, meaning a higher rank is better, according to Manifest Law.
A man watches the surf and surfers as a day ends under the Indian River Inlet Bridge at Delaware Seashore State Park, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, during the unofficial end to summer, Labor Day weekend.
The study places Delaware as the ninth worst state to immigrate to in the U.S., scoring a 48.4 out of 100.
Delaware ranks above average in the categories of economic indicators (in 20th place) and safety and infrastructure (in 17th place). Despite these higher scores, Delaware’s overall ranking is brought down by low performances in the categories of educational indicators (placing at No. 46) and living costs (placing at No. 44).
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The other top 10 worst states to move to are:
Seventh- and eighth-grade students from McCullough Middle School tour the Delaware Memorial Bridge.
The top 10 best states to immigrate to, according to Manifest Law, are:
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This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: Delaware named one of the top 10 worst states to immigrate to in study
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