Sample reports
Start with an example of the free Big Picture, open all four full-length StateMatcher relocation reports and ZipInform, then read excerpts that show what the analysis feels like on the page and how questionnaire answers can trigger deeper personalized material.
Illustrative reports
These are illustrative reports created from fictionalized questionnaires, not real customer files. A report built for you uses your own answers, household circumstances, finances, work, healthcare needs, family needs, priorities, risks, and practical constraints. To preserve anonymity, the respondent is simply “you,” while other people are described naturally as “your spouse,” “your partner,” “your adult child,” or another anonymous household description when that is the clearest way to distinguish them.
Click to read the complete sample →Free report sample
This illustrative, 13-page example follows a household of four with three careers, a young child, a plan to rent first in a small town, and retirement within five years. It shows what matters most, what has to work at the same time, where their budget may go further, and what to check first.
Your own free report draws from your questionnaire and does not choose a state for you.
Full report samples
Find states worth investigating, examine one state deeply, compare two finalists, or turn a chosen destination into a practical action plan.
U.S. State Match sample
Three scored recommendations plus a useful Wildcard.
Results page · 38-page sample
Click to read the complete sample →See how State Match connects household needs to state and metro evidence, explains why the leading choices fit, makes tradeoffs visible, and identifies what still needs local verification.
U.S. State Deep Dive sample
One state examined against a detailed household profile.
Dashboard page · 68-page sample
Click to read the complete sample →See how Deep Dive examines costs, taxes, work, healthcare, housing, hazards, safety, schools, community, state-law preferences, regional choices, and the facts that should be verified before a commitment.
U.S. State Compare sample
The same household, two serious options, visible tradeoffs.
Dashboard page · 69-page sample
Click to read the complete sample →See how Compare applies the same priorities to both states, shows where each has an edge, and separates meaningful differences from questions that can only be settled locally.
U.S. State Action Plan sample
Turn a promising state into an ordered investigation and move plan.
Dashboard page · 82-page sample
Click to read the complete sample →See how Action Plan converts a chosen destination into decision gates, a household budget and move reserve, licensing and employment work, healthcare transfer, housing checks, landing-area field tests, a timeline, and a prioritized action list.
Click to read the complete sample →ZipInform sample · Washington, DC 20008
See how ZipInform turns a starting ZIP into a practical home-search report covering the ZIP area, nearby neighborhoods, housing, schools, property taxes, commute patterns, safety, insurance and property risk, hospitals, local amenities, and buyer due-diligence checks.
Inside the reports
These excerpts show how StateMatcher gets into the questions that can actually decide whether a move works: finding work, healthcare, safety, hazards and insurance, and schools.
Finding work · State Match
“Your household needs one realistic metro where you can work as a plumber, your spouse or partner can work as a lawyer, and your adult child can work as a dentist. Strong opportunities scattered across separate cities do not establish that you can move together.”
Each pay range is tested against that worker's minimum income target, and the report names the one career that most limits where the household can live together.
Read more >Job availability & earnings · Michigan Deep Dive
“Your household has 3 people who need destination-dependent work. This section looks for one common job market where all essential workers can realistically pursue their careers.”
The report names Detroit-Warren-Dearborn as the best starting point, rates its job market 3.1 out of 5 stars, and compares planning pay, minimum-income targets, licensing friction, and whether everyone can realistically work in the same labor market.
Read more >Health Watch · State Match
Health Watch gives a statewide baseline, while the personalized analysis separately tests the hospitals, specialists, insurance networks, medications, and travel times the household actually needs.
Read more >Safety Watch · State Match
Ratings are out of 5 stars, built from 2025 FBI violent-crime, property-crime, and homicide rates against the U.S. benchmark—not a prediction of personal risk. The report keeps neighborhood and school safety as separate, local checks.
Read more >Hazards & insurance · State Match
“Property insurance warrants routine address-level checking across the shortlist, with somewhat greater pressure in Arkansas. … New Jersey and Maryland have last-resort insurance mechanisms, but neither guarantees eligibility or an affordable policy.”
The verification checklist then turns hazards into specific checks: county and exact-address exposure, flood and elevation, roof and building condition, deductibles and exclusions, and keeping hurricane wind, coastal flooding, earthquake, and winter disruption separate.
Read more >Schools & education · Minnesota vs. Nevada
“Minnesota offers a more consistently strong set of historical academic leads in the small-town or rural settings you prefer. Nevada still has a credible school-and-setting choice in Douglas.”
The comparison follows district evidence across the grade span relevant to the children, looks at whether results are steady or improving, and keeps school quality tied to housing, commute, and setting preferences.
Read more >From StateMatcher customers
These customer experiences show how the same report family can support very different households, priorities, careers, and stages of a move.
“I just retired from teaching and want my pension to stretch further, but I also see a heart specialist regularly and can’t give that up. My shortlist focused on states where lower costs and strong hospital and cardiology access overlap.”
— Linda A., currently in Illinois
“The Deep Dive helped me see which communities offer reliable internet, a more manageable budget, and the outdoor lifestyle I want. It also opened my eyes to how winter driving and housing costs might change the picture.”
— Priya S., currently in Oregon
“Our Compare showed us which state came out stronger for public schools, safety, and professional opportunities. Knowing where our kids are likely to get the best start means everything to us right now.”
— James and Teresa C., currently in Texas
“Our Action Plan ranks areas to explore based on schools, commute, and budget, then lays out a phased plan: verify schools, line up pediatric care, and then start house-hunting.”
— Maria and Tom B., currently in New Jersey
Retirement planning
This North Carolina sample does not isolate retirement in one chapter. Retirement context changes the benefits timeline, taxes, healthcare, housing, income continuity, move timing, and the personalized supplemental material that brings those threads together.
Federal benefits timeline · North Carolina Action Plan
The report then explains why the 4-year, 7-month gap between Medicare milestones can matter for coverage, provider networks, and household cash flow.
Read more >Retirement taxes · North Carolina Action Plan
“North Carolina does not tax Social Security benefits at the state level.”
The chapter separately examines other retirement income, parcel-level property taxes, capital gains, filing status, and what still needs household-specific verification.
Read more >Personalized supplemental material
“The main work now is to make sure the tax treatment, Medicare coverage, healthcare access, housing choice, and future care options hold up for you and your spouse in the specific community you choose.”
The supplement pulls together both spouses' benefit milestones, Medicare, retirement-income taxes, domicile, housing accessibility, healthcare, mobility, and future-care planning.
Read the supplement >Read the complete 70-page report to see how retirement context carries across the Decision Dashboard, taxes, healthcare, housing, income, landing areas, move timeline, priority actions, and supplemental plan.
Personalized supplemental material
These excerpts come from a separate Colorado Action Plan. They show how questionnaire-selected concerns can add specialized material without turning those concerns into assumptions about every customer.
Personalized supplement · Colorado
See how questionnaire-selected LGBTQ+ concerns can trigger a dedicated assessment covering relationship and family recognition, identity documents, social climate, safety, privacy, community access, regional variation, and practical next steps.
Personalized healthcare supplement · Colorado
See how independently selected healthcare needs can trigger a deeper continuity plan for HIV treatment or prevention, gender-affirming care, cardiology, home health, medication access, records transfer, insurance, and backup care.
The healthcare excerpt is shown because the hypothetical profile independently selected specialized healthcare needs. LGBTQ+ status does not imply HIV, trans identity, gender-affirming care, or any other medical condition, and a medical need does not imply LGBTQ+ identity.
You have seen what the reports actually do
Compare the paid report options, choose the depth of analysis you need, and start with your own household, priorities, and destination questions.