Expansion Plan
Coverage Roadmap
BenchmarkUSA expands where source-backed local-government comparisons are most likely to matter: places with economic and population density, jurisdiction complexity, personal and collaborator presence, and visible site use, demand, and interest.
The default sequence below is not fixed. Email [email protected] to share the questions you want answered and tell us where a region should move up the queue.
Product Rollout
- Current pilot: Metro-DC guidance pilot. DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland suburbs are the first test because one relocation decision can cross three tax systems and many local-government structures. We also have collaborators close to the region, analytics showing heavier early use there, and a civic-minded population that cares about whether public dollars produce competent services.
- Likely second: Metro-NYC. Metro-NYC is an important national tri-state area: fiscally, culturally, and symbolically important to the country, and personally important to the project. It also builds on the app's deeper New York public-finance substrate while forcing us to handle NYC, Yonkers/Westchester, Long Island, northern New Jersey, Connecticut, and commuter-rule complexity carefully.
- High-priority follow-on: Greater Boston and New England. The Boston, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island network is a priority because of collaborator ties and because New England's town-first governance model is an important national archetype.
- Likely fourth if demand does not redirect us: Metro-Cincinnati. Metro-Cincinnati is a cross-border Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana metro with deep personal interest for the project and enough jurisdiction complexity to be a useful national test case after the larger coastal metros.
- Additional metros and states by demand. User behavior matters. If people use the site, send questions, and ask for a specific region, that can move it ahead of the default queue.
What This Roadmap Is Not
This is not a promise that every listed state has complete tax, school, service, infrastructure, or pension coverage today. It is an honest ordering of where we expect to collect and validate source-backed data next, subject to source quality, user demand, and reviewable methodology.