Expansion Plan

Coverage Roadmap

BenchmarkUSA is starting with focused regions and state data sources where we can produce source-backed comparisons without pretending that coverage is broader than it is. User demand can change the order.

Tell us what region to cover next

Product Rollout

Current pilot: Metro-DC guidance pilot. DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland suburbs create a useful first test because one relocation decision can cross three tax systems and many local-government structures.
Likely second: Metro-NYC. Metro-NYC is fiscally, culturally, and symbolically important to the country, and it has strong existing collaborator ties. 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, 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. Massachusetts data is also promising enough to keep on the local-finance source roadmap.
Additional metros and states by demand. Requests from users outside Metro-DC are useful evidence. If enough people ask for a specific region, that can move it ahead of the default technical queue.

Local Finance Data Priorities

The current internal importability roadmap prioritizes states where official local-government finance data looks broad enough and practical enough to process at scale.

California
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Florida
Washington
Utah
Connecticut

Jurisdiction Mapping Waves

The geography layer expands separately from report copy and tax-rate coverage. Mapping work must prove containment, overlap, and local-government identity rules before it becomes a public calculator or guidance claim.

Wave 0: New York baseline. Existing county-municipality graph work and source-backed fiscal metrics.
Wave 1: standard county and municipality states. Candidate states: Florida and Georgia.
Wave 2: township-heavy states. Candidate states: Pennsylvania and Ohio.

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.