Comparison
Colorado vs Georgia
They differ most on openness — Colorado leads by 61 points. Whether the state publishes in a form a machine can read: an open-data portal that answers; incentive, permit and finance records as data; and newsroom feeds.
No defensible weighting reverses this ordering
The 8 pillars are averaged equally, which is declared rather than tuned. 20,000 other weightings were drawn and the whole table re-ranked under each; restricted to the ones a person could defend — every pillar between 6.25% and 25% of the total — Colorado ranks between 1 and 3 and Georgia between 15 and 38. Colorado finishes above Georgia in every one of those 20,000 weightings — not one reverses it — so on this pair the ordering is a result rather than an artefact of the equal weighting.
875 of the 1,275 possible pairings of these 51 jurisdictions are reversed by some defensible weighting. Most comparisons a reader can build on this site do not have a defensible ordering, and the ones that do are worth more than the rank beside them.
Pillar by pillar, widest divergence first
- 610Openness61 apart — Colorado 61, Georgia 0
- 8937Prosperity52 apart — Colorado 89, Georgia 37
- 7134Population health37 apart — Colorado 71, Georgia 34
- 6845Labour market23 apart — Colorado 68, Georgia 45
- 4864Housing permits and prices16 apart — Colorado 48, Georgia 64
- 92100Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, Georgia 100
- 4953Productive base4 apart — Colorado 49, Georgia 53
- 8988Starting up1 apart — Colorado 89, Georgia 88
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Georgia
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Census Bureau, Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections. Where a state levies no such tax the survey records it, and so does this — the absence is a fact, not a gap.