Comparison
Colorado vs Hawaii
They differ most on starting up — Colorado leads by 85 points. How many businesses get founded here, and what the state takes in tax.
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 Hawaii between 11 and 39. Colorado finishes above Hawaii 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
- 894Starting up85 apart — Colorado 89, Hawaii 4
- 4821Housing permits and prices27 apart — Colorado 48, Hawaii 21
- 7197Population health26 apart — Colorado 71, Hawaii 97
- 8967Prosperity22 apart — Colorado 89, Hawaii 67
- 4935Productive base14 apart — Colorado 49, Hawaii 35
- 6175Openness14 apart — Colorado 61, Hawaii 75
- 9284Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, Hawaii 84
- 6863Labour market5 apart — Colorado 68, Hawaii 63
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Hawaii
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.