Comparison
Colorado vs Nebraska
They differ most on starting up — Colorado leads by 50 points. How many businesses get founded here, and what the state takes in tax.
This ordering turns on the weighting
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 Nebraska between 7 and 23. Colorado is published ahead of Nebraska at 1 against 12, but 14 of those 20,000 weightings — 0.07% — put Nebraska first. The ordering of these two is a property of the weighting as much as of the states. Read the pillars below instead: those are measured, and the weighting does not touch them.
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
- 8939Starting up50 apart — Colorado 89, Nebraska 39
- 6127Openness34 apart — Colorado 61, Nebraska 27
- 8956Prosperity33 apart — Colorado 89, Nebraska 56
- 4879Housing permits and prices31 apart — Colorado 48, Nebraska 79
- 7147Population health24 apart — Colorado 71, Nebraska 47
- 4970Productive base21 apart — Colorado 49, Nebraska 70
- 6864Labour market4 apart — Colorado 68, Nebraska 64
- 9292Fiscal standinglevel — Colorado 92, Nebraska 92
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Nebraska
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.