Comparison
Colorado vs Tennessee
They differ most on prosperity — Colorado leads by 58 points. What the average person in the state actually earns.
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 Tennessee between 8 and 28. Colorado finishes above Tennessee 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
- 8931Prosperity58 apart — Colorado 89, Tennessee 31
- 6118Openness43 apart — Colorado 61, Tennessee 18
- 8964Starting up25 apart — Colorado 89, Tennessee 64
- 4969Productive base20 apart — Colorado 49, Tennessee 69
- 4865Housing permits and prices17 apart — Colorado 48, Tennessee 65
- 6857Labour market11 apart — Colorado 68, Tennessee 57
- 92100Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, Tennessee 100
- 71—Population healthnot comparable — Colorado 71, Tennessee no score
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Tennessee
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.