Comparison
Colorado vs Washington
They differ most on starting up — Colorado leads by 64 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 Washington between 1 and 9. Colorado is published ahead of Washington at 1 against 3, but 2,099 of those 20,000 weightings — 10.5% — put Washington 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
- 8925Starting up64 apart — Colorado 89, Washington 25
- 6186Openness25 apart — Colorado 61, Washington 86
- 4968Productive base19 apart — Colorado 49, Washington 68
- 6852Labour market16 apart — Colorado 68, Washington 52
- 92100Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, Washington 100
- 4841Housing permits and prices7 apart — Colorado 48, Washington 41
- 7175Population health4 apart — Colorado 71, Washington 75
- 8985Prosperity4 apart — Colorado 89, Washington 85
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Washington
Individual income tax levied
No corporate income tax
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.