Comparison
Georgia vs Illinois
They differ most on starting up — Georgia leads by 58 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 — Georgia ranks between 15 and 38 and Illinois between 19 and 39. Georgia is published ahead of Illinois at 29 against 29, but 10,972 of those 20,000 weightings — 54.9% — put Illinois 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
- 8830Starting up58 apart — Georgia 88, Illinois 30
- 057Openness57 apart — Georgia 0, Illinois 57
- 10052Fiscal standing48 apart — Georgia 100, Illinois 52
- 3773Prosperity36 apart — Georgia 37, Illinois 73
- 6437Housing permits and prices27 apart — Georgia 64, Illinois 37
- 5376Productive base23 apart — Georgia 53, Illinois 76
- 3455Population health21 apart — Georgia 34, Illinois 55
- 4547Labour market2 apart — Georgia 45, Illinois 47
Tax structure
Georgia
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Illinois
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.