Comparison
Indiana vs South Carolina
They differ most on starting up — South Carolina leads by 22 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 — Indiana ranks between 23 and 41 and South Carolina between 16 and 36. South Carolina is published ahead of Indiana at 29 against 32, but 2,310 of those 20,000 weightings — 11.6% — put Indiana 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
- 5274Starting up22 apart — Indiana 52, South Carolina 74
- 6746Productive base21 apart — Indiana 67, South Carolina 46
- 4763Labour market16 apart — Indiana 47, South Carolina 63
- 3318Openness15 apart — Indiana 33, South Carolina 18
- 2231Population health9 apart — Indiana 22, South Carolina 31
- 1822Prosperity4 apart — Indiana 18, South Carolina 22
- 6771Housing permits and prices4 apart — Indiana 67, South Carolina 71
- 100100Fiscal standinglevel — Indiana 100, South Carolina 100
Tax structure
Indiana
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
South Carolina
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.