Comparison
North Carolina vs Texas
They differ most on starting up — Texas leads by 20 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 — North Carolina ranks between 5 and 16 and Texas between 2 and 13. Texas is published ahead of North Carolina at 5 against 6, but 524 of those 20,000 weightings — 2.6% — put North Carolina 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
- 6484Starting up20 apart — North Carolina 64, Texas 84
- 5137Labour market14 apart — North Carolina 51, Texas 37
- 7181Housing permits and prices10 apart — North Carolina 71, Texas 81
- 6771Openness4 apart — North Carolina 67, Texas 71
- 4144Population health3 apart — North Carolina 41, Texas 44
- 5957Productive base2 apart — North Carolina 59, Texas 57
- 4948Prosperity1 apart — North Carolina 49, Texas 48
- 100100Fiscal standinglevel — North Carolina 100, Texas 100
Tax structure
North Carolina
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Texas
No individual income tax
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.