Comparison
North Dakota vs Oklahoma
They differ most on starting up — Oklahoma 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 — North Dakota ranks between 29 and 43 and Oklahoma between 25 and 43. North Dakota is published ahead of Oklahoma at 37 against 38, but 8,506 of those 20,000 weightings — 42.5% — put Oklahoma 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
- 1371Starting up58 apart — North Dakota 13, Oklahoma 71
- 5826Productive base32 apart — North Dakota 58, Oklahoma 26
- 5018Prosperity32 apart — North Dakota 50, Oklahoma 18
- 2751Openness24 apart — North Dakota 27, Oklahoma 51
- 4724Population health23 apart — North Dakota 47, Oklahoma 24
- 6172Housing permits and prices11 apart — North Dakota 61, Oklahoma 72
- 9284Fiscal standing8 apart — North Dakota 92, Oklahoma 84
- 5148Labour market3 apart — North Dakota 51, Oklahoma 48
Tax structure
North Dakota
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Oklahoma
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.