Comparison
Arkansas vs Louisiana
They differ most on labour market — Louisiana leads by 24 points. How tight the market is, and which way it moved last month.
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 — Arkansas ranks between 45 and 49 and Louisiana between 44 and 49. Louisiana is published ahead of Arkansas at 48 against 49, but 5,402 of those 20,000 weightings — 27.0% — put Arkansas 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
- 3761Labour market24 apart — Arkansas 37, Louisiana 61
- 7263Housing permits and prices9 apart — Arkansas 72, Louisiana 63
- 9284Fiscal standing8 apart — Arkansas 92, Louisiana 84
- 5865Starting up7 apart — Arkansas 58, Louisiana 65
- 4641Productive base5 apart — Arkansas 46, Louisiana 41
- 117Population health4 apart — Arkansas 11, Louisiana 7
- 710Prosperity3 apart — Arkansas 7, Louisiana 10
- 00Opennesslevel — Arkansas 0, Louisiana 0
Tax structure
Arkansas
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Louisiana
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.