Comparison
Colorado vs Oklahoma
They differ most on prosperity — Colorado leads by 71 points. What the average person in the state actually earns.
No defensible weighting reverses this ordering
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 — Colorado ranks between 1 and 3 and Oklahoma between 25 and 43. Colorado finishes above Oklahoma in every one of those 20,000 weightings — not one reverses it — so on this pair the ordering is a result rather than an artefact of the equal weighting.
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
- 8918Prosperity71 apart — Colorado 89, Oklahoma 18
- 7124Population health47 apart — Colorado 71, Oklahoma 24
- 4872Housing permits and prices24 apart — Colorado 48, Oklahoma 72
- 4926Productive base23 apart — Colorado 49, Oklahoma 26
- 6848Labour market20 apart — Colorado 68, Oklahoma 48
- 8971Starting up18 apart — Colorado 89, Oklahoma 71
- 6151Openness10 apart — Colorado 61, Oklahoma 51
- 9284Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, Oklahoma 84
Tax structure
Colorado
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.