Comparison
Colorado vs Rhode Island
They differ most on starting up — Colorado leads by 72 points. How many businesses get founded here, and what the state takes in tax.
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 Rhode Island between 34 and 50. Colorado finishes above Rhode Island 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
- 8917Starting up72 apart — Colorado 89, Rhode Island 17
- 610Openness61 apart — Colorado 61, Rhode Island 0
- 489Housing permits and prices39 apart — Colorado 48, Rhode Island 9
- 8964Prosperity25 apart — Colorado 89, Rhode Island 64
- 4933Productive base16 apart — Colorado 49, Rhode Island 33
- 7184Population health13 apart — Colorado 71, Rhode Island 84
- 9284Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, Rhode Island 84
- 6863Labour market5 apart — Colorado 68, Rhode Island 63
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Rhode Island
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.