Comparison
Maryland vs New Hampshire
They differ most on openness — Maryland leads by 65 points. Whether the state publishes in a form a machine can read: an open-data portal that answers; incentive, permit and finance records as data; and newsroom feeds.
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 — Maryland ranks between 5 and 19 and New Hampshire between 3 and 23. New Hampshire is published ahead of Maryland at 7 against 8, but 8,251 of those 20,000 weightings — 41.3% — put Maryland 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
- 650Openness65 apart — Maryland 65, New Hampshire 0
- 3365Starting up32 apart — Maryland 33, New Hampshire 65
- 3861Productive base23 apart — Maryland 38, New Hampshire 61
- 7181Labour market10 apart — Maryland 71, New Hampshire 81
- 7180Population health9 apart — Maryland 71, New Hampshire 80
- 10092Fiscal standing8 apart — Maryland 100, New Hampshire 92
- 2731Housing permits and prices4 apart — Maryland 27, New Hampshire 31
- 8684Prosperity2 apart — Maryland 86, New Hampshire 84
Tax structure
Maryland
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
New Hampshire
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.