Comparison
Arizona vs Minnesota
They differ most on starting up — Arizona leads by 57 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 — Arizona ranks between 15 and 34 and Minnesota between 12 and 37. Minnesota is published ahead of Arizona at 25 against 28, but 8,822 of those 20,000 weightings — 44.1% — put Arizona 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
- 7720Starting up57 apart — Arizona 77, Minnesota 20
- 530Openness53 apart — Arizona 53, Minnesota 0
- 3775Prosperity38 apart — Arizona 37, Minnesota 75
- 3669Productive base33 apart — Arizona 36, Minnesota 69
- 4577Population health32 apart — Arizona 45, Minnesota 77
- 92100Fiscal standing8 apart — Arizona 92, Minnesota 100
- 5863Housing permits and prices5 apart — Arizona 58, Minnesota 63
- 3736Labour market1 apart — Arizona 37, Minnesota 36
Tax structure
Arizona
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Minnesota
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.