Comparison
Colorado vs Florida
They differ most on prosperity — Colorado leads by 31 points. What the average person in the state actually earns.
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 — Colorado ranks between 1 and 3 and Florida between 2 and 10. Colorado is published ahead of Florida at 1 against 4, but 92 of those 20,000 weightings — 0.46% — put Florida 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
- 8958Prosperity31 apart — Colorado 89, Florida 58
- 6840Labour market28 apart — Colorado 68, Florida 40
- 4934Productive base15 apart — Colorado 49, Florida 34
- 4859Housing permits and prices11 apart — Colorado 48, Florida 59
- 6171Openness10 apart — Colorado 61, Florida 71
- 92100Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, Florida 100
- 8995Starting up6 apart — Colorado 89, Florida 95
- 7169Population health2 apart — Colorado 71, Florida 69
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Florida
No individual income tax
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.