Comparison
Colorado vs Indiana
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 Indiana between 23 and 41. Colorado finishes above Indiana 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, Indiana 18
- 7122Population health49 apart — Colorado 71, Indiana 22
- 8952Starting up37 apart — Colorado 89, Indiana 52
- 6133Openness28 apart — Colorado 61, Indiana 33
- 6847Labour market21 apart — Colorado 68, Indiana 47
- 4867Housing permits and prices19 apart — Colorado 48, Indiana 67
- 4967Productive base18 apart — Colorado 49, Indiana 67
- 92100Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, Indiana 100
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Indiana
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.