Comparison
Colorado vs Louisiana
They differ most on prosperity — Colorado leads by 79 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 Louisiana between 44 and 49. Colorado finishes above Louisiana 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
- 8910Prosperity79 apart — Colorado 89, Louisiana 10
- 717Population health64 apart — Colorado 71, Louisiana 7
- 610Openness61 apart — Colorado 61, Louisiana 0
- 8965Starting up24 apart — Colorado 89, Louisiana 65
- 4863Housing permits and prices15 apart — Colorado 48, Louisiana 63
- 4941Productive base8 apart — Colorado 49, Louisiana 41
- 9284Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, Louisiana 84
- 6861Labour market7 apart — Colorado 68, Louisiana 61
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Louisiana
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.