Comparison
Colorado vs North Carolina
They differ most on prosperity — Colorado leads by 40 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 North Carolina between 5 and 16. Colorado is published ahead of North Carolina at 1 against 6, but 30 of those 20,000 weightings — 0.15% — put North Carolina 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
- 8949Prosperity40 apart — Colorado 89, North Carolina 49
- 7141Population health30 apart — Colorado 71, North Carolina 41
- 8964Starting up25 apart — Colorado 89, North Carolina 64
- 4871Housing permits and prices23 apart — Colorado 48, North Carolina 71
- 6851Labour market17 apart — Colorado 68, North Carolina 51
- 4959Productive base10 apart — Colorado 49, North Carolina 59
- 92100Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, North Carolina 100
- 6167Openness6 apart — Colorado 61, North Carolina 67
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
North Carolina
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.