Comparison
Colorado vs Texas
They differ most on prosperity — Colorado leads by 41 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 Texas between 2 and 13. Colorado is published ahead of Texas at 1 against 5, but 957 of those 20,000 weightings — 4.8% — put Texas 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
- 8948Prosperity41 apart — Colorado 89, Texas 48
- 4881Housing permits and prices33 apart — Colorado 48, Texas 81
- 6837Labour market31 apart — Colorado 68, Texas 37
- 7144Population health27 apart — Colorado 71, Texas 44
- 6171Openness10 apart — Colorado 61, Texas 71
- 4957Productive base8 apart — Colorado 49, Texas 57
- 92100Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, Texas 100
- 8984Starting up5 apart — Colorado 89, Texas 84
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Texas
No individual income tax
No corporate income tax
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.