Comparison
Idaho vs Maine
They differ most on starting up — Idaho leads by 36 points. How many businesses get founded here, and what the state takes in tax.
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 — Idaho ranks between 32 and 44 and Maine between 34 and 48. Idaho is published ahead of Maine at 40 against 40, but 7,830 of those 20,000 weightings — 39.1% — put Maine 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
- 5620Starting up36 apart — Idaho 56, Maine 20
- 2354Prosperity31 apart — Idaho 23, Maine 54
- 6149Housing permits and prices12 apart — Idaho 61, Maine 49
- 5160Population health9 apart — Idaho 51, Maine 60
- 9284Fiscal standing8 apart — Idaho 92, Maine 84
- 2833Productive base5 apart — Idaho 28, Maine 33
- 6772Labour market5 apart — Idaho 67, Maine 72
- 00Opennesslevel — Idaho 0, Maine 0
Tax structure
Idaho
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Maine
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.