Comparison
Arkansas vs Colorado
They differ most on prosperity — Colorado leads by 82 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 — Arkansas ranks between 45 and 49 and Colorado between 1 and 3. Colorado finishes above Arkansas 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
- 789Prosperity82 apart — Arkansas 7, Colorado 89
- 061Openness61 apart — Arkansas 0, Colorado 61
- 1171Population health60 apart — Arkansas 11, Colorado 71
- 5889Starting up31 apart — Arkansas 58, Colorado 89
- 3768Labour market31 apart — Arkansas 37, Colorado 68
- 7248Housing permits and prices24 apart — Arkansas 72, Colorado 48
- 4649Productive base3 apart — Arkansas 46, Colorado 49
- 9292Fiscal standinglevel — Arkansas 92, Colorado 92
Tax structure
Arkansas
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Colorado
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.