Comparison
Colorado vs Missouri
They differ most on prosperity — Colorado leads by 57 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 Missouri between 5 and 24. Colorado finishes above Missouri 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
- 8932Prosperity57 apart — Colorado 89, Missouri 32
- 7130Population health41 apart — Colorado 71, Missouri 30
- 6876Labour market8 apart — Colorado 68, Missouri 76
- 92100Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, Missouri 100
- 8987Starting up2 apart — Colorado 89, Missouri 87
- 4948Productive base1 apart — Colorado 49, Missouri 48
- 4849Housing permits and prices1 apart — Colorado 48, Missouri 49
- 6160Openness1 apart — Colorado 61, Missouri 60
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Missouri
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.