Comparison
Colorado vs New York
They differ most on starting up — Colorado leads by 56 points. How many businesses get founded here, and what the state takes in tax.
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 New York between 12 and 36. Colorado finishes above New York 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
- 8933Starting up56 apart — Colorado 89, New York 33
- 6818Labour market50 apart — Colorado 68, New York 18
- 4813Housing permits and prices35 apart — Colorado 48, New York 13
- 7190Population health19 apart — Colorado 71, New York 90
- 4956Productive base7 apart — Colorado 49, New York 56
- 8985Prosperity4 apart — Colorado 89, New York 85
- 6163Openness2 apart — Colorado 61, New York 63
- 9292Fiscal standinglevel — Colorado 92, New York 92
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
New York
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.