Comparison
Colorado vs Ohio
They differ most on prosperity — Colorado leads by 64 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 Ohio between 20 and 40. Colorado finishes above Ohio 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
- 8925Prosperity64 apart — Colorado 89, Ohio 25
- 610Openness61 apart — Colorado 61, Ohio 0
- 7136Population health35 apart — Colorado 71, Ohio 36
- 8959Starting up30 apart — Colorado 89, Ohio 59
- 4969Productive base20 apart — Colorado 49, Ohio 69
- 4862Housing permits and prices14 apart — Colorado 48, Ohio 62
- 6867Labour market1 apart — Colorado 68, Ohio 67
- 9292Fiscal standinglevel — Colorado 92, Ohio 92
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Ohio
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.