Comparison
Colorado vs Vermont
They differ most on starting up — Colorado leads by 79 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 — Colorado ranks between 1 and 3 and Vermont between 4 and 28. Colorado is published ahead of Vermont at 1 against 8, but 28 of those 20,000 weightings — 0.14% — put Vermont 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
- 8910Starting up79 apart — Colorado 89, Vermont 10
- 4818Housing permits and prices30 apart — Colorado 48, Vermont 18
- 6188Openness27 apart — Colorado 61, Vermont 88
- 4936Productive base13 apart — Colorado 49, Vermont 36
- 6881Labour market13 apart — Colorado 68, Vermont 81
- 7183Population health12 apart — Colorado 71, Vermont 83
- 8977Prosperity12 apart — Colorado 89, Vermont 77
- 9292Fiscal standinglevel — Colorado 92, Vermont 92
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Vermont
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.