Comparison
Delaware vs Hawaii
They differ most on starting up — Delaware leads by 53 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 — Delaware ranks between 13 and 33 and Hawaii between 11 and 39. Delaware is published ahead of Hawaii at 19 against 19, but 9,968 of those 20,000 weightings — 49.8% — put Hawaii 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
- 574Starting up53 apart — Delaware 57, Hawaii 4
- 1263Labour market51 apart — Delaware 12, Hawaii 63
- 5297Population health45 apart — Delaware 52, Hawaii 97
- 5921Housing permits and prices38 apart — Delaware 59, Hawaii 21
- 5935Productive base24 apart — Delaware 59, Hawaii 35
- 4867Prosperity19 apart — Delaware 48, Hawaii 67
- 10084Fiscal standing16 apart — Delaware 100, Hawaii 84
- 5975Openness16 apart — Delaware 59, Hawaii 75
Tax structure
Delaware
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Hawaii
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.