State Development Index — comparison
Florida vs Texas
They differ most on population health — Florida leads by 25 points. One comparable public-health read, asked the same way of every state.
- 6944Population health25 apart — Florida 69, Texas 44
- 3457Productive base23 apart — Florida 34, Texas 57
- 5981Things get built22 apart — Florida 59, Texas 81
- 9584Starting up11 apart — Florida 95, Texas 84
- 5848Prosperity10 apart — Florida 58, Texas 48
- 4037Labour market3 apart — Florida 40, Texas 37
- 100100Fiscal standinglevel — Florida 100, Texas 100
- 7171Opennesslevel — Florida 71, Texas 71
Tax structure
Florida
No individual income tax
Corporate income tax levied
Texas
No individual income tax
No corporate income tax
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.