Comparison
Idaho vs Oregon
They differ most on openness — Oregon leads by 67 points. Whether the state publishes in a form a machine can read: an open-data portal that answers; incentive, permit and finance records as data; and newsroom feeds.
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 — Idaho ranks between 32 and 44 and Oregon between 30 and 48. Oregon is published ahead of Idaho at 39 against 40, but 9,333 of those 20,000 weightings — 46.7% — put Idaho 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
- 067Openness67 apart — Idaho 0, Oregon 67
- 676Labour market61 apart — Idaho 67, Oregon 6
- 2361Prosperity38 apart — Idaho 23, Oregon 61
- 6130Housing permits and prices31 apart — Idaho 61, Oregon 30
- 5631Starting up25 apart — Idaho 56, Oregon 31
- 2845Productive base17 apart — Idaho 28, Oregon 45
- 5151Population healthlevel — Idaho 51, Oregon 51
- 9292Fiscal standinglevel — Idaho 92, Oregon 92
Tax structure
Idaho
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Oregon
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.