Comparison
Montana vs Ohio
They differ most on productive base — Ohio leads by 58 points. Output per worker and how much of the job base is manufacturing.
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 — Montana ranks between 20 and 42 and Ohio between 20 and 40. Montana is published ahead of Ohio at 32 against 32, but 10,534 of those 20,000 weightings — 52.7% — put Ohio 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
- 1169Productive base58 apart — Montana 11, Ohio 69
- 5325Prosperity28 apart — Montana 53, Ohio 25
- 7059Starting up11 apart — Montana 70, Ohio 59
- 4636Population health10 apart — Montana 46, Ohio 36
- 7767Labour market10 apart — Montana 77, Ohio 67
- 5562Housing permits and prices7 apart — Montana 55, Ohio 62
- 9292Fiscal standinglevel — Montana 92, Ohio 92
- 00Opennesslevel — Montana 0, Ohio 0
Tax structure
Montana
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.