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Colorado

#1of 5171B

Below: Utah (68).

Pillar by pillar

Starting up

How many businesses get founded here, and what the state takes in tax.

89+34 vs median

  1. Business applications per 1,000 residents2.996 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau
  2. State tax collected per resident$3,40182 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections

Population health

One comparable public-health read, asked the same way of every state.

71+21 vs median

  1. Adult obesity, 202425.0%100 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
  2. Firearm-injury deaths per 100,000 (crude)16.442 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCDC NCIPC, CDC NCIPC 2024

Productive base

Output per worker and how much of the job base is manufacturing.

49-2 vs median

  1. Output per worker$183,23178 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
  2. Manufacturing share of jobs4.9%19 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Labour market

How tight the market is, and which way it moved last month.

68+19 vs median

  1. Unemployment rate3.9%50 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
  2. Employment change, latest month+0.20%86 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Prosperity

What the average person in the state actually earns.

89+37 vs median

  1. Per-capita personal income$86,18182 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
  2. Adults 25+ with a bachelor's degree or higher47.8%96 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 1-year

Housing permits and prices

Housing units authorised per 1,000 workers, and what housing costs. It counts permits issued, not buildings finished, and says nothing about industrial or infrastructure approvals.

48-10 vs median

  1. Housing units authorised per 1,000 workers0.968 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau
  2. House price index (FHFA)853.228 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsFederal Housing Finance Agency

Fiscal standing

How Moody’s rates the state as a borrower: on its general-obligation bonds or, where it has none, as an issuer.

92+0 vs median

  1. Credit ratingAa1 · Stable92 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsMoody's, indicative 2025

Openness

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.

61+10 vs median

  1. Open-data portal answers an APIYes · data.colorado.gov100 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCEFA probe, 2026-09
  2. Incentive, permit & finance datasets982 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCEFA discovery, 2026-09
  3. Government or agency newsroom feeds10 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCEFA probe, 2026-09

Industrial project records

Companies in Colorado named in a research file of 60 curated records, compiled October 1, 2026. Each carries the status that file gives it. None is an Applied America project. Most are foreign-owned; U.S. operators appear where the research names them as counterparties. It is not a census, and amounts are announcement scopes that are never added together.

1 record · 1 announced investment

  • VestasAnnounced investment

    Denmark · Wind energy equipment

    Colorado, Oregon, Texas, Massachusetts — Relationship prospect; new investment intent not established

    Existing U.S. manufacturing and supplier procurement network

    Announced scope: Not applicable

    undated in the sourceSource

Colorado — State Development Index — Applied America