Comparison
Alabama vs Nevada
They differ most on population health — Nevada leads by 31 points. One comparable public-health read, asked the same way of every state.
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 — Alabama ranks between 37 and 47 and Nevada between 41 and 46. Nevada is published ahead of Alabama at 44 against 46, but 9,262 of those 20,000 weightings — 46.3% — put Alabama 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
- 738Population health31 apart — Alabama 7, Nevada 38
- 270Openness27 apart — Alabama 27, Nevada 0
- 931Prosperity22 apart — Alabama 9, Nevada 31
- 6352Housing permits and prices11 apart — Alabama 63, Nevada 52
- 6259Starting up3 apart — Alabama 62, Nevada 59
- 4949Labour marketlevel — Alabama 49, Nevada 49
- 9292Fiscal standinglevel — Alabama 92, Nevada 92
- —35Productive basenot comparable — Alabama no score, Nevada 35
Tax structure
Alabama
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Nevada
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.