Comparison
Colorado vs Delaware
They differ most on labour market — Colorado leads by 56 points. How tight the market is, and which way it moved last month.
No defensible weighting reverses this ordering
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 — Colorado ranks between 1 and 3 and Delaware between 13 and 33. Colorado finishes above Delaware in every one of those 20,000 weightings — not one reverses it — so on this pair the ordering is a result rather than an artefact of the equal weighting.
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
- 6812Labour market56 apart — Colorado 68, Delaware 12
- 8948Prosperity41 apart — Colorado 89, Delaware 48
- 8957Starting up32 apart — Colorado 89, Delaware 57
- 7152Population health19 apart — Colorado 71, Delaware 52
- 4859Housing permits and prices11 apart — Colorado 48, Delaware 59
- 4959Productive base10 apart — Colorado 49, Delaware 59
- 92100Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, Delaware 100
- 6159Openness2 apart — Colorado 61, Delaware 59
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Delaware
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.