Comparison
Colorado vs Nevada
They differ most on openness — Colorado leads by 61 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.
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 Nevada between 41 and 46. Colorado finishes above Nevada 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
- 610Openness61 apart — Colorado 61, Nevada 0
- 8931Prosperity58 apart — Colorado 89, Nevada 31
- 7138Population health33 apart — Colorado 71, Nevada 38
- 8959Starting up30 apart — Colorado 89, Nevada 59
- 6849Labour market19 apart — Colorado 68, Nevada 49
- 4935Productive base14 apart — Colorado 49, Nevada 35
- 4852Housing permits and prices4 apart — Colorado 48, Nevada 52
- 9292Fiscal standinglevel — Colorado 92, Nevada 92
Tax structure
Colorado
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.