State Development Index — comparison

Colorado vs South Dakota

They differ most on population health Colorado leads by 43 points. One comparable public-health read, asked the same way of every state.

  1. 7128Population health43 apart — Colorado 71, South Dakota 28
  2. 6118Openness43 apart — Colorado 61, South Dakota 18
  3. 8957Prosperity32 apart — Colorado 89, South Dakota 57
  4. 8958Starting up31 apart — Colorado 89, South Dakota 58
  5. 4877Things get built29 apart — Colorado 48, South Dakota 77
  6. 4963Productive base14 apart — Colorado 49, South Dakota 63
  7. 92100Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, South Dakota 100
  8. 6870Labour market2 apart — Colorado 68, South Dakota 70

Tax structure

Colorado

Individual income tax levied

Corporate income tax levied

South Dakota

No individual income tax

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.

Colorado vs South Dakota — State Development Index — Applied America