Comparison
Colorado vs Virginia
They differ most on starting up — Colorado leads by 52 points. How many businesses get founded here, and what the state takes in tax.
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 Virginia between 6 and 18. Colorado finishes above Virginia 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
- 8937Starting up52 apart — Colorado 89, Virginia 37
- 6830Labour market38 apart — Colorado 68, Virginia 30
- 6184Openness23 apart — Colorado 61, Virginia 84
- 7163Population health8 apart — Colorado 71, Virginia 63
- 92100Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, Virginia 100
- 8983Prosperity6 apart — Colorado 89, Virginia 83
- 4946Productive base3 apart — Colorado 49, Virginia 46
- 4847Housing permits and prices1 apart — Colorado 48, Virginia 47
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Virginia
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.