State Development Index — comparison

Iowa vs South Dakota

They differ most on openness Iowa leads by 42 points. Whether you can get an answer out of the state without telephoning it.

  1. 6018Openness42 apart — Iowa 60, South Dakota 18
  2. 2657Prosperity31 apart — Iowa 26, South Dakota 57
  3. 3558Starting up23 apart — Iowa 35, South Dakota 58
  4. 4770Labour market23 apart — Iowa 47, South Dakota 70
  5. 5028Population health22 apart — Iowa 50, South Dakota 28
  6. 6863Productive base5 apart — Iowa 68, South Dakota 63
  7. 8177Things get built4 apart — Iowa 81, South Dakota 77
  8. 100100Fiscal standinglevel — Iowa 100, South Dakota 100

Tax structure

Iowa

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.

Iowa vs South Dakota — State Development Index — Applied America