Comparison
Colorado vs Minnesota
They differ most on starting up — Colorado leads by 69 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 Minnesota between 12 and 37. Colorado finishes above Minnesota 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
- 8920Starting up69 apart — Colorado 89, Minnesota 20
- 610Openness61 apart — Colorado 61, Minnesota 0
- 6836Labour market32 apart — Colorado 68, Minnesota 36
- 4969Productive base20 apart — Colorado 49, Minnesota 69
- 4863Housing permits and prices15 apart — Colorado 48, Minnesota 63
- 8975Prosperity14 apart — Colorado 89, Minnesota 75
- 92100Fiscal standing8 apart — Colorado 92, Minnesota 100
- 7177Population health6 apart — Colorado 71, Minnesota 77
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Minnesota
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.