Comparison
Colorado vs Wisconsin
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 Wisconsin between 14 and 28. Colorado finishes above Wisconsin 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, Wisconsin 37
- 8942Prosperity47 apart — Colorado 89, Wisconsin 42
- 7141Population health30 apart — Colorado 71, Wisconsin 41
- 4963Productive base14 apart — Colorado 49, Wisconsin 63
- 4860Housing permits and prices12 apart — Colorado 48, Wisconsin 60
- 6151Openness10 apart — Colorado 61, Wisconsin 51
- 6865Labour market3 apart — Colorado 68, Wisconsin 65
- 9292Fiscal standinglevel — Colorado 92, Wisconsin 92
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Wisconsin
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.