Comparison
North Carolina vs New Hampshire
They differ most on openness — North Carolina leads by 67 points. Whether the state publishes in a form a machine can read: an open-data portal that answers; incentive, permit and finance records as data; and newsroom feeds.
This ordering turns on the weighting
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 — North Carolina ranks between 5 and 16 and New Hampshire between 3 and 23. North Carolina is published ahead of New Hampshire at 6 against 7, but 8,821 of those 20,000 weightings — 44.1% — put New Hampshire first. The ordering of these two is a property of the weighting as much as of the states. Read the pillars below instead: those are measured, and the weighting does not touch them.
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
- 670Openness67 apart — North Carolina 67, New Hampshire 0
- 7131Housing permits and prices40 apart — North Carolina 71, New Hampshire 31
- 4180Population health39 apart — North Carolina 41, New Hampshire 80
- 4984Prosperity35 apart — North Carolina 49, New Hampshire 84
- 5181Labour market30 apart — North Carolina 51, New Hampshire 81
- 10092Fiscal standing8 apart — North Carolina 100, New Hampshire 92
- 5961Productive base2 apart — North Carolina 59, New Hampshire 61
- 6465Starting up1 apart — North Carolina 64, New Hampshire 65
Tax structure
North Carolina
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
New Hampshire
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.