Comparison
Colorado vs Connecticut
They differ most on starting up — Colorado leads by 68 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 Connecticut between 6 and 28. Colorado finishes above Connecticut 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
- 8921Starting up68 apart — Colorado 89, Connecticut 21
- 6840Labour market28 apart — Colorado 68, Connecticut 40
- 4976Productive base27 apart — Colorado 49, Connecticut 76
- 4821Housing permits and prices27 apart — Colorado 48, Connecticut 21
- 9276Fiscal standing16 apart — Colorado 92, Connecticut 76
- 7181Population health10 apart — Colorado 71, Connecticut 81
- 8992Prosperity3 apart — Colorado 89, Connecticut 92
- 6164Openness3 apart — Colorado 61, Connecticut 64
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Connecticut
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.