Comparison
Colorado vs Oregon
They differ most on labour market — Colorado leads by 62 points. How tight the market is, and which way it moved last month.
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 Oregon between 30 and 48. Colorado finishes above Oregon 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
- 686Labour market62 apart — Colorado 68, Oregon 6
- 8931Starting up58 apart — Colorado 89, Oregon 31
- 8961Prosperity28 apart — Colorado 89, Oregon 61
- 7151Population health20 apart — Colorado 71, Oregon 51
- 4830Housing permits and prices18 apart — Colorado 48, Oregon 30
- 6167Openness6 apart — Colorado 61, Oregon 67
- 4945Productive base4 apart — Colorado 49, Oregon 45
- 9292Fiscal standinglevel — Colorado 92, Oregon 92
Tax structure
Colorado
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Oregon
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.