Comparison
Colorado vs New Hampshire
They differ most on openness — Colorado leads by 61 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.
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 New Hampshire between 3 and 23. Colorado finishes above New Hampshire 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
- 610Openness61 apart — Colorado 61, New Hampshire 0
- 8965Starting up24 apart — Colorado 89, New Hampshire 65
- 4831Housing permits and prices17 apart — Colorado 48, New Hampshire 31
- 6881Labour market13 apart — Colorado 68, New Hampshire 81
- 4961Productive base12 apart — Colorado 49, New Hampshire 61
- 7180Population health9 apart — Colorado 71, New Hampshire 80
- 8984Prosperity5 apart — Colorado 89, New Hampshire 84
- 9292Fiscal standinglevel — Colorado 92, New Hampshire 92
Tax structure
Colorado
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.