Comparison
Connecticut vs Missouri
They differ most on starting up — Missouri leads by 66 points. How many businesses get founded here, and what the state takes in tax.
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 — Connecticut ranks between 6 and 28 and Missouri between 5 and 24. Missouri is published ahead of Connecticut at 11 against 12, but 8,177 of those 20,000 weightings — 40.9% — put Connecticut 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
- 2187Starting up66 apart — Connecticut 21, Missouri 87
- 9232Prosperity60 apart — Connecticut 92, Missouri 32
- 8130Population health51 apart — Connecticut 81, Missouri 30
- 4076Labour market36 apart — Connecticut 40, Missouri 76
- 7648Productive base28 apart — Connecticut 76, Missouri 48
- 2149Housing permits and prices28 apart — Connecticut 21, Missouri 49
- 76100Fiscal standing24 apart — Connecticut 76, Missouri 100
- 6460Openness4 apart — Connecticut 64, Missouri 60
Tax structure
Connecticut
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Missouri
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.