Comparison
Connecticut vs Nebraska
They differ most on housing permits and prices — Nebraska leads by 58 points. Housing units authorised per 1,000 workers, and what housing costs. It counts permits issued, not buildings finished, and says nothing about industrial or infrastructure approvals.
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 Nebraska between 7 and 23. Connecticut is published ahead of Nebraska at 12 against 12, but 10,515 of those 20,000 weightings — 52.6% — put Nebraska 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
- 2179Housing permits and prices58 apart — Connecticut 21, Nebraska 79
- 6427Openness37 apart — Connecticut 64, Nebraska 27
- 9256Prosperity36 apart — Connecticut 92, Nebraska 56
- 8147Population health34 apart — Connecticut 81, Nebraska 47
- 4064Labour market24 apart — Connecticut 40, Nebraska 64
- 2139Starting up18 apart — Connecticut 21, Nebraska 39
- 7692Fiscal standing16 apart — Connecticut 76, Nebraska 92
- 7670Productive base6 apart — Connecticut 76, Nebraska 70
Tax structure
Connecticut
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Nebraska
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.