Comparison
Delaware vs New Jersey
They differ most on population health — New Jersey leads by 42 points. One comparable public-health read, asked the same way of every state.
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 — Delaware ranks between 13 and 33 and New Jersey between 9 and 36. New Jersey is published ahead of Delaware at 18 against 19, but 8,206 of those 20,000 weightings — 41.0% — put Delaware 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
- 5294Population health42 apart — Delaware 52, New Jersey 94
- 4888Prosperity40 apart — Delaware 48, New Jersey 88
- 5919Housing permits and prices40 apart — Delaware 59, New Jersey 19
- 10068Fiscal standing32 apart — Delaware 100, New Jersey 68
- 5976Openness17 apart — Delaware 59, New Jersey 76
- 5745Starting up12 apart — Delaware 57, New Jersey 45
- 5950Productive base9 apart — Delaware 59, New Jersey 50
- 1214Labour market2 apart — Delaware 12, New Jersey 14
Tax structure
Delaware
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
New Jersey
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.