Comparison
New York vs Wisconsin
They differ most on population health — New York leads by 49 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 — New York ranks between 12 and 36 and Wisconsin between 14 and 28. New York is published ahead of Wisconsin at 19 against 19, but 10,157 of those 20,000 weightings — 50.8% — put Wisconsin 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
- 9041Population health49 apart — New York 90, Wisconsin 41
- 1865Labour market47 apart — New York 18, Wisconsin 65
- 1360Housing permits and prices47 apart — New York 13, Wisconsin 60
- 8542Prosperity43 apart — New York 85, Wisconsin 42
- 6351Openness12 apart — New York 63, Wisconsin 51
- 5663Productive base7 apart — New York 56, Wisconsin 63
- 3337Starting up4 apart — New York 33, Wisconsin 37
- 9292Fiscal standinglevel — New York 92, Wisconsin 92
Tax structure
New York
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Wisconsin
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.