Comparison
Oklahoma vs Oregon
They differ most on prosperity — Oregon leads by 43 points. What the average person in the state actually earns.
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 — Oklahoma ranks between 25 and 43 and Oregon between 30 and 48. Oklahoma is published ahead of Oregon at 38 against 39, but 7,782 of those 20,000 weightings — 38.9% — put Oregon 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
- 1861Prosperity43 apart — Oklahoma 18, Oregon 61
- 486Labour market42 apart — Oklahoma 48, Oregon 6
- 7230Housing permits and prices42 apart — Oklahoma 72, Oregon 30
- 7131Starting up40 apart — Oklahoma 71, Oregon 31
- 2451Population health27 apart — Oklahoma 24, Oregon 51
- 2645Productive base19 apart — Oklahoma 26, Oregon 45
- 5167Openness16 apart — Oklahoma 51, Oregon 67
- 8492Fiscal standing8 apart — Oklahoma 84, Oregon 92
Tax structure
Oklahoma
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Oregon
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.