Bayfield · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

Name: Bayfield, CO municipal finance benchmarks
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La Plata County · Southwest · statutory town · Pop. 2,974 (2025 estimate); FY2016 per-resident figures use 2,530 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

You’re viewing FY2016. See the latest view (FY2021). Latest Census Bureau finance data for Bayfield: FY2021. Retrieved Oct 2026. Newer years are added when the Census Bureau publishes them. Why the lag?

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FY2016 in brief

Bayfield collected $2,213 per resident (including city-run utilities), 27% above the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 35% below its peers. Tax revenue per resident sits 57% above its peers, and 18% above the state median. Debt per resident runs 92% below peers.

Generated from the figures below. Every number links to its Census source.

Compared with

Nearest on population, household income and region

Revenue per resident (definition)

$2,213

35% below peers

Includes city-owned utilities

Peer median: $3,414
CO median · 224 with a published figure Median of the 224 Colorado municipalities with FY2016 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $1,746
Position: Higher than 63% of the 224 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: Not enough history for a 5-year change

How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$1,429

46% below peers

Includes city-owned utilities

Peer median: $2,653
CO median · 196 with a published figure Median of the 196 Colorado municipalities with FY2016 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $1,749
Position: Higher than 39% of the 196 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: Not enough history for a 5-year change

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$832

57% above peers

Peer median: $530
CO median · 193 with a published figure Median of the 193 Colorado municipalities with FY2016 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $705
Position: Higher than 62% of the 193 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: Not enough history for a 5-year change

Debt per resident (definition)

$161

92% below peers

Peer median: $2,053
CO median · 220 with a published figure Median of the 220 Colorado municipalities with FY2016 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $1,072
Position: Higher than 6% of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: Not enough history for a 5-year change

How Colorado compares on debt per resident

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $2,213

Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

1Metric
$2,213 Total revenue divided by population
= Total revenue ÷ population
Full definition: Revenue per resident
2Inputs
Total revenue $5.6M ÷ population 2,530 (2016 estimate)
3Census line items
- A61 Parks & recreation charges
- A80 Sewer charges
- A81 Solid waste charges
- A89 General government (other) charges
- A91 Water utility charges
- C30 State aid
- C46 State aid
- C89 State aid
- C91 State aid
- D46 Local government aid
- D50 Local government aid
- T01 Property tax
- T09 General sales tax
- T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
- T19 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
- T20 Licenses & permits
- T24 Licenses & permits
- T28 Licenses & permits
- T29 Licenses & permits
- T99 Other taxes
- U01 Special assessments
- U11 Sale of property
- U20 Interest earnings
- U30 Fines & forfeits
- U41 Royalties
- U50 Private donations
- U99 Miscellaneous
4Source file
- Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2017 - Individual Unit File
  Value for
  FY2016
  Survey file
  2017
  The 2017 Census survey covers fiscal years ending July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017, so a fiscal year ending December 31, 2016 is FY2016.
  Retrieved October 12, 2026 · View source: Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2017 - Individual Unit File (opens in a new tab)
- Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2020 - incorporated places
  Value for
  FY2016
  Source year
  2020
  Retrieved October 7, 2026 · View source: Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2020 - incorporated places (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers mean

Bayfield runs city-owned utilities, which add 14.9% of its revenue. Cities that don't run utilities will look lower on revenue and spending per resident for that reason alone. What counts as utility revenue
With about 2,530 residents, small changes in Bayfield's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.
Bayfield relies on sales tax more than most Colorado municipalities. Tourism and regional retail can raise sales tax per resident because non-residents pay it.

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Per resident, FY2016. Bars show Bayfield; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is General government: $236 per resident, 61% below the peer median. On the revenue side, other revenue is 69% below peers.

Money in

Revenue

$2,213

per resident35% below peers

Money in: Bayfield revenue per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
Category	Per resident	Peer median	vs peers	Share of revenue
	$660	$418	58% above peerspeers $418	30%

General sales tax $660 · peers $418 General sales and use tax. Census line items T09 General sales tax
	$538	$243	2.2× peerspeers $243	24%

Sewer charges $444 · peers $0 Solid waste charges $51 · peers $89 Parks & recreation charges $32 · peers $0 General government (other) charges $10 · peers $2 Charges for services such as sewer, trash, recreation, parking and airports. Census line items A61 Parks & recreation charges A80 Sewer charges A81 Solid waste charges A89 General government (other) charges
	$374	$413	10% below peerspeers $413	17%

State aid $345 · peers $122 Local government aid $29 · peers $112 Grants and shared revenue from federal, state and local governments. Census line items C30 State aid C46 State aid C89 State aid C91 State aid D46 Local government aid D50 Local government aid
	$329	$500	34% below peerspeers $500	15%

Water utility charges $329 · peers $349 Revenue of city-owned water, electric, gas and transit systems. Census line items A91 Water utility charges
	$142	$451	69% below peerspeers $451	6%

Special assessments $60 · peers $0 Royalties $30 · peers $0 Miscellaneous $23 · peers $230 Interest earnings $13 · peers $53 Fines & forfeits $11 · peers $7 Private donations $4 · peers $0 Sale of property $0 · peers $0 Interest earnings, fines, rents, special assessments, donations and sales of property. Census line items U01 Special assessments U11 Sale of property U20 Interest earnings U30 Fines & forfeits U41 Royalties U50 Private donations U99 Miscellaneous
	$142	$82	72% above peerspeers $82	6%

Property tax $142 · peers $82 Property tax levied by the municipality. Census line items T01 Property tax
	$30	$38	19% below peerspeers $38	1%

Licenses & permits $11 · peers $13 Other taxes $11 · peers $0 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.) $8 · peers $28 Lodging, utility, tobacco and other selective sales taxes, licenses and permits, and other taxes. Census line items T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.) T19 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.) T20 Licenses & permits T24 Licenses & permits T28 Licenses & permits T29 Licenses & permits T99 Other taxes

Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 224 reporting

Money out

Spending

$1,429

per resident46% below peers

Money out: Bayfield spending per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
Category	Per resident	Peer median	vs peers	Share of spending
	$421	$676	38% below peerspeers $676	29%

Sewer $220 · peers $95 Water utility $151 · peers $499 Solid waste $50 · peers $29 Water, sewer, solid waste, electric and gas utilities, and natural resources. Census line items E80 Sewer E81 Solid waste E91 Water utility
	$340	$433	22% below peerspeers $433	24%

Police $321 · peers $433 Protective inspection & regulation $17 · peers $0 Corrections (other) $2 · peers $0 Police, fire protection, inspection and corrections. Census line items E62 Police E66 Protective inspection & regulation M05 Corrections (other) M62 Police
	$297	$271	10% above peerspeers $271	21%

Streets & highways $294 · peers $271 incl. $26 construction Transit $3 · peers $0 incl. $26 construction Streets and highways, transit, parking and airports. Census line items E44 Streets & highways E94 Transit F44 Streets & highways
	$236	$602	61% below peerspeers $602	16%

Central staff services $155 · peers $219 General public buildings $33 · peers $186 General government (other) $26 · peers $0 Financial administration $18 · peers $159 Judicial & legal $3 · peers $11 Administration, finance, legal and courts, public buildings and other general government. Census line items E23 Financial administration E25 Judicial & legal E29 Central staff services E31 General public buildings M25 Judicial & legal M89 General government (other)
	$126	$219	42% below peerspeers $219	9%

Parks & recreation $126 · peers $77 Parks and recreation, libraries, housing and community development. Census line items E61 Parks & recreation M61 Parks & recreation
	$10	$19	45% below peerspeers $19	1%

Interest on debt $10 · peers $19 Interest paid on the municipality's debt. Census line items I89 Interest on debt

Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 196 reporting

Bayfield and its peers

The five Colorado municipalities nearest on population, median household income and region. Budget size isn’t a matching factor, so peers aren’t chosen on the figures being compared. Per resident, FY2016. How peers are chosen

Open in Compare

Bayfield compared with its peer municipalities, FY2016, per resident
Municipality	Revenue	Expenditures	Tax revenue	Sales tax	Debt
BayfieldUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 14.9% of total revenue in FY2016. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.	$2,213	$1,429	$832	$660	$161
TellurideUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 5.4% of total revenue in FY2016. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.Regional hub: Sales tax per resident is 3.7× the Colorado median.	$10,329	$10,695	$6,523	$2,074	$16,610
Snowmass VillageRegional hub: Sales tax per resident is 7.5× the Colorado median.	$11,120	$9,763	Withheld Snowmass Village · Tax revenue per resident · FY2016 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 6.6x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	$4,175	$3,312
MeekerUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 21.8% of total revenue in FY2016. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.	$1,262	$1,526	$522	$422	Not reported for this year
RangelyUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 23.8% of total revenue in FY2016. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.	$3,414	$2,653	$537	$413	$795
SiltUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 45.7% of total revenue in FY2016. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.	$1,095	$1,313	$408	$305	$180
Peer median	$3,414	$2,653	$530	$422	$2,053

Utilities marks a municipality whose revenue and spending include city-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit), which raises its per-resident totals.

Regional hub marks a municipality whose sales tax per resident is at least 1.5× the Colorado median: a shopping or visitor hub where people who live elsewhere pay much of the sales tax.

Trends

Every available fiscal year. Lines break where a year is missing or withheld; nothing is interpolated.

This city
Peer median
Withheld (shown on the axis, no value)
Colorado median (Census of Governments years only)

Revenue per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2021. Peers are matched each year, so the peer median can step when the group changes.

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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$2,213	$3,414	$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021	$1,800	$5,150	$2,476 (227 reporting)

Expenditures per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

FY2021 withheld: Expenditures per resident is 24% of the peer median

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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$1,429	$2,653	$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021	Withheld (Expenditures per resident is 24% of the peer median)	Benchmark unavailable	$2,208 (220 reporting)

Tax revenue per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2021. Peers are matched each year, so the peer median can step when the group changes.

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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$832	$530	$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021	$650	$5,185	$1,072 (201 reporting)

Debt per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$161	$2,053	$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021	—	—	—

Questions about Bayfield’s finances

How much revenue does Bayfield collect per resident?: Bayfield collected $2,213 per resident in FY2016, 27% above the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Bayfield's spending per resident compare with similar cities?: Bayfield spent $1,429 per resident in FY2016, 46% below the median of its peers: Telluride, Snowmass Village, Meeker, Rangely and Silt. See the figure
How much debt does Bayfield have per resident?: Bayfield carried $161 of debt per resident in FY2016, 92% below its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Bayfield compared with?: Bayfield is compared with Telluride, Snowmass Village, Meeker, Rangely and Silt: the Colorado municipalities nearest to it on population, median household income and region. Budget size isn't used, so peers aren't chosen on the figures being compared. See the peer table
Where do these numbers come from?: From the U.S. Census Bureau's Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances, as each government reported its own fiscal year, divided by Census population estimates. Figures that fail quality checks are withheld rather than shown. Sources and methodology

Community context

American Community Survey 5-year estimates and Census population estimates. Where the selected year isn’t available, the nearest earlier year is shown and labeled.

Population growth (5-yr): +1.6%/yr; 2016 estimate
Median household income: Not reported for this year
Poverty rate: Not reported for this year
Median home value: Not reported for this year
Housing vacancy rate: Not reported for this year

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Also in Southwest

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Mancos$2,703 · FY2021
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Ignacio$4,995 · FY2022
Silverton$5,664 · FY2021
Dove Creek
Rico$1,918 · FY2021
Cortez$3,373 · FY2023

Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2017 - Individual Unit File · 2017 survey file
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 12, 2026View source: Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2017 - Individual Unit File (opens in a new tab)
Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2020 - incorporated places · 2020
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 7, 2026View source: Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2020 - incorporated places (opens in a new tab)

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Bayfield · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

FY2016 in brief

FY2016 headline figures

Revenue per resident (definition)

Expenditures per resident (definition)

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

Debt per resident (definition)

How this number was calculated

What the numbers mean

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Money in

Money out

Bayfield and its peers

Trends

Questions about Bayfield’s finances

Community context

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Also in Southwest

Sources

General government is Bayfield’s largest difference from its peers (61% below the peer median in FY2016). See how that line moves month to month in your own budget-vs-actual.