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Bethune · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Kit Carson County · Eastern Plains · statutory town · Pop. 190 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 179 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

Latest Census Bureau finance data for Bethune: FY2021. Retrieved Oct 2026. Newer years are added when the Census Bureau publishes them. Why the lag?

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FY2021 in brief

Bethune collected $1,168 per resident (including city-run utilities), 53% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 29% below its peers. Debt per resident runs 10% below peers.

  • Tax revenue per resident withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 16% of the peer median

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

Compared with

Nearest on population, household income and region

FY2021 headline figures

Revenue per resident (definition)

$1,168
29% below peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$1,635
CO median · 227 with a published figure
$2,476
Position
Higher than 11% of the 227 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$2,208
Position
Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars
Withheld with this year's value

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 201 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars
Withheld with this year's value

Debt per resident (definition)

$1,011
10% below peers
Peer median
$1,118
CO median · 199 with a published figure
$1,411
Position
Higher than 40% of the 199 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
−5.9%/yr
How Colorado compares on debt per resident

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $1,168
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $1,168 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $209K ÷ population 179 (2021 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • C89 State aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T24 Licenses & permits

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Bethune runs city-owned utilities, which add 25.4% 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 179 residents, small changes in Bethune's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Per resident, FY2021. Bars show Bethune; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

On the revenue side, the biggest difference from peers is Intergovernmental: $732 per resident, 4.9× the peer median.

Money in

Revenue

$1,168
per resident29% below peers
Money in: Bethune revenue per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$7324.9×peers $149
$29628% belowpeers $412
$10174% belowpeers $380
None reported · peers $56$0None reported
Withheldpeers $103
Withheldpeers $64
Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

Categories are withheld with the total until it is verified against Bethune’s audited financial report.

Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Bethune 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, FY2021. How peers are chosen

Open in Compare
Bethune compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
BethuneUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 25.4% of total revenue in FY2021. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.$1,168Not reported for this year$1,011
SeibertUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 22.3% of total revenue in FY2021. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.$2,087$1,808$622$372
GenoaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 37.0% of total revenue in FY2021. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.$1,109$1,244$244Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
ArribaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 35.0% of total revenue in FY2021. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.$1,182$1,291$177Not reported for this year$1,493
CrowleyUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 13.1% of total revenue in FY2021. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.$2,374$1,854$53Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
Peer median$1,635Benchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailableNot reported for this year$1,118

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

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
FY2021 $1,168. 1 year withheld.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $1,635Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $1,168FY2016: withheld — Revenue per resident is 8% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Revenue per resident is 8% of the peer median
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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Revenue per resident is 8% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$1,168$1,635$2,476 (227 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
2 years withheld.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 4% of the peer medianFY2021: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 16% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 4% of the peer median
  • FY2021 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 16% of the peer median
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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 4% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 16% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $1,368 to FY2021 $1,011.$0$743.5$1.5K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $1,487Peer median FY2021: $1,118Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,368FY2021: $1,011

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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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$1,368$1,487$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021$1,011$1,118$1,411 (199 reporting)

Questions about Bethune’s finances

How much revenue does Bethune collect per resident?
Bethune collected $1,168 per resident in FY2021, 53% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How much debt does Bethune have per resident?
Bethune carried $1,011 of debt per resident in FY2021, 10% below its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Bethune compared with?
Bethune is compared with Seibert, Genoa, Arriba and Crowley: 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)
−5.2%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$34.6K
2021 estimate
Poverty rate
11.7%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$83.5K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
6.0%
2021 estimate

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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Bethune, CO municipal finance benchmarks

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Notes: dollars are nominal (not inflation-adjusted). Colorado medians cover the municipalities reporting that year. Peers: nearest on population, income and region. Definitions: orivian.ai/benchmarks/methodology.Retrieved October 12, 2026 from orivian.ai/benchmarks.

Every figure on this page is read from the published index; nothing is recalculated for display. Read the methodology

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