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Bonanza · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

Saguache County · San Luis Valley · statutory town · Pop. 20 (2024 estimate); FY2016 per-resident figures use 18 · Census finance data FY2016

Latest Census Bureau finance data for Bonanza: FY2016. Retrieved Oct 2026. Newer years are added when the Census Bureau publishes them. Why the lag?

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FY2016 in brief

Bonanza collected $3,833 per resident (including city-run utilities), 2.2× the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. Tax revenue per resident sits 2.2× the state median. Debt per resident runs 43% below the state median.

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

FY2016 headline figures

Revenue per resident (definition)

$3,833
2.2× CO median
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 224 with a published figure
$1,746
Position
Higher than 88% 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)

$3,833
2.2× CO median
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 196 with a published figure
$1,749
Position
Higher than 86% of the 196 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$1,556
2.2× CO median
Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 193 with a published figure
$705
Position
Higher than 85% of the 193 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Debt per resident (definition)

$611
43% below CO median
Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 34% 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 · $3,833
Includes Census estimates for 100% of revenue

  1. 1Metric

    $3,833 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $69K ÷ population 18 (2016 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A61 Parks & recreation charges
    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A81 Solid waste charges
    • A89 General government (other) charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • C46 State aid
    • C91 State aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T19 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T29 Licenses & permits
    • U40 Rents

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Bonanza runs city-owned utilities, which add 8.7% 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 18 residents, small changes in Bonanza's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.
  • Part of Bonanza's FY2016 revenue is a Census Bureau estimate, not a reported figure. How estimates are handled
  • Too few comparable municipalities reported this year to form a peer group, so comparisons use the Colorado median.

Where the money comes from and where it goes

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

Money in

Revenue

$3,833
per resident
Money in: Bonanza revenue per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
Peer median unavailable$1,722No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$778No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$500No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$333No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$278No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$167No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$56No peer comparison
Colorado median of 224 reporting

Money out

Spending

$3,833
per resident
Money out: Bonanza spending per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
Peer median unavailable$1,222No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$1,111No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$667No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$500No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$278No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$56No peer comparison
Colorado median of 196 reporting

Bonanza 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

Benchmark unavailable: there is no peer group for FY2016.

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
FY2016 $3,833.$0$1.9K$3.8K’16Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $3,833

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$3,833Benchmark unavailable$1,746 (224 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $3,833.$0$1.9K$3.8K’16Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $3,833

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$3,833Benchmark unavailable$1,749 (196 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $1,556.$0$777.8$1.6K’16Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,556

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$1,556Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $611.$0$536.2$1.1K’16Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $611

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$611Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (220 reporting)

Questions about Bonanza’s finances

How much revenue does Bonanza collect per resident?
Bonanza collected $3,833 per resident in FY2016, 2.2× the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Bonanza's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Bonanza spent $3,833 per resident in FY2016, 2.2× the Colorado median. There was no peer group to compare with that year. See the figure
How much debt does Bonanza have per resident?
Bonanza carried $611 of debt per resident in FY2016, 43% below the Colorado median. See the figure
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)
+1.1%/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 San Luis Valley

Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Bonanza, CO municipal finance benchmarks

Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab). Please credit “Source: Orivian Municipal Index, orivian.ai/benchmarks”. See the data use terms.

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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