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Bow Mar · FY2022 municipal finance benchmarks

Arapahoe, Jefferson counties · Denver Metro · statutory town · Pop. 832 (2025 estimate); FY2022 per-resident figures use 833 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2018, FY2019, FY2020, FY2021, FY2022

Latest Census Bureau finance data for Bow Mar: FY2022. Retrieved Oct 2026. Newer years are added when the Census Bureau publishes them. Why the lag?

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FY2022 in brief

Bow Mar collected $1,771 per resident, 42% below the median of the 72 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 62% below its peers. Tax revenue per resident sits 36% below its peers, and 21% below the state median.

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

Compared with

Nearest on population, household income and region

FY2022 headline figures

Revenue per resident (definition)

$1,771
62% below peers
Peer median
$4,690
CO median · 72 with a published figure
$3,031
Position
Higher than 16% of the 72 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$1,599
63% below peers
Peer median
$4,328
CO median · 71 with a published figure
$3,025
Position
Higher than 19% of the 71 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$1,291
36% below peers
Peer median
$2,025
CO median · 71 with a published figure
$1,631
Position
Higher than 31% of the 71 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $1,771
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $1,771 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $1.5M ÷ population 833 (2022 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • C89 State aid
    • D89 Local government aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • U20 Interest earnings
    • U99 Miscellaneous

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • With about 833 residents, small changes in Bow Mar's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Per resident, FY2022. Bars show Bow Mar; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is Utilities & environment: none reported, against a peer median of $1,396 per resident. On the revenue side, Bow Mar reports no sales tax; peers collect $2,069 per resident.

Money in

Revenue

$1,771
per resident62% below peers
Money in: Bow Mar revenue per resident by category, FY2022, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$1,2915.5×peers $236
$30926% abovepeers $245
$17245% belowpeers $314
None reported · peers $2,069$0None reported
None reported · peers $808$0None reported
None reported · peers $499$0None reported
None reported · peers $113$0None reported
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 72 reporting

Money out

Spending

$1,599
per resident63% below peers
Money out: Bow Mar spending per resident by category, FY2022, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$80766% abovepeers $487
$42542% belowpeers $735
$36758% belowpeers $871
None reported · peers $1,396$0None reported
None reported · peers $130$0None reported
None reported · peers $7$0None reported
None reported · peers $1$0None reported
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 71 reporting

Bow Mar 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, FY2022. How peers are chosen

Open in Compare
Bow Mar compared with its peer municipalities, FY2022, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
Bow Mar$1,771$1,599$1,291Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
Silver Cliff$1,161$717$743$478$123
La SalleUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 18.7% of total revenue in FY2022. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.$2,152$1,603$1,092Not reported for this year
BennettUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 10.6% of total revenue in FY2022. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.$4,690$4,774$2,025$1,657$7,189
IgnacioUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 21.2% of total revenue in FY2022. 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 2.1× the Colorado median.$4,995$4,328$2,557$2,481Not reported for this year
DillonUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 4.9% of total revenue in FY2022. 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 8.3× the Colorado median.$22,632$23,135$12,779$9,626$15,707
Peer median$4,690$4,328$2,025Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year

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
FY2016 $1,153 to FY2022 $1,771.$0$2.3K$4.7K’16’18’19’20’21’22Peer median FY2016: $1,142Peer median FY2018: $2,592Peer median FY2019: $2,881Peer median FY2020: $3,639Peer median FY2021: $2,215Peer median FY2022: $4,690Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,153FY2018: $1,074FY2019: $1,150FY2020: $987FY2021: $1,399FY2022: $1,771

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2018, FY2021, FY2022. 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
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$1,153$1,142$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2018$1,074$2,592$2,529 (75 reporting, sample year)
FY2019$1,150$2,881$2,694 (73 reporting, sample year)
FY2020$987$3,639$2,739 (76 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$1,399$2,215$2,476 (227 reporting)
FY2022$1,771$4,690$3,031 (72 reporting, sample year)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $822 to FY2022 $1,599.$0$2.2K$4.3K’16’18’19’20’21’22Peer median FY2016: $1,534Peer median FY2018: $2,541Peer median FY2019: $2,771Peer median FY2020: $3,457Peer median FY2021: $1,247Peer median FY2022: $4,328Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $822FY2018: $872FY2019: $1,100FY2020: $1,055FY2021: $1,303FY2022: $1,599. Excludes equipment purchases and payments to other governments, which Census stopped reporting after FY2021.

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Census definition change: Excludes equipment purchases and payments to other governments, which Census stopped reporting after FY2021.

Peer group changed in FY2018, FY2021, FY2022, the same year as the census definition change. Peers are matched each year, so the peer median can step when the group changes.

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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$822$1,534$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2018$872$2,541$2,387 (74 reporting, sample year)
FY2019$1,100$2,771$2,759 (71 reporting, sample year)
FY2020$1,055$3,457$2,485 (74 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$1,303$1,247$2,208 (220 reporting)
FY2022$1,599$4,328$3,025 (71 reporting, sample year)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $1,046 to FY2022 $1,291.$0$1K$2K’16’18’19’20’21’22Peer median FY2016: $434Peer median FY2018: $1,568Peer median FY2019: $1,441Peer median FY2020: $1,878Peer median FY2021: $1,971Peer median FY2022: $2,025Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,046FY2018: $731FY2019: $1,056FY2020: $928FY2021: $1,102FY2022: $1,291

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2018, FY2020, FY2021, FY2022. 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
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$1,046$434$705 (193 reporting)
FY2018$731$1,568$1,173 (70 reporting, sample year)
FY2019$1,056$1,441$1,187 (71 reporting, sample year)
FY2020$928$1,878$1,238 (72 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$1,102$1,971$1,072 (201 reporting)
FY2022$1,291$2,025$1,631 (71 reporting, sample year)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $66.$0$536.2$1.1K’16’18’19’20’21’22Peer median FY2016: $614Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $66

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$66$614$1,072 (220 reporting)
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FY2019———
FY2020———
FY2021———
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Questions about Bow Mar’s finances

How much revenue does Bow Mar collect per resident?
Bow Mar collected $1,771 per resident in FY2022, 42% below the median of the 72 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Bow Mar's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Bow Mar spent $1,599 per resident in FY2022, 63% below the median of its peers: Silver Cliff, La Salle, Bennett, Ignacio and Dillon. See the figure
Which cities is Bow Mar compared with?
Bow Mar is compared with Silver Cliff, La Salle, Bennett, Ignacio and Dillon: 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)
−2.7%/yr
2022 estimate
Median household income
$215.7K
2022 estimate
Poverty rate
3.9%
2022 estimate
Median home value
$1.6M
2022 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
1.9%
2022 estimate

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Sources

Dataset: Bow Mar, 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.

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