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Brookside · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

Fremont County · Southern Colorado · statutory town · Pop. 235 (2025 estimate); FY2016 per-resident figures use 248 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2016 in brief

Brookside collected $702 per resident (including city-run utilities), 60% below the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, in line with its peers. Tax revenue per resident sits 31% below its peers, and 82% below the state median. Debt per resident runs 55% 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

FY2016 headline figures

Revenue per resident (definition)

$702
in line with peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$735
CO median · 224 with a published figure
$1,746
Position
Higher than 9% 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)

$403
39% below peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$664
CO median · 196 with a published figure
$1,749
Position
Higher than 6% of the 196 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$125
31% below peers
Peer median
$181
CO median · 193 with a published figure
$705
Position
Higher than 11% of the 193 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Debt per resident (definition)

$480
55% below CO median
Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 29% 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 · $702
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $702 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $174K ÷ population 248 (2016 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A91 Water utility charges
    • C46 State aid
    • C89 State aid
    • C91 State aid
    • D30 Local government aid
    • D46 Local government aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T29 Licenses & permits
    • U40 Rents

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Brookside runs city-owned utilities, which add 48.3% 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 248 residents, small changes in Brookside's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.

Where the money comes from and where it goes

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

The biggest difference from peers is General government: $141 per resident, 22% below the peer median. On the revenue side, intergovernmental is 3.1× peers.

Money in

Revenue

$702
per residentin line with peers
Money in: Brookside revenue per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$33917% belowpeers $410
$2263.1×peers $73
$69in line withpeers $68
$5655% abovepeers $36
$1255% belowpeers $27
Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 224 reporting

Money out

Spending

$403
per resident39% below peers
Money out: Brookside spending per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$2228% belowpeers $242
$14122% belowpeers $181
$1639% abovepeers $12
$1639% abovepeers $12
$8No peer comparisonpeers $0
Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 196 reporting

Brookside 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
Brookside compared with its peer municipalities, FY2016, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
BrooksideUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 48.3% 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.$702$403$125Not reported for this year$480
RyeUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 54.7% 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.$769$611$101Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
Coal CreekUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 55.8% 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.$735$788$227$106Not reported for this year
JamestownUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 23.1% 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.$718$664$181Not reported for this year$189
Peer median$735$664$181Not reported for this yearBenchmark unavailable

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
FY2016 $702. 1 year withheld.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $735Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $702FY2021: withheld — Revenue per resident is 17% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2021 withheld: Revenue per resident is 17% of the peer median
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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$702$735$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Revenue per resident is 17% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $403. 1 year withheld.$0$1.1K$2.2K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $664Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $403FY2021: withheld — Expenditures per resident is 12% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2021 withheld: Expenditures per resident is 12% of the peer median
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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$403$664$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Expenditures per resident is 12% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $125 to FY2021 $245.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $181Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $125FY2021: $245

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$125$181$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021$245Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $480 to FY2021 $405.$0$843$1.7K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $1,686Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $480FY2021: $405

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$480Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021$405$1,686$1,411 (199 reporting)

Questions about Brookside’s finances

How much revenue does Brookside collect per resident?
Brookside collected $702 per resident in FY2016, 60% below the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Brookside's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Brookside spent $403 per resident in FY2016, 39% below the median of its peers: Rye, Coal Creek and Jamestown. See the figure
How much debt does Brookside have per resident?
Brookside carried $480 of debt per resident in FY2016, 55% below the Colorado median. See the figure
Which cities is Brookside compared with?
Brookside is compared with Rye, Coal Creek and Jamestown: 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)
+1.3%/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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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Brookside, 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

General government is Brookside’s largest difference from its peers (22% below the peer median in FY2016). See how that line moves month to month in your own budget-vs-actual.

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