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Cedaredge · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Delta County · Western Slope · home rule municipality · Pop. 2,448 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 2,337 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2021 in brief

Cedaredge collected $2,015 per resident (including city-run utilities), 19% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. Tax revenue per resident sits 16% below its peers, and 50% below the state median. Debt per resident runs 46% above peers.

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)

$2,015
12% below peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$2,278
CO median · 227 with a published figure
$2,476
Position
Higher than 35% of the 227 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
−0.3%/yr
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$1,959
in line with peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$2,058
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$2,208
Position
Higher than 43% of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+4.3%/yr

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$534
16% below peers
Peer median
$634
CO median · 201 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 20% of the 201 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+10.3%/yr

Debt per resident (definition)

$1,341
46% above peers
Peer median
$916
CO median · 199 with a published figure
$1,411
Position
Higher than 47% of the 199 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+28.6%/yr
How Colorado compares on debt per resident

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $2,015
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $2,015 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $4.7M ÷ population 2,337 (2021 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A61 Parks & recreation charges
    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A89 General government (other) charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • C89 State aid
    • D89 Local government aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T20 Licenses & permits
    • T24 Licenses & permits
    • T28 Licenses & permits
    • T29 Licenses & permits
    • T99 Other taxes
    • U11 Sale of property
    • U20 Interest earnings
    • U30 Fines & forfeits
    • U40 Rents
    • U41 Royalties
    • U99 Miscellaneous

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Cedaredge runs city-owned utilities, which add 28.3% 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 2,337 residents, small changes in Cedaredge'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 Cedaredge; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is Utilities & environment: $730 per resident, 66% above the peer median. On the revenue side, fees & charges is 2.1× peers.

Money in

Revenue

$2,015
per resident12% below peers
Money in: Cedaredge revenue per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$5852.1×peers $281
$57135% abovepeers $423
$35119% belowpeers $434
$29111% belowpeers $326
$10971% abovepeers $63
$749% belowpeers $81
$352.1×peers $17
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$1,959
per residentin line with peers
Money out: Cedaredge spending per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$73066% abovepeers $439
$4242.8×peers $150
$35240% belowpeers $588
$27611% belowpeers $309
$13124% belowpeers $173
$472.1×peers $22
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Cedaredge 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

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Cedaredge compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
CedaredgeUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 28.3% 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.$2,015$1,959$534$351$1,341
MeekerUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 24.4% 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.$1,182$1,136$739$500Not reported for this year
PalisadeUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 11.2% 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.$3,787$2,513$1,474
RangelyUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 28.6% 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.$2,278$2,681$528$368$438
OlatheUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 12.7% 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.$1,276$1,123$464$363$601
Buena VistaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 16.8% 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.Regional hub: Sales tax per resident is 1.5× the Colorado median.$2,987$2,058$1,528$1,323$1,231
Peer median$2,278$2,058$634$434$916

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 $2,050 to FY2021 $2,015.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $1,156Peer median FY2021: $2,278Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $2,050FY2021: $2,015

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
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$2,050$1,156$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$2,015$2,278$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $1,585 to FY2021 $1,959.$0$1.1K$2.2K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $888Peer median FY2021: $2,058Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,585FY2021: $1,959

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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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$1,585$888$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021$1,959$2,058$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $327 to FY2021 $534.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $404Peer median FY2021: $634Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $327FY2021: $534

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
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$327$404$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021$534$634$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $381 to FY2021 $1,341.$0$705.6$1.4K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $916Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $381FY2021: $1,341

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$381Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021$1,341$916$1,411 (199 reporting)

Questions about Cedaredge’s finances

How much revenue does Cedaredge collect per resident?
Cedaredge collected $2,015 per resident in FY2021, 19% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Cedaredge's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Cedaredge spent $1,959 per resident in FY2021, in line with the median of its peers: Meeker, Palisade, Rangely, Olathe and Buena Vista. See the figure
How much debt does Cedaredge have per resident?
Cedaredge carried $1,341 of debt per resident in FY2021, 46% above its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Cedaredge compared with?
Cedaredge is compared with Meeker, Palisade, Rangely, Olathe and Buena Vista: 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)
+1.2%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$39.6K
2021 estimate
Poverty rate
24.5%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$212.8K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
10.1%
2021 estimate

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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Cedaredge, 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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