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Coal Creek · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Fremont County · Southern Colorado · statutory town · Pop. 361 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 366 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

You’re viewing FY2021. See the latest view (FY2016). Latest Census Bureau finance data for Coal Creek: FY2021. Retrieved Oct 2026. Newer years are added when the Census Bureau publishes them. Why the lag?

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FY2021 in brief

Debt per resident runs 64% below the state median.

  • Revenue per resident withheld: Revenue per resident is 18% of the peer median
  • Tax revenue per resident withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 28% 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)

Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 227 with a published figure
$2,476
Position
Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars
Withheld with this year's value
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

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)

$503
64% below CO median
Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 199 with a published figure
$1,411
Position
Higher than 21% of the 199 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 ·
Withheld pending verification

  1. 1Withheld

    Revenue per resident is 18% of the peer median It stays withheld until it is verified against Coal Creek’s audited financial report.

  2. 2Census line items

    • 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.)
    • T29 Licenses & permits
    • U99 Miscellaneous

  3. 3Source file

What the numbers mean

  • With about 366 residents, small changes in Coal Creek'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 Coal Creek; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

Money in

Revenue

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

Peer median of 2 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

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

Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Coal Creek 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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Coal Creek compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
Coal Creek$503
Boone$4,724$175Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
Westcliffe$2,311$2,166Not reported for this year
Victor$380Not reported for this year
RockvaleUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 73.8% 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.$1,222$926Not reported for this year$360
Garden CityRegional hub: Sales tax per resident is 11.9× the Colorado median.$10,217Not reported for this year
Peer medianBenchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailable

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 $735. 1 year withheld.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $735FY2021: withheld — Revenue per resident is 18% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2021 withheld: Revenue per resident is 18% of the peer median
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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$735Benchmark unavailable$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Revenue per resident is 18% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $788. 1 year withheld.$0$1.1K$2.2K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $611Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $788FY2021: withheld — Expenditures per resident is 19% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2021 withheld: Expenditures per resident is 19% of the peer median
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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$788$611$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Expenditures per resident is 19% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $227. 1 year withheld.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $125Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $227FY2021: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 28% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2021 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 28% of the peer median
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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$227$125$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 28% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2021 $503.$0$705.6$1.4K’16’21Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $503

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016———
FY2021$503Benchmark unavailable$1,411 (199 reporting)

Questions about Coal Creek’s finances

How much debt does Coal Creek have per resident?
Coal Creek carried $503 of debt per resident in FY2021, 64% below the Colorado median. See the figure
Which cities is Coal Creek compared with?
Coal Creek is compared with Boone, Westcliffe, Victor, Rockvale and Garden City: 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)
+1.5%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$37.4K
2021 estimate
Poverty rate
29.5%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$118K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
9.5%
2021 estimate

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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Coal Creek, 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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