Columbine Valley · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Name: Columbine Valley, CO municipal finance benchmarks
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Arapahoe County · Denver Metro · statutory town · Pop. 1,684 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 1,553 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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Fiscal yearCompare

FY2021 in brief

Columbine Valley collected $3,075 per resident, 24% above the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 16% below its peers. Tax revenue per resident sits 58% above its peers, and 2.4× the state median.

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

Compared with

Nearest on population, household income and region

Revenue per resident (definition)

$3,075

16% below peers

Peer median: $3,649
CO median · 227 with a published figure Median of the 227 Colorado municipalities with FY2021 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $2,476
Position: Higher than 66% of the 227 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: +39.5%/yr

How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$1,276

48% below peers

Peer median: $2,463
CO median · 220 with a published figure Median of the 220 Colorado municipalities with FY2021 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $2,208
Position: Higher than 19% of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: +13.9%/yr

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$2,566

58% above peers

Peer median: $1,619
CO median · 201 with a published figure Median of the 201 Colorado municipalities with FY2021 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $1,072
Position: Higher than 86% of the 201 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: +39.3%/yr

Debt per resident (definition)

Peer median: Not reported for this year
CO median: Not reported for this year
Position: Not reported for this year
5-year change: Not reported for this year

How Colorado compares on debt per resident

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $3,075

Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

1Metric
$3,075 Total revenue divided by population
= Total revenue ÷ population
Full definition: Revenue per resident
2Inputs
Total revenue $4.8M ÷ population 1,553 (2021 estimate)
3Census line items
- C89 State aid
- D89 Local government aid
- T01 Property tax
- T09 General sales tax
- T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
- T19 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
- T24 Licenses & permits
- T28 Licenses & permits
- U20 Interest earnings
- U50 Private donations
- U99 Miscellaneous
4Source file
- Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2022 - Individual Unit File
  Value for
  FY2021
  Survey file
  2022
  The 2022 Census survey covers fiscal years ending July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022, so a fiscal year ending December 31, 2021 is FY2021.
  Retrieved October 12, 2026 · View source: Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2022 - Individual Unit File (opens in a new tab)
- Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 - incorporated places
  Value for
  FY2021
  Source year
  2025
  Retrieved October 7, 2026 · View source: Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 - incorporated places (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers mean

With about 1,553 residents, small changes in Columbine Valley'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 Columbine Valley; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is Utilities & environment: $61 per resident, 91% below the peer median. On the revenue side, other taxes is 10.7× peers.

Money in

Revenue

$3,075

per resident16% below peers

Money in: Columbine Valley revenue per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
Category	Per resident	Peer median	vs peers	Share of revenue
	$1,172	$824	42% above peerspeers $824	38%

General sales tax $1,172 · peers $824 General sales and use tax. Census line items T09 General sales tax
	$1,117	$105	10.7× peerspeers $105	36%

Licenses & permits $1,050 · peers $80 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.) $67 · peers $0 Lodging, utility, tobacco and other selective sales taxes, licenses and permits, and other taxes. Census line items T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.) T19 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.) T24 Licenses & permits T28 Licenses & permits
	$278	$522	47% below peerspeers $522	9%

Property tax $278 · peers $522 Property tax levied by the municipality. Census line items T01 Property tax
	$255	$239	7% above peerspeers $239	8%

Miscellaneous $252 · peers $110 Private donations $3 · peers $0 Interest earnings $1 · peers $0 Interest earnings, fines, rents, special assessments, donations and sales of property. Census line items U20 Interest earnings U50 Private donations U99 Miscellaneous
	$254	$375	32% below peerspeers $375	8%

Local government aid $247 · peers $0 State aid $7 · peers $170 Grants and shared revenue from federal, state and local governments. Census line items C89 State aid D89 Local government aid
None reported · peers $498	$0	$498	None reported	0%

Columbine Valley reported nothing in this category for FY2021. Revenue of city-owned water, electric, gas and transit systems.
None reported · peers $487	$0	$487	None reported	0%

Columbine Valley reported nothing in this category for FY2021. Charges for services such as sewer, trash, recreation, parking and airports.

Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$1,276

per resident48% below peers

Money out: Columbine Valley spending per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
Category	Per resident	Peer median	vs peers	Share of spending
	$599	$874	31% below peerspeers $874	47%

Financial administration $538 · peers $0 incl. $8 construction Central staff services $30 · peers $384 Judicial & legal $28 · peers $3 General government (other) $3 · peers $350 incl. $8 construction Administration, finance, legal and courts, public buildings and other general government. Census line items E23 Financial administration E25 Judicial & legal E29 Central staff services F23 Financial administration L89 General government (other)
	$504	$363	39% above peerspeers $363	39%

Police $504 · peers $363 incl. $28 construction incl. $28 construction Police, fire protection, inspection and corrections. Census line items E62 Police F62 Police
	$108	$265	59% below peerspeers $265	8%

Streets & highways $108 · peers $265 Streets and highways, transit, parking and airports. Census line items E44 Streets & highways
	$61	$677	91% below peerspeers $677	5%

Solid waste $61 · peers $0 Water, sewer, solid waste, electric and gas utilities, and natural resources. Census line items E81 Solid waste
	$5	$0	No peer comparisonpeers $0	<1%

Health $5 · peers $0 Health, hospitals and public welfare. Census line items E32 Health
None reported · peers $30	$0	$30	None reported	0%

Columbine Valley reported nothing in this category for FY2021. Interest paid on the municipality's debt.
None reported · peers $12	$0	$12	None reported	0%

Columbine Valley reported nothing in this category for FY2021. Parks and recreation, libraries, housing and community development.

Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Columbine Valley 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

Open in Compare

Columbine Valley compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
Municipality	Revenue	Expenditures	Tax revenue	Sales tax	Debt
Columbine Valley	$3,075	$1,276	$2,566	$1,172	Not reported for this year
NederlandUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 13.6% 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.Regional hub: Sales tax per resident is 1.7× the Colorado median.	$3,649	$2,463	$1,971	$1,468	$432
Bow Mar	$1,399	$1,303	$1,102	Not reported for this year	Not reported for this year
LyonsUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 29.3% 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.	$7,153	$5,472	$1,332	$850	$2,192
Deer TrailUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 42.4% 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.	$1,174	$1,155	Withheld Deer Trail · Tax revenue per resident · FY2021 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 15% of the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	Not reported for this year	$1,781
KeenesburgUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 31.4% 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.	$6,132	$2,928	$1,907	$824	$820
Peer median	$3,649	$2,463	$1,619	$850	Not 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

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
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$582	$1,820	$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021	$3,075	$3,649	$2,476 (227 reporting)

Expenditures per resident

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
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$667	$1,873	$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021	$1,276	$2,463	$2,208 (220 reporting)

Tax revenue per resident

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
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$489	$1,046	$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021	$2,566	$1,619	$1,072 (201 reporting)

Questions about Columbine Valley’s finances

How much revenue does Columbine Valley collect per resident?: Columbine Valley collected $3,075 per resident in FY2021, 24% above the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Columbine Valley's spending per resident compare with similar cities?: Columbine Valley spent $1,276 per resident in FY2021, 48% below the median of its peers: Nederland, Bow Mar, Lyons, Deer Trail and Keenesburg. See the figure
Which cities is Columbine Valley compared with?: Columbine Valley is compared with Nederland, Bow Mar, Lyons, Deer Trail and Keenesburg: 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): +2.0%/yr; 2021 estimate
Median household income: $245.2K; 2021 estimate
Poverty rate: 1.0%; 2021 estimate
Median home value: $1.1M; 2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate: 4.7%; 2021 estimate

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Also in Denver Metro

Deer Trail$1,174 · FY2021
Nederland$3,649 · FY2021
Lyons$5,905 · FY2023
Bow Mar$1,771 · FY2022
Foxfield$1,354 · FY2021
Mountain View$937 · FY2016
Morrison
Jamestown$718 · FY2016

Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2017-2021 · 2021
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 7, 2026View source: American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2017-2021 (opens in a new tab)
Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2022 - Individual Unit File · 2022 survey file
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 12, 2026View source: Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2022 - Individual Unit File (opens in a new tab)
Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 - incorporated places · 2025
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 7, 2026View source: Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 - incorporated places (opens in a new tab)

Dataset: Columbine Valley, 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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Columbine Valley · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

FY2021 in brief

FY2021 headline figures

Revenue per resident (definition)

Expenditures per resident (definition)

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

Debt per resident (definition)

How this number was calculated

What the numbers mean

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Money in

Money out

Columbine Valley and its peers

Trends

Questions about Columbine Valley’s finances

Community context

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Also in Denver Metro

Sources

Utilities & environment is Columbine Valley’s largest difference from its peers (91% below the peer median in FY2021). See how that line moves month to month in your own budget-vs-actual.