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Crawford · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Delta County · Western Slope · statutory town · Pop. 411 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 403 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2021 in brief

Tax revenue per resident sits 50% below its peers, and 66% below the state median.

  • Revenue per resident withheld: Revenue per resident is 30% 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)

$1,546
in line with peers
Peer median
$1,601
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$2,208
Position
Higher than 29% of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+17.1%/yr

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$365
50% below peers
Peer median
$723
CO median · 201 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 13% of the 201 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+13.9%/yr

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident ·
Withheld pending verification

  1. 1Withheld

    Revenue per resident is 30% of the peer median It stays withheld until it is verified against Crawford’s audited financial report.

  2. 2Census line items

    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • C89 State aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T19 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T24 Licenses & permits
    • T99 Other taxes
    • U20 Interest earnings
    • U40 Rents
    • U99 Miscellaneous

  3. 3Source file

What the numbers mean

  • With about 403 residents, small changes in Crawford'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 Crawford; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is Public safety: none reported, against a peer median of $483 per resident.

Money in

Revenue

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

Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$1,546
per residentin line with peers
Money out: Crawford spending per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$87649% abovepeers $587
$531in line withpeers $558
$13943% belowpeers $244
None reported · peers $483$0None reported
None reported · peers $87$0None reported
None reported · peers $35$0None reported
Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Crawford 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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Crawford compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
Crawford$1,546$365$295Not reported for this year
CollbranUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 11.4% 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.$4,840$3,386$493$388Not reported for this year
YampaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 36.6% 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.$1,935$1,640$652$418$1,126
Lake CityUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 18.1% 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 1.8× the Colorado median.$4,270$1,326$1,807$1,576$1,970
De Beque$2,031
BlancaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 17.4% 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.$1,843$1,562$795$414$644
Peer medianBenchmark unavailable$1,601$723$416Not 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 $945. 1 year withheld.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $1,073Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $945FY2021: withheld — Revenue per resident is 30% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2021 withheld: Revenue per resident is 30% of the peer median
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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$945$1,073$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Revenue per resident is 30% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $701 to FY2021 $1,546.$0$1.1K$2.2K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $1,371Peer median FY2021: $1,601Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $701FY2021: $1,546

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$701$1,371$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021$1,546$1,601$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $190 to FY2021 $365.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $391Peer median FY2021: $723Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $190FY2021: $365

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$190$391$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021$365$723$1,072 (201 reporting)

Questions about Crawford’s finances

How does Crawford's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Crawford spent $1,546 per resident in FY2021, in line with the median of its peers: Collbran, Yampa, Lake City, De Beque and Blanca. See the figure
Which cities is Crawford compared with?
Crawford is compared with Collbran, Yampa, Lake City, De Beque and Blanca: 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)
−0.9%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$43K
2021 estimate
Poverty rate
23.3%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$162.5K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
14.8%
2021 estimate

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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Crawford, 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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