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Crestone · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

Saguache County · San Luis Valley · statutory town · Pop. 166 (2025 estimate); FY2016 per-resident figures use 132 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2016 in brief

Debt per resident runs 50% above peers.

  • Revenue per resident withheld: Revenue per resident is 7.0x the peer median
  • Tax revenue per resident withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 15.9x the peer 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)

Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 224 with a published figure
$1,746
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 · 196 with a published figure
$1,749
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 · 193 with a published figure
$705
Position
Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars
Withheld with this year's value

Debt per resident (definition)

$280
50% above peers
Peer median
$187
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 23% 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 ·
Withheld pending verification

  1. 1Withheld

    Revenue per resident is 7.0x the peer median It stays withheld until it is verified against Crestone’s audited financial report.

  2. 2Census line items

    • A01 Airport charges
    • A03 Commercial activities (other) charges
    • A59 Natural resources charges
    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A89 General government (other) charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • B59 Federal aid
    • C30 State aid
    • C50 State aid
    • D46 Local government aid
    • D89 Local government aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T19 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T20 Licenses & permits
    • T28 Licenses & permits
    • U50 Private donations

  3. 3Source file

What the numbers mean

  • With about 132 residents, small changes in Crestone'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 Crestone; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

Money in

Revenue

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

Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 224 reporting

Money out

Spending

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

Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 196 reporting

Crestone 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

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Crestone compared with its peer municipalities, FY2016, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
CrestoneNot reported for this year$280
HooperUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 22.9% 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.$914$200Not reported for this year$171
Black HawkRegional hub: Sales tax per resident is 45.9× the Colorado median.$25,492$197,891
RomeoUtilities: 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.$951Not reported for this year$178
MarbleUtilities: 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.$1,016$203Not reported for this year$195
Peer medianBenchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailableNot reported for this year$187

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
FY2021 $5,885. 1 year withheld.$0$2.9K$5.9K’16’21Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $5,885FY2016: withheld — Revenue per resident is 7.0x the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Revenue per resident is 7.0x the peer median
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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Revenue per resident is 7.0x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$5,885Benchmark unavailable$2,476 (227 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2021 $4,547. 1 year withheld.$0$2.3K$4.5K’16’21Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $4,547FY2016: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 15.9x the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 15.9x the peer median
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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 15.9x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021$4,547Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $280 to FY2021 $403.$0$1.4K$2.9K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $187Peer median FY2021: $2,871Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $280FY2021: $403

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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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$280$187$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021$403$2,871$1,411 (199 reporting)

Questions about Crestone’s finances

How much debt does Crestone have per resident?
Crestone carried $280 of debt per resident in FY2016, 50% above its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Crestone compared with?
Crestone is compared with Hooper, Black Hawk, Romeo and Marble: 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)
+0.6%/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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Also in San Luis Valley

Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Crestone, 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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