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Crook · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Logan County · Eastern Plains · statutory town · Pop. 125 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 131 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2021 in brief

Crook collected $893 per resident (including city-run utilities), 64% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 22% below its peers. Tax revenue per resident sits 32% below its peers, and 86% below the state 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)

$893
22% below peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$1,138
CO median · 227 with a published figure
$2,476
Position
Higher than 6% of the 227 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
−3.9%/yr
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

Includes city-owned utilities
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)

$145
32% below peers
Peer median
$214
CO median · 201 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 5% of the 201 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
−5.5%/yr

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $893
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $893 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $117K ÷ population 131 (2021 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A81 Solid waste charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • C89 State aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • U20 Interest earnings
    • U40 Rents

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Crook runs city-owned utilities, which add 33.3% 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 131 residents, small changes in Crook'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 Crook; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

On the revenue side, the biggest difference from peers is Fees & charges: $427 per resident, 2.3× the peer median.

Money in

Revenue

$893
per resident22% below peers
Money in: Crook revenue per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$4272.3×peers $185
$29812% belowpeers $338
$14510% belowpeers $161
$1543% belowpeers $27
$895% belowpeers $149
None reported · peers $54$0None reported
Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

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

Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Crook 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
Crook compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
CrookUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 33.3% 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.$893$145Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
PritchettUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 44.1% 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.$830$804$214Not reported for this year$1,714
GenoaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 37.0% 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.$1,109$1,244$244Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
CrowleyUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 13.1% 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.$2,374$1,854$53Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
BethuneUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 25.4% 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.$1,168Not reported for this year$1,011
Peer median$1,138Benchmark unavailable$214Not reported for this yearNot 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.

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 $1,092 to FY2021 $893.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $958Peer median FY2021: $1,138Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,092FY2021: $893

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$1,092$958$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$893$1,138$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $1,009. 1 year withheld.$0$1.1K$2.2K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $746Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,009FY2021: withheld — Expenditures per resident is 6% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2021 withheld: Expenditures per resident is 6% of the peer median
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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$1,009$746$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Expenditures per resident is 6% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $193 to FY2021 $145.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $214Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $193FY2021: $145

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$193Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021$145$214$1,072 (201 reporting)

Questions about Crook’s finances

How much revenue does Crook collect per resident?
Crook collected $893 per resident in FY2021, 64% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
Which cities is Crook compared with?
Crook is compared with Pritchett, Genoa, Crowley and Bethune: 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)
+3.7%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$42K
2021 estimate
Poverty rate
18.5%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$106.3K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
20.7%
2021 estimate

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Sources

Dataset: Crook, 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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