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Dacono · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Weld County · Northern Front Range · home rule municipality · Pop. 6,844 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 6,500 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2017, FY2021, FY2023

Latest Census Bureau finance data for Dacono: FY2023. Retrieved Oct 2026. Newer years are added when the Census Bureau publishes them. Why the lag?

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FY2021 in brief

Dacono collected $2,303 per resident (including city-run utilities), 7% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 27% below its peers. Tax revenue per resident sits 54% below its peers, and 12% below the state median. Debt per resident runs 6.7× peers.

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)

$2,303
27% below peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$3,154
CO median · 227 with a published figure
$2,476
Position
Higher than 43% of the 227 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+10.7%/yr
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$2,833
in line with peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$2,979
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$2,208
Position
Higher than 68% of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+15.9%/yr

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$948
54% below peers
Peer median
$2,063
CO median · 201 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 43% of the 201 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+3.2%/yr

Debt per resident (definition)

$4,422
6.7× peers
Peer median
$663
CO median · 199 with a published figure
$1,411
Position
Higher than 88% of the 199 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+48.8%/yr
How Colorado compares on debt per resident

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $2,303
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $2,303 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $15M ÷ population 6,500 (2021 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A81 Solid waste charges
    • A89 General government (other) charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • B89 Federal aid
    • C89 State aid
    • D89 Local government aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T11 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T20 Licenses & permits
    • T24 Licenses & permits
    • T28 Licenses & permits
    • T29 Licenses & permits
    • U01 Special assessments
    • U20 Interest earnings
    • U30 Fines & forfeits
    • U41 Royalties
    • U50 Private donations
    • U99 Miscellaneous

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Dacono runs city-owned utilities, which add 18.5% 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
  • Debt per resident is 6.7× the peer median. One large bond issue can do this; check the city's annual financial report for what it funded.

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Per resident, FY2021. Bars show Dacono; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is Public safety: $723 per resident, 2.2× the peer median. On the revenue side, other revenue is 2.9× peers.

Money in

Revenue

$2,303
per resident27% below peers
Money in: Dacono revenue per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$8202.9×peers $286
$46024% abovepeers $371
$4278% belowpeers $464
$39357% belowpeers $917
$9545% belowpeers $173
$5855% belowpeers $128
$5281% belowpeers $271
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$2,833
per residentin line with peers
Money out: Dacono spending per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$1,55428% abovepeers $1,214
$7232.2×peers $331
$15769% belowpeers $513
$15236% abovepeers $112
$12370% belowpeers $408
$12076% belowpeers $501
$4No peer comparisonpeers $0
None reported · peers $6$0None reported
Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Dacono 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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Dacono compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
DaconoUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 18.5% 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.$2,303$2,833$948$393$4,422
EatonUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 25.9% 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.$1,473$387$358
LochbuieUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 25.8% 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.$1,799$790$409$255$663
Mead$3,154$2,391$1,839$774$299
Estes ParkUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 48.6% 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 4.2× the Colorado median.$9,298$9,364$3,952$3,638$7,026
Fort LuptonUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 21.6% 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.$4,875$3,568$2,287$1,061$4,216
Peer median$3,154$2,979$2,063$774$663

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 $1,387 to FY2021 $2,303. 1 year withheld.$0$1.8K$3.6K’16’17’21’23Peer median FY2016: $2,000Peer median FY2017: $3,599Peer median FY2021: $3,154Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,387FY2017: $1,249FY2021: $2,303FY2023: withheld — Revenue per resident is 454% of this city's typical level in other years

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2023 withheld: Revenue per resident is 454% of this city's typical level in other years

Peer group changed in FY2017, FY2021, FY2023. 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$1,387$2,000$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2017$1,249$3,599$2,694 (35 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$2,303$3,154$2,476 (227 reporting)
FY2023Withheld (Revenue per resident is 454% of this city's typical level in other years)Benchmark unavailable$3,580 (97 reporting, sample year)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $1,357 to FY2021 $2,833. 1 year withheld.$0$1.8K$3.5K’16’17’21’23Peer median FY2016: $2,084Peer median FY2017: $3,520Peer median FY2021: $2,979Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,357FY2017: $1,355FY2021: $2,833FY2023: withheld — Expenditures per resident is 305% of this city's typical level in other years

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Census definition change: Excludes equipment purchases and payments to other governments, which Census stopped reporting after FY2021.

  • FY2023 withheld: Expenditures per resident is 305% of this city's typical level in other years

Peer group changed in FY2017, FY2021, FY2023. 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$1,357$2,084$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2017$1,355$3,520$2,663 (35 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$2,833$2,979$2,208 (220 reporting)
FY2023Withheld (Expenditures per resident is 305% of this city's typical level in other years)Benchmark unavailable$3,680 (91 reporting, sample year)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $808 to FY2021 $948. 1 year withheld.$0$1K$2.1K’16’17’21’23Peer median FY2016: $445Peer median FY2017: $1,886Peer median FY2021: $2,063Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $808FY2017: $706FY2021: $948FY2023: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 679% of this city's typical level in other years

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2023 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 679% of this city's typical level in other years

Peer group changed in FY2017, FY2021, FY2023. 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$808$445$705 (193 reporting)
FY2017$706$1,886$1,098 (34 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$948$2,063$1,072 (201 reporting)
FY2023Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 679% of this city's typical level in other years)Benchmark unavailable$1,726 (90 reporting, sample year)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $605 to FY2023 $1,678.$0$3.8K$7.5K’16’17’21’23Peer median FY2016: $558Peer median FY2017: $2,011Peer median FY2021: $663Peer median FY2023: $7,515Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $605FY2017: $597FY2021: $4,422FY2023: $1,678

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2017, FY2021, FY2023. 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$605$558$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2017$597$2,011$1,482 (34 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$4,422$663$1,411 (199 reporting)
FY2023$1,678$7,515$2,130 (91 reporting, sample year)

Questions about Dacono’s finances

How much revenue does Dacono collect per resident?
Dacono collected $2,303 per resident in FY2021, 7% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Dacono's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Dacono spent $2,833 per resident in FY2021, in line with the median of its peers: Eaton, Lochbuie, Mead, Estes Park and Fort Lupton. See the figure
How much debt does Dacono have per resident?
Dacono carried $4,422 of debt per resident in FY2021, 6.7× its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Dacono compared with?
Dacono is compared with Eaton, Lochbuie, Mead, Estes Park and Fort Lupton: 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)
+3.0%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$85.5K
2021 estimate
Poverty rate
6.5%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$347.5K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
0.0%
2021 estimate

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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Dacono, 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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