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Deer Trail · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Arapahoe County · Denver Metro · statutory town · Pop. 1,755 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 1,229 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2021 in brief

Deer Trail collected $1,174 per resident (including city-run utilities), 53% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. Debt per resident runs 2.8× peers.

  • Tax revenue per resident withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 15% 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)

$1,174
48% below peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$2,250
CO median · 227 with a published figure
$2,476
Position
Higher than 12% of the 227 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+18.5%/yr
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$1,155
33% below peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$1,720
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$2,208
Position
Higher than 15% of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+33.4%/yr

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 201 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars
Withheld with this year's value

Debt per resident (definition)

$1,781
2.8× peers
Peer median
$632
CO median · 199 with a published figure
$1,411
Position
Higher than 59% of the 199 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 · $1,174
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $1,174 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $1.4M ÷ population 1,229 (2021 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A89 General government (other) charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • C89 State aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T29 Licenses & permits
    • U99 Miscellaneous

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Deer Trail runs city-owned utilities, which add 42.4% 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 1,229 residents, small changes in Deer Trail's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.
  • Debt per resident is 2.8× 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 Deer Trail; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is Parks, libraries & community: $20 per resident, 87% below the peer median. On the revenue side, Deer Trail reports no sales tax; peers collect $537 per resident.

Money in

Revenue

$1,174
per resident48% below peers
Money in: Deer Trail revenue per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$49870% abovepeers $293
$48711% abovepeers $439
$2378% belowpeers $104
$2095% belowpeers $374
None reported · peers $537$0None reported
Withheldpeers $325
Withheldpeers $83
Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$1,155
per resident33% below peers
Money out: Deer Trail spending per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$67719% abovepeers $570
$35014% belowpeers $409
$732.8×peers $27
$2087% belowpeers $148
None reported · peers $79$0None reported
Withheldpeers $152
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Deer Trail 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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Deer Trail compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
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$1,155Not reported for this year$1,781
PierceUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 17.6% 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.$2,023$1,720$773$392$49
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
GilcrestUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 12.0% 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.$1,696$1,068$620$199$632
KerseyUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 9.3% 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.$2,476$1,363$1,014$681$665
Peer median$2,250$1,720Benchmark unavailableNot reported for this year$632

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 $502 to FY2021 $1,174.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $590Peer median FY2021: $2,250Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $502FY2021: $1,174

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$502$590$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$1,174$2,250$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $274 to FY2021 $1,155.$0$1.1K$2.2K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $429Peer median FY2021: $1,720Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $274FY2021: $1,155

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$274$429$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021$1,155$1,720$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $99. 1 year withheld.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $99FY2021: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 15% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2021 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 15% of the peer median
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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$99Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 15% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2021 $1,781.$0$890.6$1.8K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $632Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $1,781

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016———
FY2021$1,781$632$1,411 (199 reporting)

Questions about Deer Trail’s finances

How much revenue does Deer Trail collect per resident?
Deer Trail collected $1,174 per resident in FY2021, 53% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Deer Trail's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Deer Trail spent $1,155 per resident in FY2021, 33% below the median of its peers: Pierce, Nederland, Gilcrest and Kersey. See the figure
How much debt does Deer Trail have per resident?
Deer Trail carried $1,781 of debt per resident in FY2021, 2.8× its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Deer Trail compared with?
Deer Trail is compared with Pierce, Nederland, Gilcrest and Kersey: 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)
+15.9%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$73.5K
2021 estimate
Poverty rate
14.4%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$290K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
7.3%
2021 estimate

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Sources

Dataset: Deer Trail, CO municipal finance benchmarks

Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab). Please credit “Source: Orivian Municipal Index, orivian.ai/benchmarks”. See the data use terms.

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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