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Dolores · FY2023 municipal finance benchmarks

Montezuma County · Southwest · statutory town · Pop. 933 (2025 estimate); FY2023 per-resident figures use 926 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021, FY2023

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

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FY2023 in brief

Dolores collected $2,484 per resident (including city-run utilities), 31% below the median of the 97 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 82% below its peers. Debt per resident runs 99% below peers.

  • Tax revenue per resident withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 16% 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

FY2023 headline figures

Revenue per resident (definition)

$2,484
82% below peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$13,790
CO median · 97 with a published figure
$3,580
Position
Higher than 23% of the 97 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 91 with a published figure
$3,680
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 · 90 with a published figure
$1,726
Position
Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars
Withheld with this year's value

Debt per resident (definition)

$245
99% below peers
Peer median
$25,474
CO median · 91 with a published figure
$2,130
Position
Higher than 6% of the 91 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 · $2,484
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $2,484 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $2.3M ÷ population 926 (2023 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A44 Streets & highways charges
    • A61 Parks & recreation charges
    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • C89 State aid
    • D89 Local government aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T20 Licenses & permits
    • T28 Licenses & permits
    • U20 Interest earnings
    • U30 Fines & forfeits
    • U99 Miscellaneous

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Dolores runs city-owned utilities, which add 14.6% 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 926 residents, small changes in Dolores's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Per resident, FY2023. Bars show Dolores; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

On the revenue side, the biggest difference from peers is Utility & transit charges: $363 per resident, 77% below the peer median.

Money in

Revenue

$2,484
per resident82% below peers
Money in: Dolores revenue per resident by category, FY2023, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$36377% belowpeers $1,577
$34746% belowpeers $640
$33667% belowpeers $1,006
$18886% belowpeers $1,379
Withheldpeers $4,147
Withheldpeers $2,548
Withheldpeers $2,303
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 97 reporting

Money out

Spending

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

Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 91 reporting

Dolores 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, FY2023. How peers are chosen

Open in Compare
Dolores compared with its peer municipalities, FY2023, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
DoloresUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 14.6% of total revenue in FY2023. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.$2,484$940$245
Central CityUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 11.4% of total revenue in FY2023. 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 1.6× the Colorado median.$13,790$14,997$7,889$1,799$99,078
Mountain VillageUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 8.6% of total revenue in FY2023. 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 7.0× the Colorado median.$33,136$31,265$16,827$8,118$32,366
Winter ParkRegional hub: Sales tax per resident is 10.4× the Colorado median.$26,089$28,038$15,201$12,097$25,474
Mt. Crested ButteRegional hub: Sales tax per resident is 3.6× the Colorado median.$8,532$8,375$7,312$4,147$1,202
MinturnUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 39.3% of total revenue in FY2023. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.$4,343$3,680$1,987$1,278$1,777
Peer median$13,790Benchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailable$4,147$25,474

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 $966 to FY2023 $2,484.$0$6.9K$13.8K’16’21’23Peer median FY2016: $3,543Peer median FY2021: $2,602Peer median FY2023: $13,790Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $966FY2021: $2,150FY2023: $2,484

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in 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$966$3,543$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$2,150$2,602$2,476 (227 reporting)
FY2023$2,484$13,790$3,580 (97 reporting, sample year)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $1,088 to FY2021 $1,698. 1 year withheld.$0$1.2K$2.3K’16’21’23Peer median FY2016: $2,306Peer median FY2021: $1,726Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,088FY2021: $1,698FY2023: withheld — Expenditures per resident is 15% of the peer median

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 15% of the peer median

Peer group changed in 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$1,088$2,306$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021$1,698$1,726$2,208 (220 reporting)
FY2023Withheld (Expenditures per resident is 15% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$3,680 (91 reporting, sample year)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2021 $1,100. 2 years withheld.$0$695.9$1.4K’16’21’23Peer median FY2021: $1,392Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $1,100FY2016: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 28% of this city's typical level in other yearsFY2023: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 16% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 28% of this city's typical level in other years
  • FY2023 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 16% of the peer median
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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 28% of this city's typical level in other years)Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021$1,100$1,392$1,072 (201 reporting)
FY2023Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 16% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,726 (90 reporting, sample year)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $735 to FY2023 $245.$0$12.7K$25.5K’16’21’23Peer median FY2016: $2,165Peer median FY2021: $761Peer median FY2023: $25,474Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $735FY2021: $313FY2023: $245

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2021, FY2023. Peers are matched each year, so the peer median can step when the group changes.

Show data table
Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$735$2,165$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021$313$761$1,411 (199 reporting)
FY2023$245$25,474$2,130 (91 reporting, sample year)

Questions about Dolores’s finances

How much revenue does Dolores collect per resident?
Dolores collected $2,484 per resident in FY2023, 31% below the median of the 97 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How much debt does Dolores have per resident?
Dolores carried $245 of debt per resident in FY2023, 99% below its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Dolores compared with?
Dolores is compared with Central City, Mountain Village, Winter Park, Mt. Crested Butte and Minturn: 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
2023 estimate
Median household income
$33.4K
2023 estimate
Poverty rate
14.3%
2023 estimate
Median home value
$263.3K
2023 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
10.5%
2023 estimate

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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Dolores, 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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