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Dove Creek · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Dolores County · Southwest · statutory town · Pop. 664 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 649 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2021 in brief

Several FY2021 figures are withheld pending verification against the city's audited report.

  • Revenue per resident withheld: Revenue per resident is 29% of the peer median
  • Tax revenue per resident withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 28% 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)

Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 227 with a published figure
$2,476
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)

$1,829
58% below peers
Peer median
$4,312
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$2,208
Position
Higher than 40% of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

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

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident ·
Withheld pending verification

  1. 1Withheld

    Revenue per resident is 29% of the peer median It stays withheld until it is verified against Dove Creek’s audited financial report.

  2. 2Census line items

    • A45 Toll highways charges
    • A61 Parks & recreation charges
    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • C89 State aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T24 Licenses & permits
    • T28 Licenses & permits
    • T29 Licenses & permits
    • U20 Interest earnings
    • U30 Fines & forfeits
    • U99 Miscellaneous

  3. 3Source file

What the numbers mean

  • With about 649 residents, small changes in Dove Creek'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 Dove Creek; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is Utilities & environment: $564 per resident, 65% below the peer median.

Money in

Revenue

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

Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$1,829
per resident58% below peers
Money out: Dove Creek spending per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$80026% belowpeers $1,077
$56465% belowpeers $1,607
$21059% belowpeers $515
$10857% belowpeers $252
$174.4×peers $4
None reported · peers $69$0None reported
Withheldpeers $589
Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Dove Creek 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
Dove Creek compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
Dove Creek$1,829Not reported for this year
SilvertonUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 14.8% 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.Regional hub: Sales tax per resident is 2.5× the Colorado median.$5,664$5,299$3,165$2,162$1,855
IgnacioUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 15.2% 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 2.6× the Colorado median.$5,129$4,332$2,333$2,261Not reported for this year
Hot Sulphur Springs$2,847
FairplayUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 10.6% 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 3.0× the Colorado median.$5,213$3,948$2,591$4,005
WaldenUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 53.2% 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.$4,010$4,292$997$815$2,768
Peer medianBenchmark unavailable$4,312Benchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailableNot 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.

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)
Expenditures per resident
FY2021 $1,829.$0$2.2K$4.3K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $4,312Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $1,829

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016———
FY2021$1,829$4,312$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
1 year withheld.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 28% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2021 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 28% of the peer median
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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016———
FY2021Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 28% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (201 reporting)

Questions about Dove Creek’s finances

How does Dove Creek's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Dove Creek spent $1,829 per resident in FY2021, 58% below the median of its peers: Silverton, Ignacio, Hot Sulphur Springs, Fairplay and Walden. See the figure
Which cities is Dove Creek compared with?
Dove Creek is compared with Silverton, Ignacio, Hot Sulphur Springs, Fairplay and Walden: 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)
−2.2%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$66.3K
2021 estimate
Poverty rate
11.9%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$110.8K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
22.9%
2021 estimate

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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Dove Creek, 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

Utilities & environment is Dove Creek’s largest difference from its peers (65% below the peer median in FY2021). See how that line moves month to month in your own budget-vs-actual.

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