Flagler · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

Name: Flagler, CO municipal finance benchmarks
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Kit Carson County · Eastern Plains · statutory town · Pop. 584 (2025 estimate); FY2016 per-resident figures use 563 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

You’re viewing FY2016. See the latest view (FY2021). Latest Census Bureau finance data for Flagler: FY2021. Retrieved Oct 2026. Newer years are added when the Census Bureau publishes them. Why the lag?

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FY2016 in brief

Debt per resident runs 77% below peers.

Revenue per resident withheld: Revenue per resident is 3.8x the peer median

Generated from the figures below. Every number links to its Census source.

Compared with

Nearest on population, household income and region

Revenue per resident (definition)

Peer median: Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 224 with a published figure Median of the 224 Colorado municipalities with FY2016 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $1,746
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)

$2,158

2.3× peers

Peer median: $941
CO median · 196 with a published figure Median of the 196 Colorado municipalities with FY2016 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $1,749
Position: Higher than 60% of the 196 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: Not enough history for a 5-year change

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

Peer median: Not reported for this year
CO median: Not reported for this year
Position: Not reported for this year
5-year change: Not reported for this year

Debt per resident (definition)

$377

77% below peers

Peer median: $1,603
CO median · 220 with a published figure Median of the 220 Colorado municipalities with FY2016 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $1,072
Position: Higher than 26% of the 220 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 ·

Withheld pending verification

1Withheld
Revenue per resident is 3.8x the peer median It stays withheld until it is verified against Flagler’s audited financial report.
2Census line items
- A61 Parks & recreation charges
- A91 Water utility charges
- C30 State aid
- C89 State aid
- C91 State aid
- D30 Local government aid
- U30 Fines & forfeits
- U40 Rents
- U99 Miscellaneous
3Source file
- Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2017 - Individual Unit File
  Value for
  FY2016
  Survey file
  2017
  The 2017 Census survey covers fiscal years ending July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017, so a fiscal year ending December 31, 2016 is FY2016.
  Retrieved October 12, 2026 · View source: Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2017 - Individual Unit File (opens in a new tab)
- Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2020 - incorporated places
  Value for
  FY2016
  Source year
  2020
  Retrieved October 7, 2026 · View source: Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2020 - incorporated places (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers mean

With about 563 residents, small changes in Flagler's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Per resident, FY2016. Bars show Flagler; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is General government: $1,160 per resident, 9.9× the peer median.

Money in

Revenue

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

Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 224 reporting

Money out

Spending

$2,158

per resident2.3× peers

Money out: Flagler spending per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
Category	Per resident	Peer median	vs peers	Share of spending
	$1,160	$117	9.9× peerspeers $117	54%

Financial administration $988 · peers $22 incl. $716 construction General government (other) $172 · peers $0 incl. $716 construction Administration, finance, legal and courts, public buildings and other general government. Census line items E23 Financial administration E89 General government (other) F23 Financial administration
	$586	$452	30% above peerspeers $452	27%

Water utility $259 · peers $170 incl. $126 construction Solid waste $231 · peers $152 Sewer $96 · peers $89 incl. $126 construction Water, sewer, solid waste, electric and gas utilities, and natural resources. Census line items E80 Sewer E81 Solid waste E91 Water utility F91 Water utility
	$323	$108	3.0× peerspeers $108	15%

Streets & highways $323 · peers $107 Streets and highways, transit, parking and airports. Census line items E44 Streets & highways
	$75	$102	27% below peerspeers $102	3%

Parks & recreation $53 · peers $78 Libraries $21 · peers $0 Parks and recreation, libraries, housing and community development. Census line items E52 Libraries E61 Parks & recreation
	$14	$76	81% below peerspeers $76	1%

Interest on debt $14 · peers $76 Interest paid on the municipality's debt. Includes Census Bureau estimates for this year. Census line items I89 Interest on debt
None reported · peers $109	$0	$109	None reported	0%

Flagler reported nothing in this category for FY2016. Police, fire protection, inspection and corrections.

Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 196 reporting

Flagler 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, FY2016. How peers are chosen

Open in Compare

Flagler compared with its peer municipalities, FY2016, per resident
Municipality	Revenue	Expenditures	Tax revenue	Sales tax	Debt
Flagler	Withheld Flagler · Revenue per resident · FY2016 Reason: Revenue per resident is 3.8x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	$2,158	Not reported for this year	Not reported for this year	$377
WalshUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 43.9% of total revenue in FY2016. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.	$1,411	$1,020	$511	$318	$1,603
HugoUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 19.4% of total revenue in FY2016. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.	$1,619	$1,867	$789	$487	$534
Peer median	Benchmark unavailable	$941	Not reported for this year	Not reported for this year	$1,603

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

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

FY2016 withheld: Revenue per resident is 3.8x the peer median

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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	Withheld (Revenue per resident is 3.8x the peer median)	Benchmark unavailable	$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021	$1,998	$1,566	$2,476 (227 reporting)

Expenditures per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$2,158	$941	$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021	$1,927	Benchmark unavailable	$2,208 (220 reporting)

Tax revenue per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	—	—	—
FY2021	$806	$516	$1,072 (201 reporting)

Debt per resident

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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Debt per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$377	$1,603	$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021	$121	$1,411	$1,411 (199 reporting)

Questions about Flagler’s finances

How does Flagler's spending per resident compare with similar cities?: Flagler spent $2,158 per resident in FY2016, 2.3× the median of its peers: Walsh and Hugo. See the figure
How much debt does Flagler have per resident?: Flagler carried $377 of debt per resident in FY2016, 77% below its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Flagler compared with?: Flagler is compared with Walsh and Hugo: 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): −0.5%/yr; 2016 estimate
Median household income: Not reported for this year
Poverty rate: Not reported for this year
Median home value: Not reported for this year
Housing vacancy rate: Not reported for this year

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Swink$1,049 · FY2021
Eads$1,635 · FY2021
Stratton$1,566 · FY2021
Walsh$1,685 · FY2021
Otis$771 · FY2021
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Cheyenne Wells$1,495 · FY2021

Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2017 - Individual Unit File · 2017 survey file
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 12, 2026View source: Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2017 - Individual Unit File (opens in a new tab)
Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2020 - incorporated places · 2020
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 7, 2026View source: Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2020 - incorporated places (opens in a new tab)

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Flagler · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

FY2016 in brief

FY2016 headline figures

Revenue per resident (definition)

Expenditures per resident (definition)

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

Debt per resident (definition)

How this number was calculated

What the numbers mean

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Money in

Money out

Flagler and its peers

Trends

Questions about Flagler’s finances

Community context

Explore further

Also in Eastern Plains

Sources

General government is Flagler’s largest difference from its peers (9.9× the peer median in FY2016). See how that line moves month to month in your own budget-vs-actual.