Granada · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Name: Granada, CO municipal finance benchmarks
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Prowers County · Eastern Plains · statutory town · Pop. 463 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 447 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

Fiscal yearCompare

FY2021 in brief

Tax revenue per resident sits 46% below its peers, and 82% below the state median.

Revenue per resident withheld: Revenue per resident is 3.1x 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 · 227 with a published figure Median of the 227 Colorado municipalities with FY2021 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $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)

Peer median: Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 220 with a published figure Median of the 220 Colorado municipalities with FY2021 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $2,208
Position: Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars: Withheld with this year's value

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$192

46% below peers

Peer median: $353
CO median · 201 with a published figure Median of the 201 Colorado municipalities with FY2021 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 9% of the 201 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: Not enough history for a 5-year change

Debt 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

How Colorado compares on debt per resident

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident ·

Withheld pending verification

1Withheld
Revenue per resident is 3.1x the peer median It stays withheld until it is verified against Granada’s audited financial report.
2Census line items
- A59 Natural resources charges
- A81 Solid waste charges
- A89 General government (other) charges
- A91 Water utility charges
- A92 Electric utility charges
- B89 Federal aid
- C89 State aid
- D89 Local government aid
- T01 Property tax
- T09 General sales tax
- T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
- T29 Licenses & permits
- U20 Interest earnings
- U30 Fines & forfeits
- U40 Rents
- U99 Miscellaneous
3Source file
- Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2022 - Individual Unit File
  Value for
  FY2021
  Survey file
  2022
  The 2022 Census survey covers fiscal years ending July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022, so a fiscal year ending December 31, 2021 is FY2021.
  Retrieved October 12, 2026 · View source: Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2022 - Individual Unit File (opens in a new tab)
- Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 - incorporated places
  Value for
  FY2021
  Source year
  2025
  Retrieved October 7, 2026 · View source: Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 - incorporated places (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers mean

With about 447 residents, small changes in Granada'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 Granada; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

Money in

Revenue

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

Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

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

Peer median of 2 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Granada 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

Granada compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
Municipality	Revenue	Expenditures	Tax revenue	Sales tax	Debt
Granada	Withheld Granada · Revenue per resident · FY2021 Reason: Revenue per resident is 3.1x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	Withheld Granada · Expenditures per resident · FY2021 Reason: Expenditures per resident is 11.4x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	$192	$107	Not reported for this year
FlemingUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 54.3% 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.	$1,940	$1,618	$403	$255	$3,556
WileyUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 23.0% 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.	$1,062	Withheld Wiley · Expenditures per resident · FY2021 Reason: Expenditures per resident is 14% of the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	$304	$167	$623
OtisUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 78.3% 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.	$771	Withheld Otis · Expenditures per resident · FY2021 Reason: Expenditures per resident is 4% of the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	$167	$69	Not reported for this year
SimlaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 23.3% 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.	$538	Withheld Simla · Expenditures per resident · FY2021 Reason: Expenditures per resident is 26% of the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	Withheld Simla · Tax revenue per resident · FY2021 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 23% of the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	Withheld Simla · Sales tax per resident · FY2021 Reason: Sales tax per resident is 12% of the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	Not reported for this year
FlaglerUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 22.6% 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.	$1,998	$1,927	$806	$522	$121
Peer median	Benchmark unavailable	Benchmark unavailable	$353	$211	Not 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.

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)

Tax revenue per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 33.3x the peer median

Show data table

Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 33.3x the peer median)	Benchmark unavailable	$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021	$192	$353	$1,072 (201 reporting)

Debt per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Show data table

Debt per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$2,887	$1,073	$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021	—	—	—

Questions about Granada’s finances

Which cities is Granada compared with?: Granada is compared with Fleming, Wiley, Otis, Simla and Flagler: 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): −2.1%/yr; 2021 estimate
Median household income: $42.2K; 2021 estimate
Poverty rate: 16.5%; 2021 estimate
Median home value: $74K; 2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate: 18.4%; 2021 estimate

Explore further

Also in Eastern Plains

Wiley$1,062 · FY2021
Otis$771 · FY2021
Fleming$1,940 · FY2021
Walsh$1,685 · FY2021
Swink$1,049 · FY2021
Flagler$1,998 · FY2021
Simla$538 · FY2021
Manzanola$2,639 · FY2021

Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2017-2021 · 2021
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 7, 2026View source: American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2017-2021 (opens in a new tab)
Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2022 - Individual Unit File · 2022 survey file
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 12, 2026View source: Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2022 - Individual Unit File (opens in a new tab)
Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 - incorporated places · 2025
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 7, 2026View source: Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 - incorporated places (opens in a new tab)

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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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