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Larkspur · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Douglas County · Denver Metro · home rule municipality · Pop. 219 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 209 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2021 in brief

Debt per resident runs 13.7× peers.

Regional hub: sales tax per resident is 8.3× the Colorado median.

  • Revenue per resident withheld: Revenue per resident is 6.5x the peer median
  • Tax revenue per resident withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 46.9x 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)

$1,971
12% below peers
Peer median
$2,242
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$2,208
Position
Higher than 44% 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

Debt per resident (definition)

$21,407
13.7× peers
Peer median
$1,565
CO median · 199 with a published figure
$1,411
Position
Higher than 97% of the 199 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+16.2%/yr
How Colorado compares on debt per resident

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident ·
Withheld pending verification

  1. 1Withheld

    Revenue per resident is 6.5x the peer median It stays withheld until it is verified against Larkspur’s audited financial report.

  2. 2Census line items

    • 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
    • T10 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T20 Licenses & permits
    • T28 Licenses & permits
    • U20 Interest earnings
    • U50 Private donations
    • U99 Miscellaneous

  3. 3Source file

What the numbers mean

  • With about 209 residents, small changes in Larkspur's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.
  • Debt per resident is 13.7× 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 Larkspur; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

Regional hub: sales tax per resident is 8.3× the Colorado median.

Sales tax per resident is high, which usually means many non-residents shop, stay or work here. Per-resident figures divide citywide totals by residents only, so they overstate what residents themselves pay and use.

The biggest difference from peers is Utilities & environment: none reported, against a peer median of $1,884 per resident.

Money in

Revenue

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

Peer median of 1 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$1,971
per resident12% below peers
Money out: Larkspur spending per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$1,0963.8×peers $290
$87622.5×peers $39
None reported · peers $1,884$0None reported
None reported · peers $13$0None reported
Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Larkspur 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
Larkspur compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
LarkspurRegional hub: Sales tax per resident is 8.3× the Colorado median.$1,971$7,196$21,407
Brookside$245Not reported for this year$405
Rye$2,242Not reported for this year$1,686
Garden CityRegional hub: Sales tax per resident is 11.9× the Colorado median.$10,217Not reported for this year
Boone$4,724$175Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
GroverUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 24.0% 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.$1,325$1,351$65Not reported for this year$1,565
Peer medianBenchmark unavailable$2,242Benchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailable$1,565

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 $1,971. 1 year withheld.$0$1.1K$2.2K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $2,242Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $1,971FY2016: withheld — Expenditures per resident is 22.8x the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Expenditures per resident is 22.8x the peer median
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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Expenditures per resident is 22.8x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021$1,971$2,242$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
2 years withheld.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 37.9x the peer medianFY2021: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 46.9x the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 37.9x the peer median
  • FY2021 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 46.9x the peer median
Show data table
Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 37.9x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 46.9x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $10,120 to FY2021 $21,407.$0$10.7K$21.4K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $480Peer median FY2021: $1,565Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $10,120FY2021: $21,407

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
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$10,120$480$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021$21,407$1,565$1,411 (199 reporting)

Questions about Larkspur’s finances

How does Larkspur's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Larkspur spent $1,971 per resident in FY2021, 12% below the median of its peers: Brookside, Rye, Garden City, Boone and Grover. See the figure
How much debt does Larkspur have per resident?
Larkspur carried $21,407 of debt per resident in FY2021, 13.7× its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Larkspur compared with?
Larkspur is compared with Brookside, Rye, Garden City, Boone and Grover: 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)
+1.8%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$55.4K
2021 estimate
Poverty rate
13.6%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$133.3K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
5.5%
2021 estimate

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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Larkspur, 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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