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Moffat · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

Saguache County · San Luis Valley · statutory town · Pop. 102 (2025 estimate); FY2016 per-resident figures use 122 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2016 in brief

Moffat collected $434 per resident, 75% below the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 54% below its peers.

  • Tax revenue per resident withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 3.0x the peer median

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

Compared with

Nearest on population, household income and region

FY2016 headline figures

Revenue per resident (definition)

$434
54% below peers
Peer median
$951
CO median · 224 with a published figure
$1,746
Position
Higher than 1% of the 224 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$270
85% below CO median
Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 196 with a published figure
$1,749
Position
Higher than 3% of the 196 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 193 with a published figure
$705
Position
Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars
Withheld with this year's value

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $434
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $434 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $53K ÷ population 122 (2016 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • C89 State aid
    • D89 Local government aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T19 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • With about 122 residents, small changes in Moffat'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 Moffat; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

On the revenue side, the biggest difference from peers is Fees & charges: none reported, against a peer median of $457 per resident.

Money in

Revenue

$434
per resident54% below peers
Money in: Moffat revenue per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$82No peer comparisonpeers $0
None reported · peers $457$0None reported
None reported · peers $220$0None reported
None reported · peers $165$0None reported
Withheldpeers $0
Withheld
Withheldpeers $0
Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 224 reporting

Money out

Spending

$270
per resident
Money out: Moffat spending per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
Peer median unavailable$123No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$74No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$66No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$8No peer comparison
None reported$0None reported
None reported$0None reported
Peer median of 2 peers · Colorado median of 196 reporting

Moffat 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
Moffat compared with its peer municipalities, FY2016, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
Moffat$434$270$270Not reported for this year
HooperUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 22.9% 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.$914$200Not reported for this year$171
MarbleUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 23.1% 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.$1,016$203Not reported for this year$195
RomeoUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 23.1% 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.$951Not reported for this year$178
Peer median$951Benchmark unavailableBenchmark 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.

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 $434 to FY2021 $3,467.$0$1.7K$3.5K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $951Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $434FY2021: $3,467

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$434$951$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$3,467Benchmark unavailable$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $270. 1 year withheld.$0$1.1K$2.2K’16’21Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $270FY2021: withheld — Expenditures per resident is 23% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2021 withheld: Expenditures per resident is 23% of the peer median
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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$270Benchmark unavailable$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Expenditures per resident is 23% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
1 year withheld.$0$352.6$705.1’16’21Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)FY2016: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 3.0x the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 3.0x the peer median
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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 3.0x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021———

Questions about Moffat’s finances

How much revenue does Moffat collect per resident?
Moffat collected $434 per resident in FY2016, 75% below the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Moffat's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Moffat spent $270 per resident in FY2016, 85% below the Colorado median. There was no peer group to compare with that year. See the figure
Which cities is Moffat compared with?
Moffat is compared with Hooper, Marble and Romeo: 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)
+0.8%/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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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Moffat, 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.

Every figure on this page is read from the published index; nothing is recalculated for display. Read the methodology

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