Mt. Crested Butte · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

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Gunnison County · Central Mountains & Resort · home rule municipality · Pop. 966 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 964 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021, FY2023

You’re viewing FY2021. See the latest view (FY2023). Latest Census Bureau finance data for Mt. Crested Butte: FY2023. Retrieved Oct 2026. Newer years are added when the Census Bureau publishes them. Why the lag?

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FY2021 in brief

Mt. Crested Butte collected $7,360 per resident, 3.0× the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 72% above its peers. Tax revenue per resident sits 6.3× the state median. Debt per resident runs 84% below peers.

Regional hub: sales tax per resident is 3.9× the Colorado 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)

$7,360

72% above peers

Peer median: $4,286
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: Higher than 93% of the 227 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: +13.4%/yr

How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$11,410

21% above peers

Peer median: $9,439
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: Higher than 98% of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: +12.1%/yr

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$6,746

6.3× CO median

Peer median: Benchmark unavailable
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 97% of the 201 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: Not enough history for a 5-year change

Debt per resident (definition)

$1,473

84% below peers

Peer median: $9,212
CO median · 199 with a published figure Median of the 199 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.: $1,411
Position: Higher than 51% of the 199 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: −10.6%/yr

How Colorado compares on debt per resident

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $7,360

Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

1Metric
$7,360 Total revenue divided by population
= Total revenue ÷ population
Full definition: Revenue per resident
2Inputs
Total revenue $7.1M ÷ population 964 (2021 estimate)
3Census line items
- A50 Housing & community development charges
- A81 Solid waste charges
- C89 State aid
- D89 Local government aid
- T01 Property tax
- T09 General sales tax
- T10 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
- T19 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
- T24 Licenses & permits
- T28 Licenses & permits
- U20 Interest earnings
- U30 Fines & forfeits
- U50 Private donations
- U99 Miscellaneous
4Source 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 964 residents, small changes in Mt. Crested Butte'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 Mt. Crested Butte; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

Regional hub: sales tax per resident is 3.9× 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 Transportation: $2,774 per resident, 2.5× the peer median. On the revenue side, Mt. Crested Butte reports no utility & transit charges; peers collect $1,113 per resident.

Money in

Revenue

$7,360

per resident72% above peers

Money in: Mt. Crested Butte revenue per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
Category	Per resident	Peer median	vs peers	Share of revenue
Peer median unavailable	$3,317	Peer median unavailable	No peer comparison	45%

General sales tax $3,317 General sales and use tax. Census line items T09 General sales tax
Peer median unavailable	$2,237	Peer median unavailable	No peer comparison	30%

Property tax $2,237 Property tax levied by the municipality. Census line items T01 Property tax
Peer median unavailable	$1,192	Peer median unavailable	No peer comparison	16%

Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.) $787 · peers $0 Licenses & permits $405 Lodging, utility, tobacco and other selective sales taxes, licenses and permits, and other taxes. Census line items T10 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.) T19 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.) T24 Licenses & permits T28 Licenses & permits
	$216	$893	76% below peerspeers $893	3%

Local government aid $159 · peers $0 State aid $57 · peers $314 Grants and shared revenue from federal, state and local governments. Census line items C89 State aid D89 Local government aid
	$200	$597	66% below peerspeers $597	3%

Solid waste charges $162 · peers $0 Housing & community development charges $38 · peers $0 Charges for services such as sewer, trash, recreation, parking and airports. Census line items A50 Housing & community development charges A81 Solid waste charges
	$198	$215	8% below peerspeers $215	3%

Miscellaneous $166 · peers $0 Fines & forfeits $16 · peers $6 Interest earnings $15 · peers $7 Private donations $2 · peers $0 Interest earnings, fines, rents, special assessments, donations and sales of property. Census line items U20 Interest earnings U30 Fines & forfeits U50 Private donations U99 Miscellaneous
None reported · peers $1,113	$0	$1,113	None reported	0%

Mt. Crested Butte reported nothing in this category for FY2021. Revenue of city-owned water, electric, gas and transit systems.

Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$11,410

per resident21% above peers

Money out: Mt. Crested Butte spending per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
Category	Per resident	Peer median	vs peers	Share of spending
	$4,355	$3,931	11% above peerspeers $3,931	38%

General government (other) $2,179 · peers $2,324 Financial administration $1,516 · peers $346 Central staff services $389 · peers $103 General public buildings $175 · peers $8 Judicial & legal $95 · peers $29 Administration, finance, legal and courts, public buildings and other general government. Census line items E23 Financial administration E25 Judicial & legal E29 Central staff services E31 General public buildings E89 General government (other) M89 General government (other)
	$2,774	$1,115	2.5× peerspeers $1,115	24%

Streets & highways $1,437 · peers $69 incl. $1,207 construction Transit $1,337 · peers $0 incl. $1,207 construction Streets and highways, transit, parking and airports. Census line items E44 Streets & highways E94 Transit F44 Streets & highways
	$2,406	$1,302	85% above peerspeers $1,302	21%

Housing & community development $2,050 · peers $260 incl. $1,064 construction Parks & recreation $356 · peers $185 incl. $52 construction incl. $1,116 construction Parks and recreation, libraries, housing and community development. Census line items E50 Housing & community development E61 Parks & recreation F50 Housing & community development F61 Parks & recreation
	$1,802	$1,565	15% above peerspeers $1,565	16%

Police $1,328 · peers $1,565 incl. $73 construction Protective inspection & regulation $474 · peers $27 incl. $73 construction Police, fire protection, inspection and corrections. Census line items E62 Police E66 Protective inspection & regulation F62 Police
	$74	$257	71% below peerspeers $257	1%

Interest on debt $74 · peers $257 Interest paid on the municipality's debt. Census line items I89 Interest on debt
None reported · peers $1,397	$0	$1,397	None reported	0%

Mt. Crested Butte reported nothing in this category for FY2021. Water, sewer, solid waste, electric and gas utilities, and natural resources.

Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Mt. Crested Butte 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

Mt. Crested Butte compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
Municipality	Revenue	Expenditures	Tax revenue	Sales tax	Debt
Mt. Crested ButteRegional hub: Sales tax per resident is 3.9× the Colorado median.	$7,360	$11,410	$6,746	$3,317	$1,473
Poncha SpringsUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 28.7% 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.	$2,456	Withheld Poncha Springs · Expenditures per resident · FY2021 Reason: Expenditures per resident is 15% 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 Poncha Springs · Tax revenue per resident · FY2021 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 13% 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 Poncha Springs · Sales tax per resident · FY2021 Reason: Sales tax 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.	Not reported for this year
DillonUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 9.5% 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 10.2× the Colorado median.	$19,877	$15,016	$10,987	$8,751	$16,567
Winter ParkUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 0.6% 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 11.7× the Colorado median.	$20,394	$15,281	Withheld Winter Park · Tax revenue per resident · FY2021 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 7.7x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	$10,094	$23,577
MinturnUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 26.0% 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.Regional hub: Sales tax per resident is 1.5× the Colorado median.	$4,286	$3,861	$1,944	$1,324	$152
Oak CreekUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 53.3% 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.	$4,009	$3,126	Withheld Oak Creek · Tax revenue per resident · FY2021 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 16% 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 Oak Creek · Sales tax per resident · FY2021 Reason: Sales tax per resident is 21% 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.	$1,856
Peer median	$4,286	$9,439	Benchmark unavailable	$8,751	$9,212

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)

Revenue per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2021, FY2023. Peers are matched each year, so the peer median can step when the group changes.

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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$3,931	$3,543	$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021	$7,360	$4,286	$2,476 (227 reporting)
FY2023	$8,532	$14,925	$3,580 (97 reporting, sample year)

Expenditures per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Census definition change: Excludes equipment purchases and payments to other governments, which Census stopped reporting after FY2021.

Peer group changed in FY2021, FY2023. Peers are matched each year, so the peer median can step when the group changes.

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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$6,457	Benchmark unavailable	$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021	$11,410	$9,439	$2,208 (220 reporting)
FY2023	$8,375	$21,607	$3,680 (91 reporting, sample year)

Tax revenue per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 9.0x the peer median

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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 9.0x the peer median)	Benchmark unavailable	$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021	$6,746	Benchmark unavailable	$1,072 (201 reporting)
FY2023	$7,312	$8,217	$1,726 (90 reporting, sample year)

Debt per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2021, FY2023. 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	$2,583	$1,176	$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021	$1,473	$9,212	$1,411 (199 reporting)
FY2023	$1,202	$25,474	$2,130 (91 reporting, sample year)

Questions about Mt. Crested Butte’s finances

How much revenue does Mt. Crested Butte collect per resident?: Mt. Crested Butte collected $7,360 per resident in FY2021, 3.0× the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Mt. Crested Butte's spending per resident compare with similar cities?: Mt. Crested Butte spent $11,410 per resident in FY2021, 21% above the median of its peers: Poncha Springs, Dillon, Winter Park, Minturn and Oak Creek. See the figure
How much debt does Mt. Crested Butte have per resident?: Mt. Crested Butte carried $1,473 of debt per resident in FY2021, 84% below its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Mt. Crested Butte compared with?: Mt. Crested Butte is compared with Poncha Springs, Dillon, Winter Park, Minturn and Oak Creek: 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: $85.6K; 2021 estimate
Poverty rate: 9.9%; 2021 estimate
Median home value: $494.7K; 2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate: 72.9%; 2021 estimate

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Also in Central Mountains & Resort

Minturn$4,343 · FY2023
Dillon$22,632 · FY2022
Blue River$1,525 · FY2016
Oak Creek$4,009 · FY2021
Central City$13,790 · FY2023
Fairplay$5,213 · FY2021
Georgetown$4,210 · FY2021
Winter Park$26,089 · FY2023

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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Mt. Crested Butte · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

FY2021 in brief

FY2021 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

Mt. Crested Butte and its peers

Trends

Questions about Mt. Crested Butte’s finances

Community context

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