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Nederland · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Boulder County · Denver Metro · statutory town · Pop. 1,463 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 1,504 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2017, FY2021

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

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FY2021 in brief

Nederland collected $3,649 per resident (including city-run utilities), 47% above the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 19% above its peers. Tax revenue per resident sits 22% above its peers, and 84% above the state median. Debt per resident runs 67% below peers.

Regional hub: sales tax per resident is 1.7× the Colorado 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)

$3,649
19% above peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$3,075
CO median · 227 with a published figure
$2,476
Position
Higher than 74% of the 227 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+8.0%/yr
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$2,463
81% above peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$1,363
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$2,208
Position
Higher than 59% of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
−4.4%/yr

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$1,971
22% above peers
Peer median
$1,619
CO median · 201 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 81% of the 201 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+8.5%/yr

Debt per resident (definition)

$432
67% below peers
Peer median
$1,300
CO median · 199 with a published figure
$1,411
Position
Higher than 18% of the 199 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
−34.4%/yr
How Colorado compares on debt per resident

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $3,649
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $3,649 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $5.5M ÷ population 1,504 (2021 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A03 Commercial activities (other) charges
    • A44 Streets & highways charges
    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • C89 State aid
    • D89 Local government aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T20 Licenses & permits
    • T21 Licenses & permits
    • T24 Licenses & permits
    • T28 Licenses & permits
    • T29 Licenses & permits
    • U99 Miscellaneous

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Nederland runs city-owned utilities, which add 13.6% of its revenue. Cities that don't run utilities will look lower on revenue and spending per resident for that reason alone. What counts as utility revenue
  • With about 1,504 residents, small changes in Nederland'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 Nederland; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

Regional hub: sales tax per resident is 1.7× 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 General government: $1,016 per resident, 69% above the peer median. On the revenue side, sales tax is 78% above peers.

Money in

Revenue

$3,649
per resident19% above peers
Money in: Nederland revenue per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$1,46878% abovepeers $824
$56823% abovepeers $461
$497in line withpeers $498
$39311% abovepeers $354
$37528% belowpeers $523
$23923% abovepeers $193
$11059% belowpeers $265
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$2,463
per resident81% above peers
Money out: Nederland spending per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$1,01669% abovepeers $599
$57016% belowpeers $677
Peer median unavailable$473No peer comparison
$3883.6×peers $108
$1049% belowpeers $20
$680% belowpeers $30
None reported · peers $5$0None reported
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Nederland 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

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Nederland compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
NederlandUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 13.6% 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 1.7× the Colorado median.$3,649$2,463$1,971$1,468$432
Deer TrailUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 42.4% 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.$1,174$1,155Not reported for this year$1,781
LyonsUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 29.3% 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.$7,153$5,472$1,332$850$2,192
KeenesburgUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 31.4% 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.$6,132$2,928$1,907$824$820
KerseyUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 9.3% 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.$2,476$1,363$1,014$681$665
Columbine Valley$3,075$1,276$2,566$1,172Not reported for this year
Peer median$3,075$1,363$1,619$837$1,300

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
FY2016 $2,488 to FY2021 $3,649.$0$1.8K$3.6K’16’17’21Peer median FY2016: $1,124Peer median FY2017: $2,824Peer median FY2021: $3,075Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $2,488FY2017: $2,640FY2021: $3,649

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2017, FY2021. 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
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$2,488$1,124$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2017$2,640$2,824$2,694 (35 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$3,649$3,075$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $3,088 to FY2021 $2,463.$0$1.5K$3.1K’16’17’21Peer median FY2016: $1,534Peer median FY2017: $2,769Peer median FY2021: $1,363Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $3,088FY2017: $2,286FY2021: $2,463

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2017, FY2021. 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
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$3,088$1,534$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2017$2,286$2,769$2,663 (35 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$2,463$1,363$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $1,313 to FY2021 $1,971.$0$985.4$2K’16’17’21Peer median FY2016: $407Peer median FY2017: $706Peer median FY2021: $1,619Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,313FY2017: $1,505FY2021: $1,971

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2017, FY2021. Peers are matched each year, so the peer median can step when the group changes.

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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$1,313$407$705 (193 reporting)
FY2017$1,505$706$1,098 (34 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$1,971$1,619$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $3,547 to FY2021 $432.$0$1.8K$3.5K’16’17’21Peer median FY2016: $1,352Peer median FY2017: $1,062Peer median FY2021: $1,300Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $3,547FY2017: $3,307FY2021: $432

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2017, 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$3,547$1,352$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2017$3,307$1,062$1,482 (34 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$432$1,300$1,411 (199 reporting)

Questions about Nederland’s finances

How much revenue does Nederland collect per resident?
Nederland collected $3,649 per resident in FY2021, 47% above the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Nederland's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Nederland spent $2,463 per resident in FY2021, 81% above the median of its peers: Deer Trail, Lyons, Keenesburg, Kersey and Columbine Valley. See the figure
How much debt does Nederland have per resident?
Nederland carried $432 of debt per resident in FY2021, 67% below its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Nederland compared with?
Nederland is compared with Deer Trail, Lyons, Keenesburg, Kersey and Columbine Valley: 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)
−0.6%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$101.9K
2021 estimate
Poverty rate
5.2%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$510.2K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
6.7%
2021 estimate

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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Nederland, 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

General government is Nederland’s largest difference from its peers (69% above the peer median in FY2021). See how that line moves month to month in your own budget-vs-actual.

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