Ophir · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Name: Ophir, CO municipal finance benchmarks
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San Miguel County · Central Mountains & Resort · home rule municipality · Pop. 185 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 195 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

City website (opens in a new tab)

Fiscal yearCompare

FY2021 in brief

Ophir collected $3,282 per resident (including city-run utilities), 33% above the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 12% above its peers. Tax revenue per resident sits 14% above its peers, and 33% above the state 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)

$3,282

12% above peers

Includes city-owned utilities

Peer median: $2,923
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 69% of the 227 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: +11.1%/yr

How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$1,328

60% below peers

Includes city-owned utilities

Peer median: $3,303
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 22% of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: +1.2%/yr

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$1,421

14% above peers

Peer median: $1,245
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 67% of the 201 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: +11.6%/yr

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 · $3,282

Includes Census estimates for 100% of revenue

1Metric
$3,282 Total revenue divided by population
= Total revenue ÷ population
Full definition: Revenue per resident
2Inputs
Total revenue $640K ÷ population 195 (2021 estimate)
3Census line items
- A81 Solid waste charges
- A89 General government (other) charges
- A91 Water utility charges
- C89 State aid
- T01 Property tax
- T09 General sales tax
- T24 Licenses & permits
- U20 Interest earnings
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

Ophir runs city-owned utilities, which add 8.3% 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 195 residents, small changes in Ophir's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.
Part of Ophir's FY2021 revenue is a Census Bureau estimate, not a reported figure. How estimates are handled

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Per resident, FY2021. Bars show Ophir; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is General government: $631 per resident, 60% below the peer median. On the revenue side, intergovernmental is 4.4× peers.

Money in

Revenue

$3,282

per resident12% above peers

Money in: Ophir 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
	$1,462	$336	4.4× peerspeers $336	45%

State aid $1,462 · peers $336 Grants and shared revenue from federal, state and local governments. Includes Census Bureau estimates for this year. Census line items C89 State aid
	$1,333	$261	5.1× peerspeers $261	41%

Property tax $1,333 · peers $261 Property tax levied by the municipality. Includes Census Bureau estimates for this year. Census line items T01 Property tax
	$272	$723	62% below peerspeers $723	8%

Water utility charges $272 · peers $723 Revenue of city-owned water, electric, gas and transit systems. Includes Census Bureau estimates for this year. Census line items A91 Water utility charges
	$123	$514	76% below peerspeers $514	4%

Solid waste charges $113 · peers $0 General government (other) charges $10 · peers $35 Charges for services such as sewer, trash, recreation, parking and airports. Includes Census Bureau estimates for this year. Census line items A81 Solid waste charges A89 General government (other) charges
	$10	$94	89% below peerspeers $94	<1%

Licenses & permits $10 · peers $44 Lodging, utility, tobacco and other selective sales taxes, licenses and permits, and other taxes. Includes Census Bureau estimates for this year. Census line items T24 Licenses & permits
	$5	$47	89% below peerspeers $47	<1%

Interest earnings $5 · peers $0 Interest earnings, fines, rents, special assessments, donations and sales of property. Includes Census Bureau estimates for this year. Census line items U20 Interest earnings
	Withheld Ophir · Sales tax · FY2021 Reason: Sales tax per resident is 8% 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.	$659	Withheldpeers $659	Withheld

General sales tax Withheld Ophir · General sales tax · FY2021 Reason: Sales tax per resident is 8% 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. · peers $659 General sales and use tax. Includes Census Bureau estimates for this year. Census line items T09 General sales tax

Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$1,328

per resident60% below peers

Money out: Ophir 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
	$631	$1,558	60% below peerspeers $1,558	47%

Central staff services $395 · peers $507 Financial administration $123 · peers $0 Judicial & legal $113 · peers $0 Administration, finance, legal and courts, public buildings and other general government. Includes Census Bureau estimates for this year. Census line items E23 Financial administration E25 Judicial & legal E29 Central staff services
	$446	$1,124	60% below peerspeers $1,124	34%

Water utility $318 · peers $579 incl. $113 construction Solid waste $128 · peers $0 incl. $113 construction Water, sewer, solid waste, electric and gas utilities, and natural resources. Includes Census Bureau estimates for this year. Census line items E81 Solid waste E91 Water utility F91 Water utility
	$241	$134	80% above peerspeers $134	18%

Streets & highways $241 · peers $134 Streets and highways, transit, parking and airports. Includes Census Bureau estimates for this year. Census line items E44 Streets & highways
	$10	$18	42% below peerspeers $18	1%

Parks & recreation $10 · peers $18 incl. $10 construction incl. $10 construction Parks and recreation, libraries, housing and community development. Includes Census Bureau estimates for this year. Census line items F61 Parks & recreation
None reported · peers $35	$0	$35	None reported	0%

Ophir reported nothing in this category for FY2021. Interest paid on the municipality's debt.

Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Ophir 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

Ophir compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
Municipality	Revenue	Expenditures	Tax revenue	Sales tax	Debt
OphirUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 8.3% 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.	$3,282	$1,328	$1,421	Withheld Ophir · Sales tax per resident · FY2021 Reason: Sales tax per resident is 8% 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
Silver PlumeUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 13.5% 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.	$2,874	$3,930	$1,337	$920	Not reported for this year
MarbleUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 5.0% 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.	$2,341	$1,957	Withheld Marble · Tax revenue per resident · FY2021 Reason: Tax revenue 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.	Not reported for this year	$1,833
Red CliffUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 42.6% 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.	$2,972	$3,303	$1,189	$398	$516
EmpireUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 32.2% 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.	$3,292	$2,484	$1,245	$1,062	Not reported for this year
Peer median	$2,923	$3,303	$1,245	Benchmark unavailable	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)

Revenue per resident

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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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$1,938	$1,016	$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021	$3,282	$2,923	$2,476 (227 reporting)

Expenditures per resident

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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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$1,249	$972	$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021	$1,328	$3,303	$2,208 (220 reporting)

Tax revenue per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$819	Benchmark unavailable	$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021	$1,421	$1,245	$1,072 (201 reporting)

Questions about Ophir’s finances

How much revenue does Ophir collect per resident?: Ophir collected $3,282 per resident in FY2021, 33% above the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Ophir's spending per resident compare with similar cities?: Ophir spent $1,328 per resident in FY2021, 60% below the median of its peers: Silver Plume, Marble, Red Cliff and Empire. See the figure
Which cities is Ophir compared with?: Ophir is compared with Silver Plume, Marble, Red Cliff and Empire: 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): +2.0%/yr; 2021 estimate
Median household income: $109.5K; 2021 estimate
Poverty rate: 7.6%; 2021 estimate
Median home value: $595K; 2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate: 0.0%; 2021 estimate

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Also in Central Mountains & Resort

Silver Plume$2,874 · FY2021
Marble$2,341 · FY2021
Red Cliff$2,972 · FY2021
Black Hawk
Pitkin$1,737 · FY2021
Montezuma$1,027 · FY2021
Alma$2,983 · FY2021
Empire$3,292 · 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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Ophir · 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

Ophir and its peers

Trends

Questions about Ophir’s finances

Community context

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Also in Central Mountains & Resort

Sources

General government is Ophir’s largest difference from its peers (60% below the peer median in FY2021). See how that line moves month to month in your own budget-vs-actual.