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Paoli · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Phillips County · Eastern Plains · statutory town · Pop. 48 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 50 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2021 in brief

Paoli collected $420 per resident (including city-run utilities), 83% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 55% below its peers.

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)

$420
55% below peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$929
CO median · 227 with a published figure
$2,476
Position
Higher than 1% of the 227 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

Not reported for this year
Includes city-owned utilities
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

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

Not reported for this year
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 this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $420
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $420 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $21K ÷ population 50 (2021 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • U40 Rents

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Paoli runs city-owned utilities, which add 66.7% 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 50 residents, small changes in Paoli'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 Paoli; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

On the revenue side, the biggest difference from peers is Intergovernmental: none reported, against a peer median of $286 per resident.

Money in

Revenue

$420
per resident55% below peers
Money in: Paoli revenue per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$28031% belowpeers $408
$10013% abovepeers $89
$4049% belowpeers $78
None reported · peers $286$0None reported
None reported · peers $71$0None reported
None reported · peers $42$0None reported
Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

No spending breakdown is available for FY2021.

Paoli 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
Paoli compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
PaoliUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 66.7% 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.$420Not reported for this yearNot reported for this yearNot reported for this yearNot reported for this year
Sheridan Lake$446$304$71Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
HaswellUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 43.8% 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.$1,028$831$99Not reported for this year$310
VonaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 28.1% 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.$1,659$1,193Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
PritchettUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 44.1% 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.$830$804$214Not reported for this year$1,714
Peer median$929Not reported for this yearNot reported for this yearNot reported for this yearNot 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
FY2021 $420. 1 year withheld.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $929Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $420FY2016: withheld — Revenue per resident is 11.5x the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Revenue per resident is 11.5x the peer median
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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Revenue per resident is 11.5x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$420$929$2,476 (227 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 81.2x the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 81.2x the peer median
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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 81.2x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021———
Debt per resident
FY2016 $2,882.$0$1.4K$2.9K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $552Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $2,882

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$2,882$552$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021———

Questions about Paoli’s finances

How much revenue does Paoli collect per resident?
Paoli collected $420 per resident in FY2021, 83% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
Which cities is Paoli compared with?
Paoli is compared with Sheridan Lake, Haswell, Vona and Pritchett: 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)
+8.0%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
Not reported for this year
Poverty rate
54.3%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$112.5K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
16.0%
2021 estimate

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Sources

Dataset: Paoli, 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.

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