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Peetz · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Logan County · Eastern Plains · statutory town · Pop. 202 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 211 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

You’re viewing FY2021. See the latest view (FY2016). Latest Census Bureau finance data for Peetz: FY2021. Retrieved Oct 2026. Newer years are added when the Census Bureau publishes them. Why the lag?

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FY2021 in brief

Debt per resident runs 29% below the state median.

  • Revenue per resident withheld: Revenue per resident is 6.1x the peer median
  • Tax revenue per resident withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 8% of the peer 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)

Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 227 with a published figure
$2,476
Position
Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars
Withheld with this year's value
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$2,431
84% above peers
Peer median
$1,319
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$2,208
Position
Higher than 58% of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+17.6%/yr

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 201 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars
Withheld with this year's value

Debt per resident (definition)

$995
29% below CO median
Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 199 with a published figure
$1,411
Position
Higher than 39% of the 199 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change
How Colorado compares on debt per resident

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident ·
Withheld pending verification

  1. 1Withheld

    Revenue per resident is 6.1x the peer median It stays withheld until it is verified against Peetz’s audited financial report.

  2. 2Census line items

    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A81 Solid waste charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • B89 Federal aid
    • C89 State aid
    • T99 Other taxes
    • U20 Interest earnings
    • U40 Rents
    • U50 Private donations

  3. 3Source file

What the numbers mean

  • With about 211 residents, small changes in Peetz'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 Peetz; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is Utilities & environment: $2,014 per resident, 2.3× the peer median.

Money in

Revenue

Categories are withheld with the total until it is verified against Peetz’s audited financial report.

Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$2,431
per resident84% above peers
Money out: Peetz spending per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$2,0142.3×peers $867
$35190% abovepeers $185
$4722.1×peers $2
$192.2×peers $9
None reported · peers $97$0None reported
Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Peetz 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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Peetz compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
Peetz$2,431Not reported for this year$995
CherawUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 9.7% 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.$1,687$1,687$112Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
IliffUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 36.1% 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.$837$78Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
Kit CarsonUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 52.0% 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.$1,091$461$217Not reported for this year
CrowleyUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 13.1% 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.$2,374$1,854$53Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
MerinoUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 35.0% 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.$1,106$951$176Not reported for this year$894
Peer medianBenchmark unavailable$1,319Benchmark unavailableNot reported for this yearBenchmark unavailable

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 $646. 1 year withheld.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $977Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $646FY2021: withheld — Revenue per resident is 6.1x the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2021 withheld: Revenue per resident is 6.1x the peer median
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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$646$977$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Revenue per resident is 6.1x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $1,079 to FY2021 $2,431.$0$1.2K$2.4K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $965Peer median FY2021: $1,319Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,079FY2021: $2,431

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
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$1,079$965$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021$2,431$1,319$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $179. 1 year withheld.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $103Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $179FY2021: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 8% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2021 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 8% of the peer median
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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$179$103$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 8% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2021 $995.$0$705.6$1.4K’16’21Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $995

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016———
FY2021$995Benchmark unavailable$1,411 (199 reporting)

Questions about Peetz’s finances

How does Peetz's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Peetz spent $2,431 per resident in FY2021, 84% above the median of its peers: Cheraw, Iliff, Kit Carson, Crowley and Merino. See the figure
How much debt does Peetz have per resident?
Peetz carried $995 of debt per resident in FY2021, 29% below the Colorado median. See the figure
Which cities is Peetz compared with?
Peetz is compared with Cheraw, Iliff, Kit Carson, Crowley and Merino: 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)
−2.5%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$49.1K
2021 estimate
Poverty rate
7.0%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$113.8K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
12.2%
2021 estimate

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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Peetz, 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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