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Ridgway · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

Ouray County · Western Slope · home rule municipality · Pop. 1,324 (2025 estimate); FY2016 per-resident figures use 953 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2016 in brief

Ridgway collected $2,373 per resident (including city-run utilities), 36% above the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 14% below its peers. Tax revenue per resident sits 92% above the state median. Debt per resident runs 10% below peers.

Generated from the figures below. Every number links to its Census source.

Compared with

Nearest on population, household income and region

FY2016 headline figures

Revenue per resident (definition)

$2,373
14% below peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$2,763
CO median · 224 with a published figure
$1,746
Position
Higher than 67% of the 224 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$1,940
16% below peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$2,307
CO median · 196 with a published figure
$1,749
Position
Higher than 55% of the 196 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$1,352
92% above CO median
Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 193 with a published figure
$705
Position
Higher than 82% of the 193 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Debt per resident (definition)

$775
10% below peers
Peer median
$864
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 40% of the 220 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 · $2,373
Includes Census estimates for 100% of revenue

  1. 1Metric

    $2,373 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $2.3M ÷ population 953 (2016 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • C46 State aid
    • C50 State aid
    • C80 State aid
    • C89 State aid
    • C91 State aid
    • D46 Local government aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T16 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T19 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T20 Licenses & permits
    • T24 Licenses & permits
    • T28 Licenses & permits
    • T29 Licenses & permits
    • U01 Special assessments
    • U20 Interest earnings
    • U30 Fines & forfeits
    • U40 Rents

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Ridgway runs city-owned utilities, which add 14.8% 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 953 residents, small changes in Ridgway's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.
  • Part of Ridgway's FY2016 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, FY2016. Bars show Ridgway; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is General government: $437 per resident, 39% below the peer median. On the revenue side, intergovernmental is 60% below peers.

Money in

Revenue

$2,373
per resident14% below peers
Money in: Ridgway revenue per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
Peer median unavailable$779No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$416No peer comparison
$35024% belowpeers $461
$30960% belowpeers $779
$28525% belowpeers $381
Peer median unavailable$157No peer comparison
$7786% abovepeers $41
Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 224 reporting

Money out

Spending

$1,940
per resident16% below peers
Money out: Ridgway spending per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$75410% abovepeers $683
$43739% belowpeers $721
Peer median unavailable$267No peer comparison
$2447.3×peers $34
$19933% abovepeers $149
$395% abovepeers $37
Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 196 reporting

Ridgway 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, FY2016. How peers are chosen

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Ridgway compared with its peer municipalities, FY2016, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
RidgwayUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 14.8% of total revenue in FY2016. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.$2,373$1,940$1,352$779$775
ParachuteUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 12.3% of total revenue in FY2016. 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 1.6× the Colorado median.$2,763$2,401$1,290$912$408
Oak CreekUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 37.0% of total revenue in FY2016. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.$3,543$1,923$2,165
HotchkissUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 25.5% of total revenue in FY2016. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.$1,807$2,307$813$602$829
Peer median$2,763$2,307Benchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailable$864

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 $2,373 to FY2021 $3,618.$0$1.8K$3.6K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $2,763Peer median FY2021: $2,975Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $2,373FY2021: $3,618

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
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$2,373$2,763$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$3,618$2,975$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $1,940 to FY2021 $2,481.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $2,307Peer median FY2021: $2,158Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,940FY2021: $2,481

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$1,940$2,307$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021$2,481$2,158$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $1,352 to FY2021 $2,053.$0$1K$2.1K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $1,639Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,352FY2021: $2,053

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$1,352Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021$2,053$1,639$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $775 to FY2021 $1,371.$0$2.7K$5.3K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $864Peer median FY2021: $5,312Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $775FY2021: $1,371

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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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$775$864$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021$1,371$5,312$1,411 (199 reporting)

Questions about Ridgway’s finances

How much revenue does Ridgway collect per resident?
Ridgway collected $2,373 per resident in FY2016, 36% above the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Ridgway's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Ridgway spent $1,940 per resident in FY2016, 16% below the median of its peers: Parachute, Oak Creek and Hotchkiss. See the figure
How much debt does Ridgway have per resident?
Ridgway carried $775 of debt per resident in FY2016, 10% below its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Ridgway compared with?
Ridgway is compared with Parachute, Oak Creek and Hotchkiss: 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)
+1.5%/yr
2016 estimate
Median household income
Not reported for this year
Poverty rate
Not reported for this year
Median home value
Not reported for this year
Housing vacancy rate
Not reported for this year

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Sources

Dataset: Ridgway, 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

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