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Rockvale · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

Fremont County · Southern Colorado · statutory town · Pop. 530 (2025 estimate); FY2016 per-resident figures use 489 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2016 in brief

Debt per resident runs 4.0× peers.

  • Revenue per resident withheld: Revenue per resident is 27.8x the peer median

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)

Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 224 with a published figure
$1,746
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)

Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 196 with a published figure
$1,749
Position
Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars
Withheld with this year's value

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

Debt per resident (definition)

$4,861
4.0× peers
Peer median
$1,204
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 92% 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 ·
Withheld pending verification

  1. 1Withheld

    Revenue per resident is 27.8x the peer median It stays withheld until it is verified against Rockvale’s audited financial report.

  2. 2Census line items

    • C30 State aid
    • C46 State aid
    • C91 State aid
    • C92 State aid

  3. 3Source file

What the numbers mean

  • With about 489 residents, small changes in Rockvale's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.
  • Debt per resident is 4.0× the peer median. One large bond issue can do this; check the city's annual financial report for what it funded.

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Per resident, FY2016. Bars show Rockvale; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

Money in

Revenue

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

Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 224 reporting

Money out

Spending

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

Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 196 reporting

Rockvale 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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Rockvale compared with its peer municipalities, FY2016, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
RockvaleNot reported for this yearNot reported for this year$4,861
WilliamsburgUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 75.8% 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.$501$429$1,192
NunnUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 20.1% 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.$1,832$1,861$600$108$1,215
Mountain ViewUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 23.2% 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.$937Not reported for this year$177
Victor$3,260$383$111$2,120
Peer medianBenchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailableNot reported for this yearNot reported for this year$1,204

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 $1,222. 1 year withheld.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $1,838Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $1,222FY2016: withheld — Revenue per resident is 27.8x the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Revenue per resident is 27.8x the peer median
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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Revenue per resident is 27.8x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$1,222$1,838$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2021 $926. 1 year withheld.$0$1.1K$2.2K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $1,637Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $926FY2016: withheld — Expenditures per resident is 21.0x the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Expenditures per resident is 21.0x the peer median
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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Expenditures per resident is 21.0x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021$926$1,637$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
1 year withheld.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 16% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2021 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 16% of the peer median
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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016———
FY2021Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 16% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $4,861 to FY2021 $360.$0$2.4K$4.9K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $1,204Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $4,861FY2021: $360

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$4,861$1,204$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021$360Benchmark unavailable$1,411 (199 reporting)

Questions about Rockvale’s finances

How much debt does Rockvale have per resident?
Rockvale carried $4,861 of debt per resident in FY2016, 4.0× its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Rockvale compared with?
Rockvale is compared with Williamsburg, Nunn, Mountain View and Victor: 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)
+0.0%/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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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Rockvale, 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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