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San Luis · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Costilla County · San Luis Valley · statutory town · Pop. 597 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 618 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2021 in brief

San Luis collected $1,744 per resident, 30% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. Tax revenue per resident sits 23% below its peers. Debt per resident runs 26% above 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)

$1,744
21% below peers
Peer median
$2,200
CO median · 227 with a published figure
$2,476
Position
Higher than 28% of the 227 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+14.3%/yr
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$2,208
Position
Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars
Withheld with this year's value

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$718
23% below peers
Peer median
$935
CO median · 201 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 27% of the 201 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Debt per resident (definition)

$589
26% above peers
Peer median
$466
CO median · 199 with a published figure
$1,411
Position
Higher than 23% of the 199 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+28.5%/yr
How Colorado compares on debt per resident

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $1,744
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $1,744 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $1.1M ÷ population 618 (2021 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A89 General government (other) charges
    • C89 State aid
    • D89 Local government aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • U30 Fines & forfeits
    • U50 Private donations
    • U99 Miscellaneous

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • With about 618 residents, small changes in San Luis'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 San Luis; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

On the revenue side, the biggest difference from peers is Intergovernmental: $901 per resident, 2.3× the peer median.

Money in

Revenue

$1,744
per resident21% below peers
Money in: San Luis revenue per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$9012.3×peers $394
$55225% belowpeers $740
$13833% abovepeers $104
$6577% belowpeers $276
$6031% abovepeers $46
$2921% belowpeers $37
None reported · peers $298$0None reported
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

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

Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

San Luis 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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San Luis compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
San Luis$1,744$718$552$589
AntonitoUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 10.2% 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.Regional hub: Sales tax per resident is 1.9× the Colorado median.$2,932$1,726$1,712$1,605$3,664
La JaraUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 14.5% 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.$1,548$1,020$831$691$789
SaguacheUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 13.4% 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.$2,200$1,423$935$740Not reported for this year
NuclaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 40.3% 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.$1,311$1,577$467$369$81
NaturitaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 21.8% 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.$2,797$890$1,317$901$143
Peer median$2,200Benchmark unavailable$935$740$466

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 $896 to FY2021 $1,744.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $928Peer median FY2021: $2,200Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $896FY2021: $1,744

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$896$928$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$1,744$2,200$2,476 (227 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2021 $718. 1 year withheld.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $935Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $718FY2016: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 25% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 25% of the peer median
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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 25% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021$718$935$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $168 to FY2021 $589.$0$705.6$1.4K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $544Peer median FY2021: $466Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $168FY2021: $589

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$168$544$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021$589$466$1,411 (199 reporting)

Questions about San Luis’s finances

How much revenue does San Luis collect per resident?
San Luis collected $1,744 per resident in FY2021, 30% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How much debt does San Luis have per resident?
San Luis carried $589 of debt per resident in FY2021, 26% above its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is San Luis compared with?
San Luis is compared with Antonito, La Jara, Saguache, Nucla and Naturita: 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)
−1.7%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$26.6K
2021 estimate
Poverty rate
28.8%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$95K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
25.1%
2021 estimate

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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: San Luis, 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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