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Sanford · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

Conejos County · San Luis Valley · home rule municipality · Pop. 897 (2025 estimate); FY2016 per-resident figures use 878 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

You’re viewing FY2016. See the latest view (FY2021). Latest Census Bureau finance data for Sanford: 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 8% below peers.

  • Revenue per resident withheld: Revenue per resident is 4.6x the peer median
  • Tax revenue per resident withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 12.3x 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)

Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 193 with a published figure
$705
Position
Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars
Withheld with this year's value

Debt per resident (definition)

$899
8% below peers
Peer median
$976
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 45% 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 4.6x the peer median It stays withheld until it is verified against Sanford’s audited financial report.

  2. 2Census line items

    • C46 State aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T16 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T28 Licenses & permits
    • U20 Interest earnings

  3. 3Source file

What the numbers mean

  • With about 878 residents, small changes in Sanford's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.

Where the money comes from and where it goes

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

Money in

Revenue

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

Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 196 reporting

Sanford 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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Sanford compared with its peer municipalities, FY2016, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
Sanford$899
La JaraUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 19.1% 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.$1,094$539$475$381$979
Manassa$973
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
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
Peer medianBenchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailable$976

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)
Tax revenue per resident
2 years withheld.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 12.3x the peer medianFY2021: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 5% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 12.3x the peer median
  • FY2021 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 5% of the peer median
Show data table
Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 12.3x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 5% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $899.$0$536.2$1.1K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $976Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $899

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Show data table
Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$899$976$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021———

Questions about Sanford’s finances

How much debt does Sanford have per resident?
Sanford carried $899 of debt per resident in FY2016, 8% below its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Sanford compared with?
Sanford is compared with La Jara, Manassa, Oak Creek and Ridgway: 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)
−0.2%/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: Sanford, 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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