Sedgwick · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Name: Sedgwick, CO municipal finance benchmarks
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Sedgwick County · Eastern Plains · statutory town · Pop. 162 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 169 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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Fiscal yearCompare

FY2021 in brief

Debt per resident runs 21% below the state median.

Regional hub: sales tax per resident is 9.7× the Colorado median.

Revenue per resident withheld: Revenue per resident is 8.1x the peer median
Tax revenue per resident withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 58.6x the peer median

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

Compared with

Nearest on population, household income and region

Revenue per resident (definition)

Peer median: Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 227 with a published figure Median of the 227 Colorado municipalities with FY2021 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $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)

$1,509

17% below peers

Peer median: $1,808
CO median · 220 with a published figure Median of the 220 Colorado municipalities with FY2021 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $2,208
Position: Higher than 29% of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: −11.7%/yr

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

Peer median: Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 201 with a published figure Median of the 201 Colorado municipalities with FY2021 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $1,072
Position: Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars: Withheld with this year's value

Debt per resident (definition)

$1,118

21% below CO median

Peer median: Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 199 with a published figure Median of the 199 Colorado municipalities with FY2021 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $1,411
Position: Higher than 42% 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

1Withheld
Revenue per resident is 8.1x the peer median It stays withheld until it is verified against Sedgwick’s audited financial report.
2Census line items
- A80 Sewer charges
- A81 Solid waste charges
- A91 Water utility charges
- T01 Property tax
- T09 General sales tax
- U99 Miscellaneous
3Source file
- Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2022 - Individual Unit File
  Value for
  FY2021
  Survey file
  2022
  The 2022 Census survey covers fiscal years ending July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022, so a fiscal year ending December 31, 2021 is FY2021.
  Retrieved October 12, 2026 · View source: Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2022 - Individual Unit File (opens in a new tab)
- Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 - incorporated places
  Value for
  FY2021
  Source year
  2025
  Retrieved October 7, 2026 · View source: Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 - incorporated places (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers mean

With about 169 residents, small changes in Sedgwick'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 Sedgwick; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

Regional hub: sales tax per resident is 9.7× the Colorado median.

Sales tax per resident is high, which usually means many non-residents shop, stay or work here. Per-resident figures divide citywide totals by residents only, so they overstate what residents themselves pay and use.

The biggest difference from peers is General government: $1,095 per resident, 4.6× the peer median.

Money in

Revenue

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

Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$1,509

per resident17% below peers

Money out: Sedgwick spending per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
Category	Per resident	Peer median	vs peers	Share of spending
	$1,095	$240	4.6× peerspeers $240	73%

General government (other) $479 · peers $109 Central staff services $473 · peers $32 Financial administration $142 · peers $0 Administration, finance, legal and courts, public buildings and other general government. Census line items E23 Financial administration E29 Central staff services E89 General government (other)
	$237	$763	69% below peerspeers $763	16%

Water utility $160 · peers $372 Sewer $47 · peers $276 Solid waste $30 · peers $0 Water, sewer, solid waste, electric and gas utilities, and natural resources. Census line items E80 Sewer E81 Solid waste E91 Water utility
	$101	$0	No peer comparisonpeers $0	7%

Parks & recreation $101 · peers $0 Parks and recreation, libraries, housing and community development. Census line items E61 Parks & recreation
	$47	$0	No peer comparisonpeers $0	3%

Interest on debt $47 · peers $0 Interest paid on the municipality's debt. Includes Census Bureau estimates for this year. Census line items I89 Interest on debt
	$30	$205	86% below peerspeers $205	2%

Toll highways $30 · peers $0 incl. $18 construction incl. $18 construction Streets and highways, transit, parking and airports. Census line items E45 Toll highways F45 Toll highways

Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Sedgwick 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

Open in Compare

Sedgwick compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
Municipality	Revenue	Expenditures	Tax revenue	Sales tax	Debt
SedgwickRegional hub: Sales tax per resident is 9.7× the Colorado median.	Withheld Sedgwick · Revenue per resident · FY2021 Reason: Revenue per resident is 8.1x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	$1,509	Withheld Sedgwick · Tax revenue per resident · FY2021 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 58.6x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	$8,373	$1,118
BethuneUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 25.4% 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.	$1,168	Withheld Bethune · Expenditures per resident · FY2021 Reason: Expenditures per resident is 33% of the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	Withheld Bethune · Tax revenue per resident · FY2021 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 16% of the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	Not reported for this year	$1,011
SeibertUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 22.3% 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.	$2,087	$1,808	Withheld Seibert · Tax revenue per resident · FY2021 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 5.2x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	$622	$372
GenoaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 37.0% 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.	$1,109	$1,244	$244	Not reported for this year	Not 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	$53	Not reported for this year	Not reported for this year
CrookUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 33.3% 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.	$893	Withheld Crook · Expenditures per resident · FY2021 Reason: Expenditures per resident is 6% of the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	$145	Not reported for this year	Not reported for this year
Peer median	Benchmark unavailable	$1,808	Benchmark unavailable	Benchmark unavailable	Benchmark unavailable

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

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

FY2021 withheld: Revenue per resident is 8.1x the peer median

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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$3,218	$1,794	$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021	Withheld (Revenue per resident is 8.1x the peer median)	Benchmark unavailable	$2,476 (227 reporting)

Expenditures per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$2,810	Benchmark unavailable	$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021	$1,509	$1,808	$2,208 (220 reporting)

Tax revenue per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 15.6x the peer median
FY2021 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 58.6x the peer median

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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 15.6x the peer median)	Benchmark unavailable	$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021	Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 58.6x the peer median)	Benchmark unavailable	$1,072 (201 reporting)

Debt per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	—	—	—
FY2021	$1,118	Benchmark unavailable	$1,411 (199 reporting)

Questions about Sedgwick’s finances

How does Sedgwick's spending per resident compare with similar cities?: Sedgwick spent $1,509 per resident in FY2021, 17% below the median of its peers: Bethune, Seibert, Genoa, Crowley and Crook. See the figure
How much debt does Sedgwick have per resident?: Sedgwick carried $1,118 of debt per resident in FY2021, 21% below the Colorado median. See the figure
Which cities is Sedgwick compared with?: Sedgwick is compared with Bethune, Seibert, Genoa, Crowley and Crook: 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): +2.8%/yr; 2021 estimate
Median household income: $37K; 2021 estimate
Poverty rate: 11.4%; 2021 estimate
Median home value: $95K; 2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate: 34.3%; 2021 estimate

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Also in Eastern Plains

Genoa$1,109 · FY2021
Crowley$2,374 · FY2021
Seibert$2,087 · FY2021
Bethune$1,168 · FY2021
Crook$893 · FY2021
Peetz$646 · FY2016
Arriba$1,182 · FY2021
Pritchett$1,164 · FY2022

Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2017-2021 · 2021
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 7, 2026View source: American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2017-2021 (opens in a new tab)
Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2022 - Individual Unit File · 2022 survey file
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 12, 2026View source: Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2022 - Individual Unit File (opens in a new tab)
Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 - incorporated places · 2025
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 7, 2026View source: Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 - incorporated places (opens in a new tab)

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Sedgwick · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

FY2021 in brief

FY2021 headline figures

Revenue per resident (definition)

Expenditures per resident (definition)

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

Debt per resident (definition)

How this number was calculated

What the numbers mean

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Money in

Money out

Sedgwick and its peers

Trends

Questions about Sedgwick’s finances

Community context

Explore further

Also in Eastern Plains

Sources

General government is Sedgwick’s largest difference from its peers (4.6× the peer median in FY2021). See how that line moves month to month in your own budget-vs-actual.