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Sheridan Lake · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Kiowa County · Eastern Plains · statutory town · Pop. 56 (2025 estimate) · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2021 in brief

Sheridan Lake collected $446 per resident, 82% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 50% below its peers. Tax revenue per resident sits 51% below its peers, and 93% below the state median.

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)

$446
50% below peers
Peer median
$893
CO median · 227 with a published figure
$2,476
Position
Higher than 1% of the 227 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
−15.1%/yr
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$304
63% below peers
Peer median
$831
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$2,208
Position
Lowest of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+6.4%/yr

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$71
51% below peers
Peer median
$145
CO median · 201 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 2% of the 201 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
−8.5%/yr

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $446
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $446 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $25K ÷ population 56 (2021 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • B89 Federal aid
    • C89 State aid
    • T01 Property tax

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • With about 56 residents, small changes in Sheridan Lake'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 Sheridan Lake; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is Utilities & environment: none reported, against a peer median of $437 per resident. On the revenue side, Sheridan Lake reports no utility & transit charges; peers collect $366 per resident.

Money in

Revenue

$446
per resident50% below peers
Money in: Sheridan Lake revenue per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$3754.2×peers $89
$7129% belowpeers $101
None reported · peers $366$0None reported
None reported · peers $107$0None reported
None reported · peers $54$0None reported
None reported · peers $21$0None reported
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$304
per resident63% below peers
Money out: Sheridan Lake spending per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$21469% abovepeers $127
$8927% abovepeers $70
None reported · peers $437$0None reported
None reported · peers $14$0None reported
Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Sheridan Lake 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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Sheridan Lake compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
Sheridan Lake$446$304$71Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
PaoliUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 66.7% 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.$420Not reported for this yearNot reported for this yearNot reported for this yearNot reported for this year
HaswellUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 43.8% 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.$1,028$831$99Not reported for this year$310
VonaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 28.1% 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.$1,659$1,193Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
PritchettUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 44.1% 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.$830$804$214Not reported for this year$1,714
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$145Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
Peer median$893$831$145Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year

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
FY2016 $1,012 to FY2021 $446.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $819Peer median FY2021: $893Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,012FY2021: $446

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$1,012$819$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$446$893$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $222 to FY2021 $304.$0$1.1K$2.2K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $1,519Peer median FY2021: $831Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $222FY2021: $304

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$222$1,519$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021$304$831$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $111 to FY2021 $71.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $145Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $111FY2021: $71

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$111Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021$71$145$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $185.$0$536.2$1.1K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $587Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $185

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$185$587$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021———

Questions about Sheridan Lake’s finances

How much revenue does Sheridan Lake collect per resident?
Sheridan Lake collected $446 per resident in FY2021, 82% below the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Sheridan Lake's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Sheridan Lake spent $304 per resident in FY2021, 63% below the median of its peers: Paoli, Haswell, Vona, Pritchett and Crook. See the figure
Which cities is Sheridan Lake compared with?
Sheridan Lake is compared with Paoli, Haswell, Vona, Pritchett 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)
−7.1%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$45K
2021 estimate
Poverty rate
19.6%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$60K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
20.0%
2021 estimate

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Sources

Dataset: Sheridan Lake, 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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