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Silver Cliff · FY2022 municipal finance benchmarks

Custer County · Southern Colorado · statutory town · Pop. 713 (2025 estimate); FY2022 per-resident figures use 690 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2018, FY2019, FY2020, FY2021, FY2022

Latest Census Bureau finance data for Silver Cliff: FY2022. Retrieved Oct 2026. Newer years are added when the Census Bureau publishes them. Why the lag?

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FY2022 in brief

Silver Cliff collected $1,161 per resident, 62% below the median of the 72 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 46% below its peers. Tax revenue per resident sits 42% below its peers, and 54% below the state median. Debt per resident runs 94% 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

FY2022 headline figures

Revenue per resident (definition)

$1,161
46% below peers
Peer median
$2,152
CO median · 72 with a published figure
$3,031
Position
Higher than 3% of the 72 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$717
55% below peers
Peer median
$1,603
CO median · 71 with a published figure
$3,025
Position
Lowest of the 71 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$743
42% below peers
Peer median
$1,291
CO median · 71 with a published figure
$1,631
Position
Higher than 10% of the 71 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Debt per resident (definition)

$123
94% below CO median
Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 73 with a published figure
$2,068
Position
Higher than 3% of the 73 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 · $1,161
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $1,161 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $801K ÷ population 690 (2022 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A03 Commercial activities (other) charges
    • C89 State aid
    • D89 Local government aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T20 Licenses & permits
    • T24 Licenses & permits
    • T28 Licenses & permits
    • T29 Licenses & permits
    • U41 Royalties
    • U50 Private donations
    • U99 Miscellaneous

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • With about 690 residents, small changes in Silver Cliff's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Per resident, FY2022. Bars show Silver Cliff; 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 $640 per resident. On the revenue side, Silver Cliff reports no utility & transit charges; peers collect $403 per resident.

Money in

Revenue

$1,161
per resident46% below peers
Money in: Silver Cliff revenue per resident by category, FY2022, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
Peer median unavailable$478No peer comparison
$24526% abovepeers $194
$170in line withpeers $172
$15253% belowpeers $323
$1134.4×peers $26
$399% belowpeers $346
None reported · peers $403$0None reported
Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 72 reporting

Money out

Spending

$717
per resident55% below peers
Money out: Silver Cliff spending per resident by category, FY2022, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$52022% abovepeers $425
$15169% belowpeers $487
$3996% abovepeers $20
$7No peer comparisonpeers $0
None reported · peers $640$0None reported
None reported · peers $452$0None reported
None reported · peers $1$0None reported
Peer median of 3 peers · Colorado median of 71 reporting

Silver Cliff 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, FY2022. How peers are chosen

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Silver Cliff compared with its peer municipalities, FY2022, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
Silver Cliff$1,161$717$743$478$123
Bow Mar$1,771$1,599$1,291Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
IgnacioUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 21.2% of total revenue in FY2022. 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 2.1× the Colorado median.$4,995$4,328$2,557$2,481Not reported for this year
La SalleUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 18.7% of total revenue in FY2022. Revenue and spending per resident include them, so cities that run their own utilities read higher than cities that don't.$2,152$1,603$1,092Not reported for this year
Peer median$2,152$1,603$1,291Benchmark unavailableBenchmark 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
FY2016 $470 to FY2022 $1,161.$0$4.1K$8.3K’16’18’19’20’21’22Peer median FY2016: $571Peer median FY2018: $2,592Peer median FY2019: $2,292Peer median FY2020: $8,263Peer median FY2021: $1,748Peer median FY2022: $2,152Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $470FY2018: $503FY2019: $520FY2020: $796FY2021: $1,037FY2022: $1,161

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2018, FY2019, FY2020, FY2021, FY2022. 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$470$571$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2018$503$2,592$2,529 (75 reporting, sample year)
FY2019$520$2,292$2,694 (73 reporting, sample year)
FY2020$796$8,263$2,739 (76 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$1,037$1,748$2,476 (227 reporting)
FY2022$1,161$2,152$3,031 (72 reporting, sample year)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $504 to FY2022 $717.$0$3.2K$6.4K’16’18’19’20’21’22Peer median FY2016: $373Peer median FY2018: $1,925Peer median FY2019: $1,898Peer median FY2020: $6,392Peer median FY2021: $1,162Peer median FY2022: $1,603Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $504FY2018: $414FY2019: $513FY2020: $893FY2021: $998FY2022: $717. Excludes equipment purchases and payments to other governments, which Census stopped reporting after FY2021.

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Census definition change: Excludes equipment purchases and payments to other governments, which Census stopped reporting after FY2021.

Peer group changed in FY2018, FY2020, FY2021, FY2022, the same year as the census definition change. 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$504$373$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2018$414$1,925$2,387 (74 reporting, sample year)
FY2019$513$1,898$2,759 (71 reporting, sample year)
FY2020$893$6,392$2,485 (74 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$998$1,162$2,208 (220 reporting)
FY2022$717$1,603$3,025 (71 reporting, sample year)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $323 to FY2022 $743.$0$3K$5.9K’16’18’19’20’21’22Peer median FY2020: $5,915Peer median FY2022: $1,291Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $323FY2018: $346FY2019: $356FY2020: $434FY2021: $744FY2022: $743

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2018, FY2020, FY2021, FY2022. Peers are matched each year, so the peer median can step when the group changes.

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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$323Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2018$346Benchmark unavailable$1,173 (70 reporting, sample year)
FY2019$356Benchmark unavailable$1,187 (71 reporting, sample year)
FY2020$434$5,915$1,238 (72 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$744Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (201 reporting)
FY2022$743$1,291$1,631 (71 reporting, sample year)
Debt per resident
FY2019 $22 to FY2022 $123.$0$705.6$1.4K’16’18’19’20’21’22Peer median FY2021: $360Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2019: $22FY2020: $227FY2021: $213FY2022: $123

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016———
FY2018———
FY2019$22Benchmark unavailable$1,627 (69 reporting, sample year)
FY2020$227Benchmark unavailable$1,798 (71 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$213$360$1,411 (199 reporting)
FY2022$123Benchmark unavailable$2,068 (73 reporting, sample year)

Questions about Silver Cliff’s finances

How much revenue does Silver Cliff collect per resident?
Silver Cliff collected $1,161 per resident in FY2022, 62% below the median of the 72 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Silver Cliff's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Silver Cliff spent $717 per resident in FY2022, 55% below the median of its peers: Bow Mar, Ignacio and La Salle. See the figure
How much debt does Silver Cliff have per resident?
Silver Cliff carried $123 of debt per resident in FY2022, 94% below the Colorado median. See the figure
Which cities is Silver Cliff compared with?
Silver Cliff is compared with Bow Mar, Ignacio and La Salle: 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)
+0.1%/yr
2022 estimate
Median household income
$35.6K
2022 estimate
Poverty rate
16.1%
2022 estimate
Median home value
$225K
2022 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
24.6%
2022 estimate

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Sources

Dataset: Silver Cliff, 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.

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