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Silver Plume · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Clear Creek County · Central Mountains & Resort · home rule municipality · Pop. 180 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 199 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2021 in brief

Silver Plume collected $2,874 per resident (including city-run utilities), 16% above the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 8% below its peers. Tax revenue per resident sits in line with its peers, but 25% above 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)

$2,874
8% below peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$3,133
CO median · 227 with a published figure
$2,476
Position
Higher than 62% of the 227 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+24.7%/yr
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$3,930
58% above peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$2,484
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$2,208
Position
Higher than 81% of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$1,337
in line with peers
Peer median
$1,333
CO median · 201 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 62% of the 201 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $2,874
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $2,874 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $572K ÷ population 199 (2021 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A89 General government (other) charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • C89 State aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T28 Licenses & permits
    • T29 Licenses & permits
    • T99 Other taxes

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Silver Plume runs city-owned utilities, which add 13.5% of its revenue. Cities that don't run utilities will look lower on revenue and spending per resident for that reason alone. What counts as utility revenue
  • With about 199 residents, small changes in Silver Plume'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 Silver Plume; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is General government: $2,704 per resident, 74% above the peer median. On the revenue side, fees & charges is 3.0× peers.

Money in

Revenue

$2,874
per resident8% below peers
Money in: Silver Plume revenue per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$9953.0×peers $332
$92013% belowpeers $1,062
$38749% belowpeers $757
$26151% belowpeers $529
$15654% belowpeers $340
$1563.0×peers $51
None reported · peers $9$0None reported
Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$3,930
per resident58% above peers
Money out: Silver Plume spending per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$2,70474% abovepeers $1,558
$90520% belowpeers $1,124
$3222.9×peers $109
None reported · peers $231$0None reported
None reported · peers $18$0None reported
None reported · peers $13$0None reported
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Silver Plume 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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Silver Plume compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
Silver PlumeUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 13.5% 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.$2,874$3,930$1,337$920Not reported for this year
Red CliffUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 42.6% 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.$2,972$3,303$1,189$398$516
OphirUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 8.3% 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.$3,282$1,328$1,421Not reported for this year
EmpireUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 32.2% 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.$3,292$2,484$1,245$1,062Not reported for this year
AlmaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 15.2% 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 1.7× the Colorado median.$2,983$2,445$1,809$1,431$294
Peer median$3,133$2,484$1,333$1,247Not 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.

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 $955 to FY2021 $2,874.$0$1.6K$3.1K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $1,882Peer median FY2021: $3,133Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $955FY2021: $2,874

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$955$1,882$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$2,874$3,133$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2021 $3,930. 1 year withheld.$0$2K$3.9K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $2,484Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $3,930FY2016: withheld — Expenditures per resident is 18% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Expenditures per resident is 18% of the peer median
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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Expenditures per resident is 18% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021$3,930$2,484$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2021 $1,337. 1 year withheld.$0$668.3$1.3K’16’21Peer median FY2021: $1,333Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2021: $1,337FY2016: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 19% of the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 19% 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 19% of the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021$1,337$1,333$1,072 (201 reporting)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $182.$0$975.3$2K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $1,951Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $182

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$182$1,951$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021———

Questions about Silver Plume’s finances

How much revenue does Silver Plume collect per resident?
Silver Plume collected $2,874 per resident in FY2021, 16% above the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Silver Plume's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Silver Plume spent $3,930 per resident in FY2021, 58% above the median of its peers: Red Cliff, Ophir, Empire and Alma. See the figure
Which cities is Silver Plume compared with?
Silver Plume is compared with Red Cliff, Ophir, Empire and Alma: 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)
+2.5%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$66.1K
2020 estimate · nearest year to FY2021
Poverty rate
0.0%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$287.5K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
45.8%
2021 estimate

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Sources

Dataset: Silver Plume, 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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