Snowmass Village · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

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Pitkin County · Central Mountains & Resort · home rule municipality · Pop. 2,965 (2025 estimate); FY2016 per-resident figures use 2,805 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021, FY2023

You’re viewing FY2016. See the latest view (FY2023). Latest Census Bureau finance data for Snowmass Village: FY2023. Retrieved Oct 2026. Newer years are added when the Census Bureau publishes them. Why the lag?

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FY2016 in brief

Snowmass Village collected $11,120 per resident, 6.4× the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 2.6× its peers. Debt per resident runs 17.8× peers.

Regional hub: sales tax per resident is 7.5× the Colorado median.

Tax revenue per resident withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 6.6x 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)

$11,120

2.6× peers

Peer median: $4,197
CO median · 224 with a published figure Median of the 224 Colorado municipalities with FY2016 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $1,746
Position: Higher than 98% of the 224 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: Not enough history for a 5-year change

How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$9,763

2.7× peers

Peer median: $3,585
CO median · 196 with a published figure Median of the 196 Colorado municipalities with FY2016 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $1,749
Position: Higher than 98% of the 196 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars: Not enough history for a 5-year change

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

Peer median: Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 193 with a published figure Median of the 193 Colorado municipalities with FY2016 Census finance data. In FY2016 and FY2021 the Census covers every municipality; in other years it surveys a sample, mostly larger cities.: $705
Position: Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars: Withheld with this year's value

Debt per resident (definition)

$3,312

17.8× peers

Peer median: $186
CO median · 220 with a published figure Median of the 220 Colorado municipalities with FY2016 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: Higher than 85% 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 · $11,120

Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

1Metric
$11,120 Total revenue divided by population
= Total revenue ÷ population
Full definition: Revenue per resident
2Inputs
Total revenue $31.2M ÷ population 2,805 (2016 estimate)
3Census line items
- A50 Housing & community development charges
- A60 Parking charges
- A61 Parks & recreation charges
- A81 Solid waste charges
- A89 General government (other) charges
- C30 State aid
- C46 State aid
- D46 Local government aid
- D89 Local government aid
- T01 Property tax
- T09 General sales tax
- T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
- T20 Licenses & permits
- T24 Licenses & permits
- T28 Licenses & permits
- T29 Licenses & permits
- T51 Other taxes
- U20 Interest earnings
- U30 Fines & forfeits
- U40 Rents
- U50 Private donations
- U99 Miscellaneous
4Source file
- Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2017 - Individual Unit File
  Value for
  FY2016
  Survey file
  2017
  The 2017 Census survey covers fiscal years ending July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017, so a fiscal year ending December 31, 2016 is FY2016.
  Retrieved October 12, 2026 · View source: Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2017 - Individual Unit File (opens in a new tab)
- Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2020 - incorporated places
  Value for
  FY2016
  Source year
  2020
  Retrieved October 7, 2026 · View source: Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2020 - incorporated places (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers mean

With about 2,805 residents, small changes in Snowmass Village's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.
Debt per resident is 17.8× the peer median. One large bond issue can do this; check the city's annual financial report for what it funded.

Where the money comes from and where it goes

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

Regional hub: sales tax per resident is 7.5× 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: $6,156 per resident, 6.1× the peer median. On the revenue side, other revenue is 6.2× peers.

Money in

Revenue

$11,121

per resident2.6× peers

Money in: Snowmass Village revenue per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
Category	Per resident	Peer median	vs peers	Share of revenue
	$1,848	$864	2.1× peerspeers $864	17%

Housing & community development charges $946 · peers $0 Solid waste charges $375 · peers $45 Parks & recreation charges $266 · peers $6 General government (other) charges $132 · peers $23 Parking charges $129 · peers $0 Charges for services such as sewer, trash, recreation, parking and airports. Census line items A50 Housing & community development charges A60 Parking charges A61 Parks & recreation charges A81 Solid waste charges A89 General government (other) charges
	$1,295	$210	6.2× peerspeers $210	12%

Private donations $824 · peers $5 Miscellaneous $291 · peers $24 Rents $79 · peers $0 Interest earnings $78 · peers $28 Fines & forfeits $24 · peers $38 Interest earnings, fines, rents, special assessments, donations and sales of property. Census line items U20 Interest earnings U30 Fines & forfeits U40 Rents U50 Private donations U99 Miscellaneous
	$199	$499	60% below peerspeers $499	2%

Local government aid $147 · peers $146 State aid $52 · peers $117 Grants and shared revenue from federal, state and local governments. Census line items C30 State aid C46 State aid D46 Local government aid D89 Local government aid
None reported · peers $429	$0	$429	None reported	0%

Snowmass Village reported nothing in this category for FY2016. Revenue of city-owned water, electric, gas and transit systems.
	Withheld Snowmass Village · Sales tax · FY2016 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 6.6x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	$1,192	Withheldpeers $1,192	Withheld

General sales tax Withheld Snowmass Village · General sales tax · FY2016 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 6.6x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report. · peers $1,192 General sales and use tax. Census line items T09 General sales tax
	Withheld Snowmass Village · Property tax · FY2016 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 6.6x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	$340	Withheldpeers $340	Withheld

Property tax Withheld Snowmass Village · Property tax · FY2016 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 6.6x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report. · peers $340 Property tax levied by the municipality. Census line items T01 Property tax
	Withheld Snowmass Village · Other taxes · FY2016 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 6.6x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	$285	Withheldpeers $285	Withheld

Licenses & permits Withheld Snowmass Village · Licenses & permits · FY2016 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 6.6x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report. · peers $73 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.) Withheld Snowmass Village · Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.) · FY2016 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 6.6x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report. · peers $59 Other taxes Withheld Snowmass Village · Other taxes · FY2016 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 6.6x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report. · peers $0 Lodging, utility, tobacco and other selective sales taxes, licenses and permits, and other taxes. Census line items T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.) T20 Licenses & permits T24 Licenses & permits T28 Licenses & permits T29 Licenses & permits T51 Other taxes

Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 224 reporting

Money out

Spending

$9,763

per resident2.7× peers

Money out: Snowmass Village spending per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
Category	Per resident	Peer median	vs peers	Share of spending
	$6,156	$1,001	6.1× peerspeers $1,001	63%

General government (other) $4,715 · peers $767 incl. $2,078 construction Central staff services $768 · peers $111 Financial administration $364 · peers $123 General public buildings $305 · peers $32 Judicial & legal $3 · peers $20 incl. $2,078 construction Administration, finance, legal and courts, public buildings and other general government. Census line items E23 Financial administration E25 Judicial & legal E29 Central staff services E31 General public buildings E89 General government (other) F89 General government (other)
	$1,519	$887	71% above peerspeers $887	16%

Transit $1,114 · peers $0 Streets & highways $406 · peers $743 Streets and highways, transit, parking and airports. Census line items E44 Streets & highways E94 Transit
	$1,035	$932	11% above peerspeers $932	11%

Housing & community development $530 · peers $261 Parks & recreation $505 · peers $444 Parks and recreation, libraries, housing and community development. Census line items E50 Housing & community development E61 Parks & recreation
	$618	$426	45% above peerspeers $426	6%

Police $618 · peers $406 Police, fire protection, inspection and corrections. Census line items E62 Police
	$279	$397	30% below peerspeers $397	3%

Solid waste $279 · peers $0 Water, sewer, solid waste, electric and gas utilities, and natural resources. Census line items E81 Solid waste
	$155	$29	5.4× peerspeers $29	2%

Interest on debt $155 · peers $29 Interest paid on the municipality's debt. Includes Census Bureau estimates for this year. Census line items I89 Interest on debt

Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 196 reporting

Snowmass Village 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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Snowmass Village compared with its peer municipalities, FY2016, per resident
Municipality	Revenue	Expenditures	Tax revenue	Sales tax	Debt
Snowmass VillageRegional hub: Sales tax per resident is 7.5× the Colorado median.	$11,120	$9,763	Withheld Snowmass Village · Tax revenue per resident · FY2016 Reason: Tax revenue per resident is 6.6x the peer median We don't publish figures that fail our quality checks until they're verified against the city's audited financial report.	$4,175	$3,312
FriscoUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 5.7% 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.Regional hub: Sales tax per resident is 2.6× the Colorado median.	$6,224	$5,341	$2,451	$1,422	$1,139
Buena VistaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 16.3% 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.Regional hub: Sales tax per resident is 1.7× the Colorado median.	$2,170	$1,828	$1,182	$961	$172
TellurideUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 5.4% 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.Regional hub: Sales tax per resident is 3.7× the Colorado median.	$10,329	$10,695	$6,523	$2,074	$16,610
SiltUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 45.7% 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.	$1,095	$1,313	$408	$305	$180
Peer median	$4,197	$3,585	Benchmark unavailable	$1,192	$186

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

Peer group changed in FY2021, FY2023. 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
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$11,120	$4,197	$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021	$15,733	$8,847	$2,476 (227 reporting)
FY2023	$19,796	$10,679	$3,580 (97 reporting, sample year)

Expenditures per resident

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 FY2021, FY2023. 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
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$9,763	$3,585	$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021	$10,647	$5,097	$2,208 (220 reporting)
FY2023	$17,473	$12,211	$3,680 (91 reporting, sample year)

Tax revenue per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 6.6x the peer median

Peer group changed in FY2021, FY2023. 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
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 6.6x the peer median)	Benchmark unavailable	$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021	$11,052	$4,753	$1,072 (201 reporting)
FY2023	$12,982	$5,889	$1,726 (90 reporting, sample year)

Debt per resident

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

Peer group changed in FY2021, FY2023. Peers are matched each year, so the peer median can step when the group changes.

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
Year	This city	Peer median	Colorado median
FY2016	$3,312	$186	$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021	$316	$1,595	$1,411 (199 reporting)
FY2023	$3,319	$6,858	$2,130 (91 reporting, sample year)

Questions about Snowmass Village’s finances

How much revenue does Snowmass Village collect per resident?: Snowmass Village collected $11,120 per resident in FY2016, 6.4× the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Snowmass Village's spending per resident compare with similar cities?: Snowmass Village spent $9,763 per resident in FY2016, 2.7× the median of its peers: Frisco, Buena Vista, Telluride and Silt. See the figure
How much debt does Snowmass Village have per resident?: Snowmass Village carried $3,312 of debt per resident in FY2016, 17.8× its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Snowmass Village compared with?: Snowmass Village is compared with Frisco, Buena Vista, Telluride and Silt: 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; 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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Also in Central Mountains & Resort

Frisco$10,679 · FY2023
Buena Vista$2,987 · FY2021
Leadville
Telluride$22,046 · FY2023
Granby$7,075 · FY2023
Hayden$2,383 · FY2021
Basalt
Idaho Springs$3,956 · FY2021

Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2017 - Individual Unit File · 2017 survey file
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 12, 2026View source: Annual Survey of State & Local Government Finances 2017 - Individual Unit File (opens in a new tab)
Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2020 - incorporated places · 2020
U.S. Census Bureau
Retrieved October 7, 2026View source: Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2020 - incorporated places (opens in a new tab)

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Snowmass Village · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

FY2016 in brief

FY2016 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

Snowmass Village and its peers

Trends

Questions about Snowmass Village’s finances

Community context

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Also in Central Mountains & Resort

Sources

General government is Snowmass Village’s largest difference from its peers (6.1× the peer median in FY2016). See how that line moves month to month in your own budget-vs-actual.