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Starkville · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

Las Animas County · Southern Colorado · statutory town · Pop. 66 (2025 estimate); FY2016 per-resident figures use 52 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2016 in brief

Starkville collected $923 per resident (including city-run utilities), 47% below the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, in line with its peers. Tax revenue per resident sits 47% above its peers, but 78% below the state median. Debt per resident runs 13.6× peers.

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

Compared with

Nearest on population, household income and region

FY2016 headline figures

Revenue per resident (definition)

$923
in line with peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$953
CO median · 224 with a published figure
$1,746
Position
Higher than 14% 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)

$365
79% below CO median
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 196 with a published figure
$1,749
Position
Higher than 5% of the 196 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$154
47% above peers
Peer median
$104
CO median · 193 with a published figure
$705
Position
Higher than 13% of the 193 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Debt per resident (definition)

$2,442
13.6× peers
Peer median
$180
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Higher than 74% 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 · $923
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $923 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $48K ÷ population 52 (2016 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A91 Water utility charges
    • C46 State aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T24 Licenses & permits

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Starkville runs city-owned utilities, which add 77.1% 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 52 residents, small changes in Starkville's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.
  • Debt per resident is 13.6× 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 Starkville; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

On the revenue side, the biggest difference from peers is Utility & transit charges: $712 per resident, 3.2× the peer median.

Money in

Revenue

$923
per residentin line with peers
Money in: Starkville revenue per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$7123.2×peers $224
$13532% abovepeers $102
$58No peer comparisonpeers $0
$19No peer comparisonpeers $0
None reported · peers $450$0None reported
None reported · peers $164$0None reported
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 224 reporting

Money out

Spending

$365
per resident
Money out: Starkville spending per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
Peer median unavailable$250No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$96No peer comparison
Peer median unavailable$19No peer comparison
None reported$0None reported
None reported$0None reported
None reported$0None reported
Peer median of 2 peers · Colorado median of 196 reporting

Starkville 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

Open in Compare
Starkville compared with its peer municipalities, FY2016, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
StarkvilleUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 77.1% 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.$923$365$154Not reported for this year$2,442
KimUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 54.5% 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.$657$657$104Not reported for this year$1,299
BransonUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 23.1% 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.$970$104Not reported for this year$179
Cokedale$1,345$767Not reported for this year$5,293
RamahUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 23.0% 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.$953$109Not reported for this year$180
Two ButtesUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 23.7% 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.$950$100Not reported for this year$175
Peer median$953Benchmark unavailable$104Not reported for this year$180

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 $923. 1 year withheld.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $953Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $923FY2021: withheld — Revenue per resident is 3.8x the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2021 withheld: Revenue per resident is 3.8x the peer median
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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$923$953$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Revenue per resident is 3.8x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $365.$0$874.3$1.7K’16’21Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $365

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$365Benchmark unavailable$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021———
Tax revenue per resident
FY2016 $154.$0$352.6$705.1’16’21Peer median FY2016: $104Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $154

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$154$104$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021———
Debt per resident
FY2016 $2,442.$0$1.2K$2.4K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $180Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $2,442

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$2,442$180$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021———

Questions about Starkville’s finances

How much revenue does Starkville collect per resident?
Starkville collected $923 per resident in FY2016, 47% below the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Starkville's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Starkville spent $365 per resident in FY2016, 79% below the Colorado median. There was no peer group to compare with that year. See the figure
How much debt does Starkville have per resident?
Starkville carried $2,442 of debt per resident in FY2016, 13.6× its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Starkville compared with?
Starkville is compared with Kim, Branson, Cokedale, Ramah and Two Buttes: 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)
−1.8%/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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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Starkville, 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.

Every figure on this page is read from the published index; nothing is recalculated for display. Read the methodology

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