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Wellington · FY2022 municipal finance benchmarks

Larimer County · Northern Front Range · statutory town · Pop. 12,169 (2025 estimate); FY2022 per-resident figures use 12,008 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2018, FY2019, FY2020, FY2021, FY2022

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

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FY2022 in brief

Wellington collected $1,738 per resident (including city-run utilities), 43% below the median of the 72 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. Tax revenue per resident sits 59% below its peers. Debt per resident runs 21% above peers.

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)

$1,738
39% below peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$2,857
CO median · 72 with a published figure
$3,031
Position
Higher than 14% 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)

$811
62% below peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$2,112
CO median · 71 with a published figure
$3,025
Position
Higher than 1% of the 71 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

$688
59% below peers
Peer median
$1,688
CO median · 71 with a published figure
$1,631
Position
Higher than 7% of the 71 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
Not enough history for a 5-year change

Debt per resident (definition)

$1,899
21% above peers
Peer median
$1,575
CO median · 73 with a published figure
$2,068
Position
Higher than 46% 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 · $1,738
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $1,738 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $20.9M ÷ population 12,008 (2022 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A03 Commercial activities (other) charges
    • A61 Parks & recreation charges
    • A80 Sewer charges
    • A89 General government (other) charges
    • A91 Water utility charges
    • C89 State aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T15 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T19 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T20 Licenses & permits
    • T28 Licenses & permits
    • T29 Licenses & permits
    • U11 Sale of property
    • U20 Interest earnings
    • U30 Fines & forfeits
    • U99 Miscellaneous

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Wellington runs city-owned utilities, which add 25.1% 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

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Per resident, FY2022. Bars show Wellington; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

The biggest difference from peers is General government: $121 per resident, 77% below the peer median. On the revenue side, sales tax is 69% below peers.

Money in

Revenue

$1,738
per resident39% below peers
Money in: Wellington revenue per resident by category, FY2022, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$43740% abovepeers $313
$32969% belowpeers $1,065
$30911% abovepeers $278
$20329% abovepeers $158
$19813% belowpeers $228
$15654% belowpeers $339
$10660% belowpeers $263
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 72 reporting

Money out

Spending

$811
per resident62% below peers
Money out: Wellington spending per resident by category, FY2022, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$32535% belowpeers $504
$1534.8×peers $32
$15014% belowpeers $175
$12177% belowpeers $537
$3780% belowpeers $183
$2464% belowpeers $66
$0No peer comparisonpeers $0
Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 71 reporting

Wellington 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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Wellington compared with its peer municipalities, FY2022, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
WellingtonUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 25.1% 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.$1,738$811$688$329$1,899
SeveranceUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 19.6% 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.$1,591$1,302$604$306Not reported for this year
MillikenUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 18.5% 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.$1,700$1,136$873$376$659
Lone TreeRegional hub: Sales tax per resident is 2.7× the Colorado median.$4,845$3,461$3,492$3,109$813
SuperiorUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 9.6% 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.$2,857$2,923$1,688$1,065$2,337
JohnstownUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 12.1% 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.$4,191$2,730$1,169$3,062
Peer median$2,857$2,112$1,688$1,065$1,575

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 $1,178 to FY2022 $1,738.$0$1.8K$3.6K’16’18’19’20’21’22Peer median FY2016: $2,087Peer median FY2018: $3,353Peer median FY2019: $3,584Peer median FY2020: $2,254Peer median FY2021: $2,338Peer median FY2022: $2,857Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $1,178FY2018: $1,707FY2019: $1,332FY2020: $1,739FY2021: $1,669FY2022: $1,738

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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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$1,178$2,087$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2018$1,707$3,353$2,529 (75 reporting, sample year)
FY2019$1,332$3,584$2,694 (73 reporting, sample year)
FY2020$1,739$2,254$2,739 (76 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$1,669$2,338$2,476 (227 reporting)
FY2022$1,738$2,857$3,031 (72 reporting, sample year)
Expenditures per resident
FY2018 $1,195 to FY2022 $811. 1 year withheld.$0$1.7K$3.3K’16’18’19’20’21’22Peer median FY2018: $2,776Peer median FY2019: $3,348Peer median FY2020: $2,135Peer median FY2021: $1,994Peer median FY2022: $2,112Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2018: $1,195FY2019: $1,107FY2020: $1,267FY2021: $1,408FY2022: $811. Excludes equipment purchases and payments to other governments, which Census stopped reporting after FY2021.FY2016: withheld — Expenditures per resident is 19% of this city's typical level in other years

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.

  • FY2016 withheld: Expenditures per resident is 19% of this city's typical level in other years

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
FY2016Withheld (Expenditures per resident is 19% of this city's typical level in other years)Benchmark unavailable$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2018$1,195$2,776$2,387 (74 reporting, sample year)
FY2019$1,107$3,348$2,759 (71 reporting, sample year)
FY2020$1,267$2,135$2,485 (74 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$1,408$1,994$2,208 (220 reporting)
FY2022$811$2,112$3,025 (71 reporting, sample year)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2018 $495 to FY2022 $688. 1 year withheld.$0$843.8$1.7K’16’18’19’20’21’22Peer median FY2018: $1,344Peer median FY2019: $1,323Peer median FY2020: $1,103Peer median FY2021: $949Peer median FY2022: $1,688Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2018: $495FY2019: $399FY2020: $472FY2021: $665FY2022: $688FY2016: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 27% of this city's typical level in other years

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 27% of this city's typical level in other years

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
FY2016Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 27% of this city's typical level in other years)Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2018$495$1,344$1,173 (70 reporting, sample year)
FY2019$399$1,323$1,187 (71 reporting, sample year)
FY2020$472$1,103$1,238 (72 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$665$949$1,072 (201 reporting)
FY2022$688$1,688$1,631 (71 reporting, sample year)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $221 to FY2022 $1,899.$0$1.6K$3.2K’16’18’19’20’21’22Peer median FY2016: $811Peer median FY2018: $1,064Peer median FY2019: $764Peer median FY2020: $553Peer median FY2021: $1,273Peer median FY2022: $1,575Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $221FY2018: $563FY2019: $3,162FY2020: $2,318FY2021: $2,081FY2022: $1,899

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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Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$221$811$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2018$563$1,064$1,644 (70 reporting, sample year)
FY2019$3,162$764$1,627 (69 reporting, sample year)
FY2020$2,318$553$1,798 (71 reporting, sample year)
FY2021$2,081$1,273$1,411 (199 reporting)
FY2022$1,899$1,575$2,068 (73 reporting, sample year)

Questions about Wellington’s finances

How much revenue does Wellington collect per resident?
Wellington collected $1,738 per resident in FY2022, 43% below the median of the 72 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Wellington's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Wellington spent $811 per resident in FY2022, 62% below the median of its peers: Severance, Milliken, Lone Tree, Superior and Johnstown. See the figure
How much debt does Wellington have per resident?
Wellington carried $1,899 of debt per resident in FY2022, 21% above its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Wellington compared with?
Wellington is compared with Severance, Milliken, Lone Tree, Superior and Johnstown: 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)
+8.3%/yr
2022 estimate
Median household income
$101.3K
2022 estimate
Poverty rate
11.3%
2022 estimate
Median home value
$413.8K
2022 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
1.0%
2022 estimate

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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Wellington, 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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