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Westcliffe · FY2016 municipal finance benchmarks

Custer County · Southern Colorado · statutory town · Pop. 488 (2025 estimate); FY2016 per-resident figures use 632 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021

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

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FY2016 in brief

Westcliffe collected $679 per resident, 61% below the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 35% above its peers.

  • Tax revenue per resident withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 4.1x the peer median

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)

$679
35% above peers
Peer median
$501
CO median · 224 with a published figure
$1,746
Position
Higher than 8% 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)

$318
32% below peers
Peer median
$466
CO median · 196 with a published figure
$1,749
Position
Higher than 4% 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
$705
Position
Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars
Withheld with this year's value

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $679
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $679 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $429K ÷ population 632 (2016 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A61 Parks & recreation charges
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • U30 Fines & forfeits

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • With about 632 residents, small changes in Westcliffe's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.

Where the money comes from and where it goes

Per resident, FY2016. Bars show Westcliffe; 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 $150 per resident. On the revenue side, Westcliffe reports no utility & transit charges; peers collect $137 per resident.

Money in

Revenue

$679
per resident35% above peers
Money in: Westcliffe revenue per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$397% belowpeers $97
$288% belowpeers $13
None reported · peers $137$0None reported
None reported · peers $62$0None reported
Withheldpeers $99
Withheldpeers $0
Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 224 reporting

Money out

Spending

$318
per resident32% below peers
Money out: Westcliffe spending per resident by category, FY2016, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$15524% belowpeers $203
$652.7×peers $24
$523.7×peers $14
$469% abovepeers $42
None reported · peers $150$0None reported
None reported · peers $25$0None reported
Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 196 reporting

Westcliffe 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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Westcliffe compared with its peer municipalities, FY2016, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
Westcliffe$679$318$582Not reported for this year
Silver Cliff$470$504$323$157Not reported for this year
La VetaUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 20.3% 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.$641$810$229Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
WilliamsburgUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 75.8% 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.$501$429$1,192
Deer TrailUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 28.8% 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.$502$274$99Not reported for this yearNot reported for this year
Peer median$501$466Benchmark unavailableBenchmark unavailableNot 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.

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 $679 to FY2021 $2,311.$0$1.2K$2.5K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $501Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $679FY2021: $2,311

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

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Revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$679$501$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$2,311Benchmark unavailable$2,476 (227 reporting)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $318 to FY2021 $2,166.$0$1.1K$2.2K’16’21Peer median FY2016: $466Peer median FY2021: $926Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $318FY2021: $2,166

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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Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$318$466$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021$2,166$926$2,208 (220 reporting)
Tax revenue per resident
2 years withheld.$0$536$1.1K’16’21Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 4.1x the peer medianFY2021: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 11.1x the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 4.1x the peer median
  • FY2021 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 11.1x the peer median
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Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 4.1x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 11.1x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (201 reporting)

Questions about Westcliffe’s finances

How much revenue does Westcliffe collect per resident?
Westcliffe collected $679 per resident in FY2016, 61% below the median of the 224 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Westcliffe's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Westcliffe spent $318 per resident in FY2016, 32% below the median of its peers: Silver Cliff, La Veta, Williamsburg and Deer Trail. See the figure
Which cities is Westcliffe compared with?
Westcliffe is compared with Silver Cliff, La Veta, Williamsburg and Deer Trail: 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)
+2.1%/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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Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Westcliffe, 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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