Orivian

Winter Park · FY2021 municipal finance benchmarks

Grand County · Central Mountains & Resort · home rule municipality · Pop. 1,217 (2025 estimate); FY2021 per-resident figures use 1,077 · Census finance data FY2016, FY2021, FY2023

You’re viewing FY2021. See the latest view (FY2023). Latest Census Bureau finance data for Winter Park: FY2023. Retrieved Oct 2026. Newer years are added when the Census Bureau publishes them. Why the lag?

City website (opens in a new tab)

Compare

FY2021 in brief

Winter Park collected $20,394 per resident (including city-run utilities), 8.2× the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year, 4.8× its peers. Debt per resident runs 14.2× peers.

Regional hub: sales tax per resident is 11.7× the Colorado median.

  • Tax revenue per resident withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 7.7x the peer 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)

$20,394
4.8× peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$4,286
CO median · 227 with a published figure
$2,476
Position
Higher than 99% of the 227 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+14.2%/yr
How Colorado compares on revenue per resident

Expenditures per resident (definition)

$15,281
2.0× peers
Includes city-owned utilities
Peer median
$7,635
CO median · 220 with a published figure
$2,208
Position
Higher than 99% of the 220 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+8.6%/yr

Tax revenue per resident (definition)

Peer median
Benchmark unavailable
CO median · 201 with a published figure
$1,072
Position
Not reported for this year
5-year changenominal dollars
Withheld with this year's value

Debt per resident (definition)

$23,577
14.2× peers
Peer median
$1,664
CO median · 199 with a published figure
$1,411
Position
Higher than 99% of the 199 reporting
5-year changenominal dollars
+23.9%/yr
How Colorado compares on debt per resident

How this number was calculated

Revenue per resident · $20,394
Reported by the city to the Census Bureau

  1. 1Metric

    $20,394 Total revenue divided by population

    = Total revenue ÷ population

    Full definition: Revenue per resident

  2. 2Inputs

    Total revenue $22M ÷ population 1,077 (2021 estimate)

  3. 3Census line items

    • A50 Housing & community development charges
    • A59 Natural resources charges
    • A89 General government (other) charges
    • A94 Transit charges
    • B89 Federal aid
    • C89 State aid
    • T01 Property tax
    • T09 General sales tax
    • T19 Selective sales taxes (lodging, utilities, etc.)
    • T20 Licenses & permits
    • T28 Licenses & permits
    • T29 Licenses & permits
    • T51 Other taxes
    • T99 Other taxes
    • U01 Special assessments
    • U11 Sale of property
    • U20 Interest earnings
    • U40 Rents
    • U50 Private donations
    • U99 Miscellaneous

  4. 4Source file

What the numbers mean

  • Winter Park runs city-owned utilities, which add 0.6% 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 1,077 residents, small changes in Winter Park's budget move per-resident figures a lot. Compare several years, not one.
  • Debt per resident is 14.2× 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, FY2021. Bars show Winter Park; the gold tick is the peer median. How categories work

Regional hub: sales tax per resident is 11.7× 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 Transportation: $4,143 per resident, 3.7× the peer median. On the revenue side, intergovernmental is 3.5× peers.

Money in

Revenue

$20,394
per resident4.8× peers
Money in: Winter Park revenue per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$2,9513.5×peers $845
$1,3316.7×peers $200
$1,0015.1×peers $198
$12489% belowpeers $1,113
Withheldpeers $3,317
Withheldpeers $1,192
Withheldpeers $590
Peer median of 5 peers · Colorado median of 227 reporting

Money out

Spending

$15,281
per resident2.0× peers
Money out: Winter Park spending per resident by category, FY2021, against the peer median. Open a category for its lines and Census item codes.
CategoryPer residentvs peers
$5,98192% abovepeers $3,118
$4,1433.7×peers $1,115
$2,42588% abovepeers $1,292
$1,98727% abovepeers $1,565
$74112.0×peers $62
$5100% belowpeers $1,397
Peer median of 4 peers · Colorado median of 220 reporting

Winter Park 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

Open in Compare
Winter Park compared with its peer municipalities, FY2021, per resident
MunicipalityRevenueExpendituresTax revenueSales taxDebt
Winter ParkUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 0.6% 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.Regional hub: Sales tax per resident is 11.7× the Colorado median.$20,394$15,281$10,094$23,577
DillonUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 9.5% 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.Regional hub: Sales tax per resident is 10.2× the Colorado median.$19,877$15,016$10,987$8,751$16,567
Poncha SpringsUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 28.7% 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.$2,456Not reported for this year
Mt. Crested ButteRegional hub: Sales tax per resident is 3.9× the Colorado median.$7,360$11,410$6,746$3,317$1,473
MinturnUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 26.0% 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 1.5× the Colorado median.$4,286$3,861$1,944$1,324$152
Oak CreekUtilities: City-owned utilities (water, electric, gas, transit) brought in 53.3% 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.$4,009$3,126$1,856
Peer median$4,286$7,635Benchmark unavailable$3,317$1,664

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 $10,509 to FY2023 $26,089.$0$13K$26.1K’16’21’23Peer median FY2016: $2,819Peer median FY2021: $4,286Peer median FY2023: $13,790Colorado median FY2016: $1,746 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,476 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $10,509FY2021: $20,394FY2023: $26,089

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.

Show data table
Revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$10,509$2,819$1,746 (224 reporting)
FY2021$20,394$4,286$2,476 (227 reporting)
FY2023$26,089$13,790$3,580 (97 reporting, sample year)
Expenditures per resident
FY2016 $10,124 to FY2023 $28,038.$0$14K$28K’16’21’23Peer median FY2016: $3,860Peer median FY2021: $7,635Peer median FY2023: $14,997Colorado median FY2016: $1,749 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $2,208 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $10,124FY2021: $15,281FY2023: $28,038. Excludes equipment purchases and payments to other governments, which Census stopped reporting after FY2021.

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.

Show data table
Expenditures per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$10,124$3,860$1,749 (196 reporting)
FY2021$15,281$7,635$2,208 (220 reporting)
FY2023$28,038$14,997$3,680 (91 reporting, sample year)
Tax revenue per resident
FY2023 $15,201. 2 years withheld.$0$7.6K$15.2K’16’21’23Peer median FY2023: $7,889Colorado median FY2016: $705 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,072 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2023: $15,201FY2016: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 7.7x the peer medianFY2021: withheld — Tax revenue per resident is 7.7x the peer median

Fiscal year · nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation

  • FY2016, FY2021 withheld: Tax revenue per resident is 7.7x the peer median
Show data table
Tax revenue per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 7.7x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$705 (193 reporting)
FY2021Withheld (Tax revenue per resident is 7.7x the peer median)Benchmark unavailable$1,072 (201 reporting)
FY2023$15,201$7,889$1,726 (90 reporting, sample year)
Debt per resident
FY2016 $8,067 to FY2023 $25,474.$0$12.7K$25.5K’16’21’23Peer median FY2016: $2,790Peer median FY2021: $1,664Peer median FY2023: $9,276Colorado median FY2016: $1,072 (all 224 municipalities reporting)Colorado median FY2021: $1,411 (all 227 municipalities reporting)FY2016: $8,067FY2021: $23,577FY2023: $25,474

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.

Show data table
Debt per resident by fiscal year
YearThis cityPeer medianColorado median
FY2016$8,067$2,790$1,072 (220 reporting)
FY2021$23,577$1,664$1,411 (199 reporting)
FY2023$25,474$9,276$2,130 (91 reporting, sample year)

Questions about Winter Park’s finances

How much revenue does Winter Park collect per resident?
Winter Park collected $20,394 per resident in FY2021, 8.2× the median of the 227 Colorado municipalities reporting that year. See the figure
How does Winter Park's spending per resident compare with similar cities?
Winter Park spent $15,281 per resident in FY2021, 2.0× the median of its peers: Dillon, Poncha Springs, Mt. Crested Butte, Minturn and Oak Creek. See the figure
How much debt does Winter Park have per resident?
Winter Park carried $23,577 of debt per resident in FY2021, 14.2× its peers' median. See the figure
Which cities is Winter Park compared with?
Winter Park is compared with Dillon, Poncha Springs, Mt. Crested Butte, Minturn and Oak Creek: 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)
+0.8%/yr
2021 estimate
Median household income
$82.3K
2021 estimate
Poverty rate
6.2%
2021 estimate
Median home value
$480K
2021 estimate
Housing vacancy rate
87.6%
2021 estimate

Explore further

Also in Central Mountains & Resort

Revenue per resident, latest published year.

Sources

Dataset: Winter Park, 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

Transportation is Winter Park’s largest difference from its peers (3.7× the peer median in FY2021). See how that line moves month to month in your own budget-vs-actual.

Orivian applies the same sourced, governed approach to your city's own budget-vs-actual data.

See how it worksTalk to us
Book a walkthrough