Debt — All 169 Connecticut Towns
What each town owes per resident, and how much of its budget goes to debt payments.
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Debt service as a share of the adopted budget
Principal and interest payments as a share of each town's total adopted budget, —. Sorted lowest to highest. A zero can mean a town is debt-free or that it budgets debt outside the general fund.
Source: CT OPM adopted municipal budgets (pcg4-s5rc), fields debt_service and total_expenditures, via ct_adopted_budgets.json.
Bonded long-term debt per resident (audited)
Each town's bonded long-term debt divided by its population, from the audited indicators for — — the most recent audited year the state publishes. Sorted lowest to highest.
Source: CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf), fields bonded_long_term_debt and the state health department population, via ct_ucoa_town_indicators.json. Audited basis, different year from the chart above — the two must not be combined into one figure.
The full table
All towns with both measures, in their respective years.
How this ranking is made
Debt-service share = adopted debt service ÷ total adopted expenditures, both from the town's current adopted budget. Debt per resident = audited bonded long-term debt ÷ population, both from the audited indicators file for its most recent year. Pension and retiree-health obligations are separate liabilities and are not in either figure.
- School construction is the largest driver of town debt, and the state reimburses a share of eligible school projects — gross debt here does not net that out.
- Debt held by regional school districts and by separate utility or fire districts does not appear under the member towns.
- A town's own reserves matter for reading its debt; the reserves page is the companion to this one.
More rankings: reserves · spending per resident · tax rates