Budget Spending per Resident — All 169 Connecticut Towns
Each town's adopted budget divided by its population: education, municipal operations, and the two combined.
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Total adopted budget per resident
Each town's whole adopted budget for — — education plus everything else — divided by its population. Sorted lowest to highest; rank 1 is the lowest figure, which describes the amount, not the town.
Source: CT OPM adopted municipal budgets (pcg4-s5rc) via ct_adopted_budgets.json; population from the US Census ACS 5-year estimates via ct_town_income.json.
Education spending per resident
The education line of each adopted budget, per resident. For towns in a regional school district this is the town's payment to that district. Towns with more school-age residents sit higher here without spending more per student.
Source: same files as above; education_expenditures field. The per-student version of this ranking is on the education spending page.
Municipal (non-education) spending per resident
Everything in the adopted budget that is not the education line — public safety, public works, general government, debt service, contingency — per resident.
Source: same files; computed as total_expenditures − education_expenditures. Debt service stays in this figure, so a town mid-way through paying for a school project ranks higher here.
The full table
All 169 towns, ranked by total budget per resident, with both components.
How this ranking is made
Each figure is the town's adopted general-fund budget for — as filed with OPM, divided by the town's population from the most recent ACS 5-year release. The adopted budget is the appropriated general fund — a narrower measure than the audited all-funds figure OPM publishes two years later, and the two must not be mixed in one series.
- Population is a 5-year pooled estimate with a margin of error; small differences between small towns are not meaningful.
- Education for regional-district towns is the town's assessment payment to the district, which folds the district's own state aid out differently than a local district's budget does.
- A handful of towns run services through separate districts (fire districts and similar) whose budgets are not in the town budget at all; those towns look lower here than what their residents actually pay in total.
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