California cities

$103.1B

spent by 482 cities in FY2024

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Los Angeles3,822,238 residents · $19.3B in FY2024$5,056 per resident San Diego1,381,162 residents · $4.5B in FY2024$3,243 per resident San Jose971,233 residents · $3.2B in FY2024$3,284 per resident San FranciscoA city and county: its own section, with its own budget Fresno545,567 residents · $1.1B in FY2024$2,014 per resident Sacramento528,001 residents · $1.4B in FY2024$2,736 per resident Long Beach451,307 residents · $2.1B in FY2024$4,705 per resident Oakland430,553 residents · $2.0B in FY2024$4,687 per resident Bakersfield410,647 residents · $617.8M in FY2024$1,504 per resident Anaheim344,461 residents · $1.3B in FY2024$3,898 per resident Stockton321,819 residents · $592.5M in FY2024$1,841 per resident Riverside320,764 residents · $1.0B in FY2024$3,181 per resident Irvine313,685 residents · $600.8M in FY2024$1,915 per resident Santa Ana308,189 residents · $703.6M in FY2024$2,283 per resident Chula Vista279,170 residents · $436.6M in FY2024$1,564 per resident Fremont223,871 residents · $384.2M in FY2024$1,716 per resident Santa Clarita221,345 residents · $273.4M in FY2024$1,235 per resident San Bernardino220,328 residents · $336.2M in FY2024$1,526 per resident Modesto218,069 residents · $427.9M in FY2024$1,962 per resident Fontana212,475 residents · $382.9M in FY2024$1,802 per resident Moreno Valley211,924 residents · $264.9M in FY2024$1,250 per resident Oxnard200,415 residents · $490.1M in FY2024$2,446 per resident Huntington Beach194,310 residents · $426.6M in FY2024$2,196 per resident Glendale189,221 residents · $784.3M in FY2024$4,145 per resident Ontario179,061 residents · $764.8M in FY2024$4,271 per resident Elk Grove178,997 residents · $182.0M in FY2024$1,017 per resident Santa Rosa176,938 residents · $421.1M in FY2024$2,380 per resident Rancho Cucamonga176,336 residents · $246.9M in FY2024$1,400 per resident Oceanside172,199 residents · $432.3M in FY2024$2,510 per resident Garden Grove171,366 residents · $347.7M in FY2024$2,029 per resident Lancaster169,185 residents · $288.2M in FY2024$1,704 per resident Palmdale163,463 residents · $252.8M in FY2024$1,546 per resident Salinas161,020 residents · $235.1M in FY2024$1,460 per resident Hayward159,827 residents · $424.8M in FY2024$2,658 per resident Corona159,567 residents · $384.6M in FY2024$2,411 per resident Roseville154,817 residents · $707.3M in FY2024$4,568 per resident Sunnyvale153,091 residents · $518.0M in FY2024$3,384 per resident Escondido149,943 residents · $289.1M in FY2024$1,928 per resident Pomona148,338 residents · $350.3M in FY2024$2,361 per resident Visalia143,966 residents · $229.7M in FY2024$1,596 per resident

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What this page covers

All the city's own funds, actual spending, as it reports it to the State Controller each year: the general and special funds, capital outlay and debt service, and each business the city runs (water, sewer, electricity, airport, port, transit, hospital). The internal service fund, which re-spends what departments already paid it, and depreciation, an accounting charge rather than money spent, are left out. California collects no voted budgets.

Comparing with other cities in California

Each state collects its towns' figures in its own way. Some report the general fund only, others every fund; some include schools and others leave them to separate school districts. Per-resident figures are compared between towns of the same state only. A few cities also do the work of a county — San Francisco and Jacksonville among them — and spend far more per resident than a city of the same size.

Source

California State Controller's Office — Cities Annual Report (By the Numbers). The state's records ↗

Other states (not updated): Massachusetts · Indiana · Iowa · Florida

Source: California State Controller's Office — Cities Annual Report (By the Numbers).