Iowa towns

$7.9B

spent by 938 towns in FY2023

947 towns with a page · 9 with no FY2023 figures on file yet

All 947 towns

Spending per resident in the latest audited year. Open a town for its budget by category.

Sort by

Des Moines211,034 residents · $642.3M in FY2023$3,044 per resident Cedar Rapids136,429 residents · $667.4M in FY2023$4,892 per resident Davenport100,486 residents · $258.5M in FY2023$2,573 per resident Sioux City85,497 residents · $269.7M in FY2023$3,154 per resident Iowa City75,233 residents · $185.7M in FY2023$2,468 per resident Ankeny72,222 residents · $153.3M in FY2023$2,123 per resident West Des Moines70,741 residents · $243.5M in FY2023$3,442 per resident Ames66,950 residents · $423.3M in FY2023$6,322 per resident Waterloo66,562 residents · $177.5M in FY2023$2,666 per resident Council Bluffs62,405 residents · $141.4M in FY2023$2,265 per resident Dubuque58,873 residents · $184.1M in FY2023$3,128 per resident Urbandale46,648 residents · $113.8M in FY2023$2,440 per resident Marion41,864 residents · $92.2M in FY2023$2,203 per resident Cedar Falls40,746 residents · $82.0M in FY2023$2,012 per resident Bettendorf39,548 residents · $100.7M in FY2023$2,546 per resident Waukee29,167 residents · $85.3M in FY2023$2,926 per resident Marshalltown27,433 residents · $60.5M in FY2023$2,204 per resident Mason City26,924 residents · $73.9M in FY2023$2,745 per resident Ottumwa25,175 residents · $54.3M in FY2023$2,157 per resident Fort Dodge24,657 residents · $83.9M in FY2023$3,402 per resident Clinton24,391 residents · $72.5M in FY2023$2,974 per resident Johnston24,390 residents · $62.4M in FY2023$2,558 per resident Burlington23,611 residents · $68.4M in FY2023$2,898 per resident Muscatine23,413 residents · $60.6M in FY2023$2,590 per resident Coralville23,125 residents · $138.7M in FY2023$6,000 per resident Altoona21,503 residents · $71.2M in FY2023$3,310 per resident North Liberty21,399 residents · $47.2M in FY2023$2,207 per resident Clive18,908 residents · $51.4M in FY2023$2,718 per resident Grimes16,295 residents · $96.4M in FY2023$5,916 per resident Indianola16,069 residents · $63.0M in FY2023$3,920 per resident Newton15,688 residents · $37.1M in FY2023$2,365 per resident Norwalk14,177 residents · $38.1M in FY2023$2,689 per resident Boone12,469 residents · $18.5M in FY2023$1,482 per resident Oskaloosa11,482 residents · $22.0M in FY2023$1,920 per resident Spencer11,413 residents · $28.4M in FY2023$2,485 per resident Storm Lake11,307 residents · $34.2M in FY2023$3,029 per resident Pleasant Hill11,186 residents · $27.6M in FY2023$2,466 per resident Pella10,744 residents · $55.1M in FY2023$5,124 per resident Le Mars10,605 residents · $83.8M in FY2023$7,905 per resident Waverly10,522 residents · $29.2M in FY2023$2,779 per resident

Understand

What this page covers

All funds: the budget each city certifies with the state at the start of the fiscal year and what it actually spent, in the same ten functions. Actual spending is published about two years after the budget.

Comparing with other towns in Iowa

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

Iowa Department of Management — City Budget and Actual Expenditures, and City Budget Expenditures by Fund (certified budgets). The state's records ↗

Other states

Massachusetts351 towns Indiana569 towns Florida411 towns California482 towns

Source: Iowa Department of Management — City Budget and Actual Expenditures, and City Budget Expenditures by Fund (certified budgets).