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Indiana · 16,484 residents

How much does Vincennes spend?

$7.7M
spent from the general fund in

2026 is the budget the town voted. A year's actual spending is audited and published after it ends; the latest on file is 2025.

$468 per resident · $926 in towns its size · 2026 budget voted: $10.3M · all funds, 2026: $23.3M voted

2026 is the budget the town voted. A year's actual spending is audited and published after it ends; the latest on file is 2025.

What is Vincennes's money for?

Click a category to see what it pays for.

By categoryShare of budget against towns of the same size$7.7M

“elsewhere”: what towns the same size usually devoteVincennes devotes a larger share of its budgeta smaller share

Shares of the town's general-fund spending. “Elsewhere”: the median share among the towns of the state closest in population — half give more, half less. A town that pays for a category from another fund is left out of that median.

Compare with a town of the same size in Indiana

Vincennes versus Crawfordsville
VincennesCrawfordsville
Spending
$468 · $933 per residenttowns its size: $926
Police, fire and public safety
$0 · $391 per residenttowns its size: $462
Debt
$1,647 · $1,470 per residenttowns its size: $1,709

Per resident, 2025 accounts, against the towns of Indiana closest in population. A town above or below is not better or worse run.

What it builds, levies and owes

What it builds

$3.1Mof construction and equipment voted for 2026 · $190 per resident · +58.0% vs 2025

Construction and equipment in the budget the town voted for 2026, all its funds together. Indiana publishes what was actually spent for the general fund only, where towns rarely build.

Where it goes (7 lines)
Economic Dev Income Tax Cedit$2.4M
Motor Vehicle Highway$330,000
Cumulative Capital Development$180,000
Police Department$100,000
Local Income Tax$81,000
Cumulative Capital Imp$27,111
Building Inspector$1,000

Property tax

$2.3516per $100 of assessed value · set for 2026 · −8.7% since 2022

The 20 towns of its size: $1.2180 · $13.3M to be raised

The civil city's or town's certified rate, all its funds, as the Department of Local Government Finance certifies it for the year taxes are paid. The county, the township, the schools and the library add their own. Indiana caps a homestead's total bill at 1% of its value.

What it owes

$27.2Mowed at the end of 2025 · $1,647 per resident

$1,709 in towns its size · $5.1M of principal due within a year · +2.5% since 2017

Its largest loans and bonds (of 9)
2021 BondsWater Department · General Obligation Bonds$6.5M
2023 BondsSewer Department · General Obligation Bonds$6.1M
2016 Construction BondsWater Department · General Obligation Bonds$4.1M
2018 BondsSewer Department · General Obligation Bonds$2.7M
2018 BondsWater Department · General Obligation Bonds$2.6M
2016 Construction BondsSewer Department · General Obligation Bonds$1.8M
General Obligation Bonds Series 2024Governmental Activities · General Obligation Bonds$1.6M
Vincennes Redevelopment Commission Tax Increment Revenue Bonds 2018Governmental Activities · Revenue Bonds$1.5M
General Obligation Bonds Series 2021 BGovernmental Activities · General Obligation Bonds$255,000

Every fund of the town, its utilities included: a water or sewer revenue bond is repaid from the bills, not from taxes. Source: the town's Annual Financial Report filed with the Indiana State Board of Accounts.

Voted for 2026

$10.3MThe budget the town adopted for 2026, by category. Its actual spending is not on file yet.

By category

Understand

What this page covers

General fund only, on both sides: the line-item budget each city or town files with the state, and what it actually disbursed, by department. The state publishes departmental actuals for the general fund alone.

Voted budget and actual spending

The voted budget is what the town approved before the year began. Actual spending is what it paid out, audited and reported to the state after the year ended. The two differ: money set aside is not always spent, and budgets are amended during the year.

Comparing with other towns in Indiana

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

Indiana Department of Local Government Finance and State Board of Accounts — Gateway (Form 1 budgets, Annual Financial Reports). The state's records ↗ Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments (population reported with the unit), 2024 file.

Source: Indiana Department of Local Government Finance and State Board of Accounts — Gateway (Form 1 budgets, Annual Financial Reports).