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Fiscal Data
Historical county finance trends through audited FY2025 actuals, plus a separate supplemental view of final adopted FY2026 county budgets.
FY2025 values are audited primary-government ACFR actuals, not Census government-finance data. The 2024–2025 boundary is not directly comparable because the source, reporting framework, and category construction change. Broad categories run through 2025; fine-grained Census detail ends in 2024. Census also advises caution when interpreting individual governments as time series because unit data are edited to produce state and government-type estimates.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau government finance data through 2024; audited FY2025 county ACFRs; Census Vintage 2025 county population estimates; and official county FY2026 adopted budgets.Latest Data Set: FY2026 adopted budgets; FY2025 audited actuals
9 counties total revenue (2025 audited ACFR actuals)
$17,344,923,214
9 counties total expense (2025 audited ACFR actuals)
$13,857,964,261
9 counties total debt (2025 audited ACFR actuals)
$7,477,131,568
Average Per-Capita Values (2025)
Avg revenue per capita (2025 audited ACFR)
$2,879
Avg expense per capita (2025 audited ACFR)
$2,313
Avg debt per capita (2025 audited ACFR)
$1,315
Total Revenue Trend
Total Revenue across selected counties using inflation-adjusted (2026 dollars, cpi-u). FY2025 uses audited county ACFR actuals; the 2024–2025 source boundary is not directly comparable.
Historical County Finances
Spending Per Capita across selected counties using inflation-adjusted (2026 dollars, cpi-u). FY2025 uses audited county ACFR actuals; the 2024–2025 source boundary is not directly comparable.
Revenue Data
Taxes across selected counties. This broad category runs through 2025. FY2025 uses audited county ACFR actuals; the 2024–2025 source boundary is not directly comparable.
Expense Data
General Government across selected counties. This broad category runs through 2025. FY2025 uses audited county ACFR actuals; the 2024–2025 source boundary is not directly comparable.
Debt Data
Long-Term Debt Outstanding across selected counties. This broad category runs through 2025. FY2025 uses audited county ACFR actuals; the 2024–2025 source boundary is not directly comparable.
County Fiscal Snapshot (2025)
Audited FY2025 primary-government ACFR actuals with Census Vintage 2025 population estimates. FY2025 uses audited county ACFR actuals; the 2024–2025 source boundary is not directly comparable.
| Hillsborough | 2,025 | 2025-09-30 | Hillsborough County FY2025 ACFR | Audited | Activities: 30; debt: 26, 83-90, and 217 | $4,262,911,000 | $2,708 | $3,398,100,000 | $2,159 | $1,351,453,000 | $859 | 1,967 | 2,025 |
| Pinellas | 2,025 | 2025-09-30 | Pinellas County FY2025 ACFR | Audited | Activities: 19-20; debt: 72-73 and 187-188 | $2,281,032,117 | $2,405 | $1,830,141,329 | $1,929 | $100,783,704 | $106 | 1,967 | 2,025 |
| Pasco | 2,025 | 2025-09-30 | Pasco County FY2025 ACFR | Audited | Activities: D-3-D-4; debt: E-30-E-33 and H-10 | $1,700,736,862 | $2,521 | $1,201,288,134 | $1,781 | $761,287,000 | $1,129 | 1,972 | 2,025 |
| Polk | 2,025 | 2025-09-30 | Polk County FY2025 ACFR | Audited | Activities: D-3-D-4; debt: E-34 and H-16-H-19 | $1,580,227,742 | $1,806 | $1,198,837,114 | $1,370 | $349,385,864 | $399 | 1,967 | 2,025 |
| Manatee | 2,025 | 2025-09-30 | Manatee County FY2025 ACFR | Audited | Activities: 14; debt: 45 and 120 | $1,573,936,000 | $3,362 | $1,210,013,000 | $2,584 | $1,194,859,000 | $2,552 | 1,967 | 2,025 |
| Sarasota | 2,025 | 2025-09-30 | Sarasota County FY2025 ACFR | Audited | Activities: 46-47; debt: 116 and 304-305 | $1,356,264,395 | $2,826 | $1,218,555,245 | $2,539 | $1,230,309,000 | $2,563 | 1,967 | 2,025 |
| Charlotte | 2,025 | 2025-09-30 | Charlotte County FY2025 ACFR | Audited | Activities: I-22-I-23; debt: I-17 and I-68 | $920,862,616 | $4,239 | $766,003,451 | $3,527 | $170,216,000 | $784 | 1,967 | 2,025 |
| Lee | 2,025 | 2025-09-30 | Lee County FY2025 ACFR | Audited | Activities: 32; debt: 83-84 and 198 | $2,191,003,000 | $2,502 | $1,869,134,000 | $2,135 | $1,685,092,000 | $1,924 | 1,967 | 2,025 |
| Collier | 2,025 | 2025-09-30 | Collier County FY2025 ACFR | Audited | Activities: 18-19; debt: MD&A 13 and 59; statistical 176-177 | $1,477,949,482 | $3,543 | $1,165,891,988 | $2,795 | $633,746,000 | $1,519 | 1,967 | 2,025 |
FY2026 Adopted County Budgets
Final county budgets for October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026, following the county selection above and reported in nominal FY2026 dollars.
Budgets are spending plans, not audited actual results. County definitions of “net budget” differ, so use each reporting-basis note before comparing counties.
FY2026 Net Adopted Budget
County-reported net adopted budgets. Counties without a published net definition are shown as unavailable; definitions are documented in the table below.
FY2026 Adopted Budget Summary
Values are published directly or exactly reconciled from official adopted rows. Blank fields are displayed as N/A rather than estimated; calculation details in the Reporting Basis column and source URLs are retained in CSV exports.
| Charlotte | Adopted | 2025-09-23 | $2,568,692,727 | $1,572,617,620 | $0 | $888,683,000 | $763,451,711 | 4.7865 | Net countywide budget excludes interfund transfers and reserves. Gross is the sum of all adopted fund-group totals shown in the final hearing presentation. Capital is the adopted CIP's FY26 grand total. Reserves are a calculated exact total of $763,451,711 from all 332 adopted FY25/26 line items whose labels begin Rsv-. No countywide operating total is published. The millage is the General Fund component, excluding the separate countywide capital-project levy. | Final budget hearing presentation, pp. 4-9; 2026 Adopted CIP, p. C-3-19; FY26 Adopted Line Item Budget, pp. 1-1181 | Open source |
| Collier | Adopted | 2025-09-18 | $3,122,541,800 | $2,203,504,400 | $1,626,662,500 | $752,560,000 | $728,520,800 | 3.0107 | The county's Net County Budget subtracts internal-service charges and transfers from Total Budget by Fund. Operating and capital are the separately labeled adopted totals; reserves are the all-funds recommended ending fund balance, including the budgeted negative reserve for payroll attrition savings. The millage is the countywide General Fund levy, excluding other county and dependent-district levies. | FY2026 Adopted Budget, Budget Summary pp. 56 and 73-74; Capital Improvement Program p. 13-2 | Open source |
| Hillsborough | Adopted | 2025-09-18 | $12,038,325,645 | $0 | $3,930,884,745 | $3,302,520,466 | $2,632,338,131 | 5.4608 | Gross includes expenditures, transfers, and ending reserves across all displayed fund groups. Operating is a calculated exact total of $3,930,884,745: Board of County Commissioners $5,001,101 + County Attorney $11,766,120 + County Administrator $2,411,462,716 + Elected Officials $816,120,635 + Judicial Branch $21,725,222 + Boards, Commissions, and Agencies $45,421,689 + operating non-departmental components $619,387,262. Capital is the adopted Capital Improvement Program total. Reserves retain the final adopted summary's reviewed $2,632,338,131 amount. The county does not publish a countywide net budget. | FY26 County Administrator's Adopted Budget, pp. 28-30, 41, 47-49, and 350-351; FY26 Adopted Budget Summary, p. 1 | Open source |
| Lee | Adopted | 2025-09-16 | $3,015,744,114 | $0 | $1,236,881,155 | $371,206,561 | $704,067,580 | 3.7623 | The legally adopted gross budget includes transfers between funds and payments between departments. Operating, capital, and reserves are the separately labeled county totals; no countywide net budget is published. | FY25-26 Annual Budget Book, pp. 13-15 and 41 | Open source |
| Manatee | Adopted | 2025-09-22 | $3,577,708,037 | $1,368,296,426 | $0 | $97,287,411 | $992,397,314 | 6.0326 | Net new sources and uses exclude interfund transfers, internal services, nonexpendable trust funds, cash reserves, prior-year obligations, and capital carryforward. Capital is net new capital-project-fund uses; reserves are the adopted all-funds subtotal of specific operating set-asides, contingencies, salary reserves, capital reserves, and cash balance. | FY26 Adopted Budget Book, pp. 17, 121, and 142 | Open source |
| Pasco | Adopted | 2025-09-16 | $2,597,975,399 | $2,243,769,298 | $1,324,863,100 | $411,762,320 | $453,085,679 | 7.4042 | The county's OpenGov report is explicitly a net budget and excludes interfund transfers. Its operating, capital, debt-service, and reserve rows sum to the published net total. Gross is a calculated exact total of $2,597,975,399: published net budget $2,243,769,298 + $354,206,101 from all adopted interfund-transfer rows. | OpenGov report “2026 Net Budget,” five-row adopted summary; adopted expense detail, all interfund-transfer rows | Open source |
| Pinellas | Adopted | 2025-09-18 | $4,821,027,700 | $4,813,737,080 | $3,601,099,340 | $1,219,928,360 | $1,606,156,670 | 4.5423 | Gross, county-defined net, operating, capital, and reserves are the exact countywide totals published in the interactive FY26 Adopted Budget OpenBook. Gross equals the published operating and capital totals; the county-defined net and reserves are reported presentations and are not treated as additive components. | FY26 Adopted Budget OpenBook, Budget Summary and budget-by-category views | Open source |
| Polk | Adopted | 2025-09-15 | $3,464,631,333 | $0 | $2,192,814,744 | $847,808,788 | $857,966,244 | 4.9848 | Gross is total adopted appropriations. Operating excludes reserves, indirects, in-kind items, transfers, CRAs, and internal-service funds; capital is the adopted capital-outlay character; reserves are the all-funds reserves character. | FY25-26 Adopted Budget Book, pp. 58-66 and 121 | Open source |
| Sarasota | Adopted | 2025-09-24 | $2,524,495,075 | $1,957,858,217 | $1,854,271,912 | $521,094,345 | $65,716,779 | 3.2273 | The adopted total includes transfers and reserves. Operating and capital projects are the guide's labeled countywide totals. The county's net budget removes $566,636,858 of internal money shifts, including $65,716,779 of reserves, from the total adopted budget. The millage is the operating component of the countywide levy. | FY26 Adopted Budget, Budget Summary p. 2-2 (electronic p. 73); FY2026 Budget Reference Guide, p. 10 | Open source |