Updated Breakdown of City Revenue: 2015 v 2022 v 2024

Oct 28, 2023

After writing this blog post, I realized this isn’t their entire revenue, just the revenue under the general fund. There are 6 other main revenue categories that the City of Arlington tracks.

A couple days ago I created some treemaps displaying the breakdown of city revenue.

My choice of treemaps made it a little hard to see the correct percentage of each revenue category.

So I redid them with a barplot.

The first is the revenue in 2015:

Then the revenue from 2022:

Then the estimated revenue for 2024:

These graphs make it much easier to see that the percentage of city revenue coming from Property Taxes increased abou 8% over 10 years.

2015 - 37%
2022 - 41%
2024 - 45% (estimated)

Seeing the data, the 2022 => 2024 is actually a higher increase, that’s 2% each year.

All for now.

Data Source:

Arlington’s city budgets