Metro Memos

Breakdown of City Revenue: 2015 v 2022 v 2024

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.

I was thinking about how the Arlington revenue has changed throughout the years.

I thought 3 treemaps could more easily display it.

The first is the revenue in 2015:

Then the revenue from 2022:

Then the estimated revenue for 2024:

Takeaways:

  • The growing share of Property Taxes as a percentage of revenue.
    • Houses are getting more and more expensive in Arlington.

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