Alt30/Town of Payson

Peer benchmarks · fiscal year 2022

Four things a lender would ask about.

Scored against towns of 10,000 to 24,999 residents across the country. Categories with no grade are absent from the source data rather than bad.

D

Money coming in

C

Living within its means

D

What the town owes

No
data

Cash on hand

6 of 7

measures that can actually be verified

15,947

residents in 2022

How much revenue does the town collect per resident?

C
lowertypical town $2,049better

$2,572 · ahead of 65 in 100 comparable towns

How much of the money does the town raise itself?

F
lowertypical town 86.3%better

66.7% · ahead of 13 in 100 comparable towns

Is the money spread across several sources, or concentrated?

F
lowertypical town 0.708better

0.612 · ahead of 21 in 100 comparable towns

Did the town take in more than it spent?

B
lowertypical town 1.05better

1.23 · ahead of 77 in 100 comparable towns

How much of the spending went into building and fixing things?

D
lowertypical town 10.4%better

7.6% · ahead of 38 in 100 comparable towns

How much debt is there per resident?

D
bettertypical town $1,161higher

$1,978 · 79 in 100 comparable towns are lower

Why the overall grade of D is not shown

The source averages all 7 measures, including those built on missing values read as zero, which makes the headline grade describe our data coverage rather than the town. This page is 2022; the budget pages are FY 2026-27.