This tool provides easy access to state and local public finance data,
primarily from the US Census Bureau’s Census of Governments and its associated
annual survey.
Explore state and local revenue, spending, and debt from 1977 through 2021.
Pick the data you’d like to see, choose options to filter your search, and
download your results.
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Contact the Urban Institute’s State and Local Finance Initiative for help using this tool or understanding the data.
ABOUT THE DATA
These data come largely from the
US Census Bureau’s Census of Governments
and
Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances;
additional data are from the
US Bureau of Economic Analysis
and the
US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
For more information about the US Census Bureau’s descriptions of each revenue, spending, and debt variable,
see its
Government Finance and Employment Classification Manual.
See the technical appendix
for help using this tool and see the
data definitions
for more information about the variable names and codes.
A database containing all
years of the Census Bureau’s data is available in a single file through Atkinson Graduate School of Management at
Willamette University.
PROJECT CREDITS
This is a project of the
State and Local Finance Initiative, an Urban
Institute project in the
Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.
We are grateful to all our funders, who make it possible for Urban to
advance its mission. The views expressed are those of the authors and should
not be attributed to the Urban Institute, its trustees, or its funders.
Funders do not determine research findings or the insights and
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RESEARCH
Nikhita Airi,
Lucy Dadayan, and
Kim Rueben
