{
 "metadata": {
  "source": "CT Office of Policy and Management — Municipal Fiscal Indicators (Uniform Chart of Accounts program)",
  "dataset_id": "ej6f-y2wf",
  "dataset_name": "Municipal Fiscal Indicators: Individual Town Data, 2014-2023",
  "landing_page": "https://data.ct.gov/d/ej6f-y2wf",
  "source_url": "https://data.ct.gov/resource/ej6f-y2wf.json",
  "program_page": "https://portal.ct.gov/opm/igp-munfins/municipal-financial-services/municipal-fiscal-indicators",
  "pulled": "2026-08-25",
  "dataset_last_updated": "2026-03-03",
  "recipe": "python Data/fetch_ct_ucoa.py (Python 3, standard library, no API key)",
  "row_count_source": 1700,
  "entity_count": 170,
  "entity_note": "170 entities = 169 towns plus Groton (City), a sub-municipality reported separately from Groton (Town).",
  "fiscal_year_note": "OPM fiscal_year_end Y = the fiscal year ending June 30 of year Y. 2023 = FY 2022-23.",
  "basis_note": "Audited year-end ACTUAL expenditures and revenues across governmental funds, compiled from the ACFRs municipalities file with OPM. This is NOT the adopted general-fund budget used elsewhere on this site: OPM totals are gross of grant pass-throughs (ESSER, Title I, IDEA, food service) and therefore run several million dollars higher for New Fairfield. The two series are not interchangeable.",
  "self_reporting_note": "OPM compiled the figures itself through FY 2019; from FY 2020 forward municipalities self-report their own audited data.",
  "revaluation_note": "Nominal mill rates step down when a town revalues. Use equalized_mill_rate for comparisons across towns or across time. Revaluation grand list years for New Fairfield: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019.",
  "coverage": "FY 2013-14 through FY 2022-23. This is the full span OPM publishes town-by-town as of the pull date; FY 2023-24 and FY 2024-25 are not yet released.",
  "fields": {
   "population_state_dept_of_public_health": "Population, CT Dept of Public Health estimate",
   "school_enrollment_average": "Average Daily Membership enrollment, CT State Dept of Education",
   "unemployment_annual_average": "Unemployment rate, annual average (0-1)",
   "equalized_net_grand_list": "Equalized net grand list (grand list restated to full fair market value)",
   "equalized_mill_rate": "Equalized mill rate — tax per $1,000 of fair market value; comparable across towns and across revaluation cycles",
   "net_grand_list": "Net taxable grand list as assessed (70% of market value at last revaluation)",
   "mill_rate_real_estate_personal": "Nominal mill rate on real estate and personal property",
   "total_taxes_collected_as": "Total taxes collected as a share of total outstanding (0-1)",
   "property_tax_revenues": "Property tax revenues",
   "intergovernmental_revenues": "Intergovernmental revenues (state and federal aid)",
   "total_revenues": "Total revenues",
   "total_revenues_and_other": "Total revenues and other financing sources",
   "education_expenditures": "Education expenditures",
   "operating_expenditures": "Operating (non-education) expenditures",
   "total_expenditures": "Total expenditures",
   "total_expenditures_and_other": "Total expenditures and other financing uses",
   "unassigned": "Unassigned fund balance",
   "total_fund_balance": "Total fund balance (deficit)",
   "net_pension_liability": "Net pension liability",
   "net_opeb_liability": "Net OPEB (retiree health) liability",
   "bonded_long_term_debt": "Bonded long-term debt outstanding",
   "annual_debt_service": "Annual debt service (principal and interest paid)"
  },
  "groups_note": "Surrounding towns = The towns sharing a land border with New Fairfield; DRG B = The official 2006 CT SDE District Reference Group this town belongs to. Excludes Region 15, Region 5 - regional districts and academies are not municipalities and have no row in the municipal datasets. Group medians exclude New Fairfield."
 },
 "target": "New Fairfield",
 "fiscal_year_end": [
  "2014",
  "2015",
  "2016",
  "2017",
  "2018",
  "2019",
  "2020",
  "2021",
  "2022",
  "2023"
 ],
 "fiscal_years": [
  "13-14",
  "14-15",
  "15-16",
  "16-17",
  "17-18",
  "18-19",
  "19-20",
  "20-21",
  "21-22",
  "22-23"
 ],
 "groups": {
  "surrounding": [
   "New Fairfield",
   "Brookfield",
   "Danbury",
   "New Milford",
   "Sherman"
  ],
  "drg_b": [
   "New Fairfield",
   "Avon",
   "Brookfield",
   "Cheshire",
   "Fairfield",
   "Farmington",
   "Glastonbury",
   "Granby",
   "Greenwich",
   "Guilford",
   "Madison",
   "Middlebury",
   "Monroe",
   "Newtown",
   "Orange",
   "Simsbury",
   "South Windsor",
   "Southbury",
   "Trumbull",
   "West Hartford",
   "Woodbridge"
  ]
 },
 "medians": {
  "surrounding": {
   "population_state_dept_of_public_health": [
    22264,
    22210,
    22124,
    22116,
    21988,
    21889,
    22812,
    22832,
    22909,
    22882
   ],
   "school_enrollment_average": [
    3625.845,
    3523.78,
    3442.39,
    3426.535,
    3361.295,
    3310.41,
    3268.0,
    3127.5,
    3148.925,
    3133.685
   ],
   "unemployment_annual_average": [
    0.0524,
    0.0449,
    0.0418,
    0.0385,
    0.0329,
    0.0311,
    0.0733,
    0.0562,
    0.0359,
    0.0287
   ],
   "equalized_net_grand_list": [
    3599740276,
    3644699406,
    3653115077,
    3718605632,
    3686859556,
    3891709302,
    4061735268,
    4082881657,
    4183826716,
    4929304256
   ],
   "equalized_mill_rate": [
    17.876,
    18.1501,
    18.4421,
    18.3546,
    18.8661,
    18.6197,
    18.276,
    18.0328,
    16.8222,
    15.17
   ],
   "net_grand_list": [
    2533140196,
    2551898980,
    2571452763,
    2570397236,
    2557737558,
    2569556224,
    2593438628,
    2620007439,
    2703407701,
    2979286619
   ],
   "mill_rate_real_estate_personal": [
    25.625,
    26.0,
    26.225,
    26.585,
    27.27,
    27.885,
    28.15,
    28.14,
    27.785,
    27.05
   ],
   "total_taxes_collected_as": [
    0.9764,
    0.9798,
    0.9828,
    0.98,
    0.9798,
    0.9778,
    0.9759,
    0.9836,
    0.9866,
    0.9853
   ],
   "property_tax_revenues": [
    65112305,
    66993724,
    67933470,
    68477230,
    70251388,
    72614896,
    75160581,
    76575308,
    79198878,
    82054518
   ],
   "intergovernmental_revenues": [
    15653070,
    15495192,
    15779580,
    14846215,
    14014248,
    16488285,
    16470136,
    16327914,
    16974953,
    18722790
   ],
   "total_revenues": [
    83709270,
    85571870,
    86579378,
    86295225,
    87774875,
    93094276,
    95230732,
    96588498,
    99936959,
    106590556
   ],
   "total_revenues_and_other": [
    94200674,
    86968116,
    87774780,
    88124245,
    89469597,
    94432330,
    99349744,
    97489182,
    102732242,
    108643679
   ],
   "education_expenditures": [
    54608586,
    55825570,
    57525110,
    56990767,
    58049104,
    60939887,
    60844562,
    61413754,
    63595272,
    67619662
   ],
   "operating_expenditures": [
    27540921,
    27997296,
    27700020,
    27587488,
    28129470,
    29931584,
    28300679,
    29625442,
    30540410,
    32804303
   ],
   "total_expenditures": [
    82149506,
    83822866,
    85225130,
    84578256,
    86178575,
    90871472,
    89145242,
    91039196,
    94135682,
    100423964
   ],
   "total_expenditures_and_other": [
    92943581,
    86669967,
    87560715,
    86961291,
    88545410,
    93158662,
    96587660,
    95551768,
    103358226,
    107316260
   ],
   "unassigned": [
    10078689,
    10754074,
    11413355,
    11733892,
    11559024,
    13974664,
    14552279,
    15892177,
    16491416,
    17487650
   ],
   "total_fund_balance": [
    12831852,
    13130001,
    13344066,
    14507020,
    14825316,
    16098984,
    18861068,
    20798482,
    20172498,
    21499917
   ],
   "net_pension_liability": [
    null,
    7391452,
    11417256,
    8109926,
    7184666,
    7208231,
    7972344,
    5653968,
    13320308,
    14274824
   ],
   "net_opeb_liability": [
    null,
    null,
    null,
    null,
    17092024,
    14823674,
    16327116,
    15583323,
    14470098,
    11004756
   ],
   "bonded_long_term_debt": [
    29456026,
    26560712,
    23579830,
    25770503,
    32316924,
    32705776,
    37955748,
    54421584,
    70251026,
    83543339
   ],
   "annual_debt_service": [
    5037959,
    4995180,
    4618497,
    5085600,
    4692344,
    5006511,
    4611501,
    4730425,
    5045776,
    6071609
   ],
   "total_expenditures_per_capita": [
    3693.72,
    3769.45,
    3789.73,
    3838.5,
    3925.39,
    4009.09,
    3954.23,
    4050.31,
    3990.46,
    4291.77
   ],
   "bonded_long_term_debt_per_capita": [
    1997.06,
    1900.01,
    1844.39,
    1784.49,
    1704.47,
    1595.38,
    1448.08,
    1504.12,
    1400.03,
    1811.08
   ]
  },
  "drg_b": {
   "population_state_dept_of_public_health": [
    23194,
    23349,
    23342,
    23618,
    23598,
    23764,
    23280,
    23419,
    23477,
    23486
   ],
   "school_enrollment_average": [
    3796.225,
    3740.985,
    3749.345,
    3735.675,
    3759.065,
    3703.53,
    3690.34,
    3612.085,
    3725.12,
    3719.685
   ],
   "unemployment_annual_average": [
    0.0495,
    0.0427,
    0.0386,
    0.0354,
    0.0295,
    0.0282,
    0.0611,
    0.0485,
    0.0329,
    0.027
   ],
   "equalized_net_grand_list": [
    3781903346,
    3776419720,
    3946757737,
    3900469401,
    4005487360,
    4082435870,
    4096768492,
    4433128626,
    5093268414,
    5621879224
   ],
   "equalized_mill_rate": [
    20.4687,
    20.8256,
    20.8631,
    21.788,
    21.7544,
    22.2161,
    22.8373,
    22.0395,
    20.0894,
    18.8226
   ],
   "net_grand_list": [
    2785222132,
    2628752418,
    2652296034,
    2671517590,
    2687738360,
    2761145072,
    2784863281,
    2848890926,
    2917610572,
    3000877511
   ],
   "mill_rate_real_estate_personal": [
    29.635,
    30.525,
    31.045,
    31.695,
    32.61,
    32.565,
    33.31,
    33.98,
    34.43,
    33.98
   ],
   "total_taxes_collected_as": [
    0.9872,
    0.9875,
    0.9881,
    0.9869,
    0.9879,
    0.9876,
    0.9882,
    0.988,
    0.9895,
    0.9882
   ],
   "property_tax_revenues": [
    79751162,
    82326226,
    84254404,
    85989523,
    88188878,
    90015022,
    92741928,
    94190548,
    97780668,
    100857496
   ],
   "intergovernmental_revenues": [
    13889218,
    12612322,
    13295654,
    17336526,
    17271306,
    13309207,
    15270668,
    16206696,
    15823524,
    19319740
   ],
   "total_revenues": [
    96595002,
    96654396,
    99783386,
    106798490,
    109614944,
    103974820,
    112563554,
    114126134,
    117505470,
    124212865
   ],
   "total_revenues_and_other": [
    96892343,
    97094554,
    102781302,
    107364286,
    109878562,
    110096951,
    117563179,
    114612359,
    123765146,
    127176779
   ],
   "education_expenditures": [
    62844658,
    63319455,
    65901429,
    72039907,
    74691872,
    69904278,
    73621873,
    74533098,
    78261211,
    81668742
   ],
   "operating_expenditures": [
    30309082,
    28762532,
    29664310,
    30457300,
    30670932,
    32676667,
    33000250,
    34333262,
    38407689,
    36767126
   ],
   "total_expenditures": [
    94292581,
    95074360,
    97495763,
    104761530,
    107521560,
    105314660,
    108580422,
    110933030,
    116426542,
    121184022
   ],
   "total_expenditures_and_other": [
    96144188,
    96030906,
    102189742,
    105975900,
    108509650,
    108429861,
    116123192,
    114020866,
    122339373,
    126191842
   ],
   "unassigned": [
    8744343,
    9225880,
    9684102,
    9974807,
    11998218,
    13337448,
    15436348,
    15534150,
    17809482,
    18798716
   ],
   "total_fund_balance": [
    9949420,
    10819856,
    11262523,
    12549948,
    13721266,
    15935272,
    17607161,
    20414800,
    20525012,
    21573492
   ],
   "net_pension_liability": [
    null,
    13015998,
    16759870,
    16614515,
    15995488,
    16424226,
    21091205,
    13307595,
    22178308,
    19489666
   ],
   "net_opeb_liability": [
    null,
    null,
    null,
    null,
    19502973,
    18584768,
    20548662,
    18832023,
    15085978,
    15236044
   ],
   "bonded_long_term_debt": [
    42894050,
    46076208,
    41777870,
    40080063,
    51987527,
    48239535,
    48612346,
    59867893,
    66946866,
    64093235
   ],
   "annual_debt_service": [
    5825604,
    6560734,
    6862206,
    7092693,
    6540912,
    7337030,
    7205512,
    7898256,
    7772060,
    7446188
   ],
   "total_expenditures_per_capita": [
    4220.53,
    4242.3,
    4361.17,
    4601.0,
    4742.04,
    4674.05,
    4859.99,
    4977.87,
    5224.59,
    5398.26
   ],
   "bonded_long_term_debt_per_capita": [
    2210.18,
    2320.61,
    2215.47,
    2151.93,
    2544.84,
    2545.79,
    2534.17,
    2542.09,
    2563.68,
    2389.94
   ]
  }
 },
 "drg_key": "drg_b",
 "drg_letter": "B"
}