Budget Explorer · City of Albuquerque

Where the money comes from, and where it goes

Comparable revenue, spending, and debt for City of Albuquerque, on the same Census classification used for every city, county, and state in the Library — so the figures line up with peers rather than with the government's own budget book. Latest year: FY ending Jun 30, 2024. City of Albuquerque's own FY2027 budget, in its own structure, follows below.

Audited actuals · Census classification · 561K residents

At a glance

Total revenue

$1.33B

$2,368 per resident

Total spending

$1.34B

$2,393 per resident

Spending per resident

$2,393

19th percentile of 71

Debt outstanding

$1.39B

$2,477 per resident · 25th percentile of 70

Own-source share

85%

68th percentile of 71

Capital share

11th percentile of 71

Where the money comes from

$1.33B total

Own-source revenue (taxes, charges, interest) versus aid from other governments. Utility and trust revenue are shown alongside general revenue but run on their own books.

Property tax$187M14%
General sales tax$276M21%
Selective sales taxes$23M2%
License & other taxes$46M3%
Federal aid$70M5%
State & local aid$105M8%
Charges & fees$332M25%
Interest, fines, other$125M9%
Utility revenue$166M12%

Own-source share of general revenue 85% · federal aid 6% · property tax is 35% of taxes

Where it goes

$1.34B total

Current operations plus capital outlay, grouped by Census function. Interest on debt and transfers to other governments are broken out so they are not hidden inside services.

Public safety$376M28%
Transportation$172M13%
Utilities (water, power, gas)$170M13%
Environment & housing$159M12%
Culture & recreation$131M10%
Public welfare$126M9%
General government$75M6%
Transfers to other governments$52M4%
Interest on debt$44M3%
Health & hospitals$38M3%

Show top functions with operating vs. capital ▸

Function	Category	Operating	Capital	Total
Police protection	Public safety	$255M	—	$255M
Water utility	Utilities (water, power, gas)	$139M	$31M	$170M
Public welfare	Public welfare	$126M	—	$126M
Fire protection	Public safety	$121M	—	$121M
Parks & recreation	Culture & recreation	$116M	—	$116M
Solid waste management	Environment & housing	$97M	—	$97M
Transit	Transportation	$77M	—	$77M
Air transportation	Transportation	$69M	—	$69M
Sewerage	Environment & housing	$20M	$29M	$49M
Health	Health & hospitals	$38M	—	$38M
Central staff services	General government	$28M	—	$28M
General (unallocable)	General government	$306K	$27M	$27M
Highways	Transportation	$19M	—	$19M
Libraries	Culture & recreation	$15M	—	$15M

Trend · 3 fiscal years

Nominal dollars. The Census Bureau cautions that single-government series are edited only for aggregates — read direction, not decimals.

Revenue

+8% over 2 yrs

$1.23B → $1.33B

Spending

+14% over 2 yrs

$1.18B → $1.34B

Debt outstanding

+4% over 2 yrs

$1.33B → $1.39B

How it compares · 71 cities and counties in the Library

Percentile within the cohort on each place's latest Census year. Higher is not better — the last column says what a high reading means so you can decide whether it matters here.

Measure	City of Albuquerque	Cohort median	Percentile	Higher means
Spending per resident	$2,393	$3,741	19th	more spent per resident
Revenue per resident	$2,368	$3,548	12th	more raised per resident
Taxes per resident	$948	$1,328	20th	heavier own-tax load
Debt per resident	$2,477	$3,865	25th	more borrowed per resident
Own-source share of revenue	85%	81%	68th	less dependent on aid
Federal aid share of revenue	6%	7%	42nd	more exposed to federal cuts
Capital share of spending	7%	18%	11th	more building, less operating
Interest share of spending	3%	4%	43rd	more spend servicing debt
Debt ÷ annual revenue	1.05×	1.05×	48th	more leveraged

About this data

Census classification categories, not this government's own budget structure. Figures are audited actuals for the fiscal year shown, not the adopted budget.
The Census Bureau edits unit-level data only to produce state and national aggregates and advises against reading it as a precise time series for any single government; treat year-over-year moves under ~5% as noise.
Employee-retirement-system revenue is excluded (published separately by Census). Utility and insurance-trust revenue are shown separately from general revenue.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances (Individual Unit public-use files), unit 352001170378 (Albuquerque City). Retrieved 2026-09-07. Classification manual.

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Approved budget · FY2027

City of Albuquerque's own budget, in its own structure, read from its published budget book and checked against the total the document itself prints. This is the current year — more recent than the Census series above, but only comparable to this city's own history. Totals cover 29 departments.

$1.47B total

Police Department$284M19%
Fire Department$142M10%
City Support Department$138M9%
Human Resources Department$122M8%
Solid Waste Department$84M6%
Aviation Department$78M5%
Finance and Admin Svc Dept$73M5%
Health, Housing and Homelessness Dept$66M4%
Cultural Services Dept$58M4%
Parks and Recreation Dept$57M4%
Transit$56M4%
General Services Department$51M3%
All other (17)$257M18%

Parsed from the published budget book (pages 314-314) — all fund groups, net of interfund eliminations.
Figures are checked against the total the document itself prints before publishing.
Albuquerque calls its adopted budget 'approved'.
Figures are net of interfund eliminations; the book's gross combined total is $1.57B.
Source: FY2027 Approved Budget (Combined Appropriations by Fund Group and Department) (published budget book), retrieved 2026-09-08. Open the source document.

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