Budget Explorer · City of Oklahoma City

Where the money comes from, and where it goes

Comparable revenue, spending, and debt for City of Oklahoma City, 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 Oklahoma City's own FY2027 budget, in its own structure, follows below.

Audited actuals · Census classification · 695K residents

At a glance

Total revenue

$1.98B

$2,853 per resident

Total spending

$1.94B

$2,795 per resident

Spending per resident

$2,795

36th percentile of 71

Debt outstanding

$2.69B

$3,869 per resident · 51st percentile of 70

Own-source share

89%

82nd percentile of 71

Capital share

30%

87th percentile of 71

Where the money comes from

$1.98B 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$151M8%
General sales tax$723M36%
Selective sales taxes$74M4%
License & other taxes$30M2%
Federal aid$64M3%
State & local aid$123M6%
Charges & fees$385M19%
Interest, fines, other$177M9%
Utility revenue$255M13%

Own-source share of general revenue 89% · federal aid 4% · property tax is 15% of taxes

Where it goes

$1.94B 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$468M24%
Utilities (water, power, gas)$360M19%
Transportation$345M18%
General government$251M13%
Culture & recreation$236M12%
Environment & housing$206M11%
Interest on debt$70M4%
Health & hospitals$7.0M0%

Show top functions with operating vs. capital ▸

Function	Category	Operating	Capital	Total
Water utility	Utilities (water, power, gas)	$109M	$251M	$360M
Police protection	Public safety	$223M	$20M	$243M
Parks & recreation	Culture & recreation	$147M	$84M	$231M
Fire protection	Public safety	$197M	$7.2M	$204M
General (unallocable)	General government	$113M	$74M	$187M
Highways	Transportation	$112M	$66M	$177M
Sewerage	Environment & housing	$117M	$4.6M	$122M
Air transportation	Transportation	$55M	$43M	$97M
Transit	Transportation	$59M	$5.8M	$65M
Solid waste management	Environment & housing	$42M	—	$42M
Housing & community development	Environment & housing	$37M	$4.9M	$42M
Central staff services	General government	$21M	$4.2M	$25M
Judicial & legal	General government	$21M	$848K	$21M
Protective inspection & regulation	Public safety	$21M	—	$21M

Trend · 3 fiscal years

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

Revenue

+13% over 2 yrs

$1.75B → $1.98B

Spending

+38% over 2 yrs

$1.40B → $1.94B

Debt outstanding

+12% over 2 yrs

$2.39B → $2.69B

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 Oklahoma City	Cohort median	Percentile	Higher means
Spending per resident	$2,795	$3,741	36th	more spent per resident
Revenue per resident	$2,853	$3,548	29th	more raised per resident
Taxes per resident	$1,408	$1,328	57th	heavier own-tax load
Debt per resident	$3,869	$3,865	51st	more borrowed per resident
Own-source share of revenue	89%	81%	82nd	less dependent on aid
Federal aid share of revenue	4%	7%	25th	more exposed to federal cuts
Capital share of spending	30%	18%	87th	more building, less operating
Interest share of spending	4%	4%	49th	more spend servicing debt
Debt ÷ annual revenue	1.36×	1.05×	69th	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 402109209170 (Oklahoma City City). Retrieved 2026-09-07. Classification manual.

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Adopted budget · FY2027

City of Oklahoma City'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 17 departments.

$639M total

Police$191M30%
Fire$141M22%
Non-Departmental Operating$93M15%
Parks & Recreation$46M7%
Public Transportation and Parking$43M7%
Public Works$38M6%
Development Services$24M4%
Finance$12M2%
Municipal Counselor$10.0M2%
Municipal Court$9.7M2%
Planning$7.7M1%
General Services$6.9M1%
All other (5)$17M3%

Parsed from the published budget book (pages 67-67) — General Fund only.
Figures are checked against the total the document itself prints before publishing.
General Fund only; the all-funds view in this book is by fund rather than by department.
An adjacent page repeats the same department names as position counts.
Source: FY2027 Adopted Budget (published budget book), retrieved 2026-09-08. Open the source document.

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