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Elmwood Park Fire District

Fire district · Albany County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 011135502500

Fire districts have no Census population; per-capita figures are not calculated.

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Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorElmwood Park Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending0%13.1%16th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years366%17.4%99th98AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)

Percentile = share of same-class peers in the region with a lower value. A high or low percentile is context, not a judgment. Sales tax for towns and villages is county distribution revenue.

Five-year picture

Operating funds: revenue vs. spending RevenueSpending
$0k$589k$1.2M$1.8M$2.4M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $700kRevenue 2020: $758kRevenue 2021: $866kRevenue 2022: $731kRevenue 2023: $1.0MRevenue 2024: $1.0MRevenue 2025: $1.1MSpending 2019: $678kSpending 2020: $465kSpending 2021: $506kSpending 2022: $575kSpending 2023: $547kSpending 2024: $961kSpending 2025: $2.4M

Our calculation from OSC AFR account data: all funds except custodial (T*), capital projects (H), fixed-asset (K) and long-term debt (W) groups, excluding interfund transfers and debt proceeds.

General fund surplus / deficit General fund result (incl. transfers)
$-1.2M$-814k$-389k$36k$461k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $22kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $293kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $360kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $156kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $461kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $50kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-1.2M

OSC AFR, fund A, revenues and other sources minus expenditures and other uses (our calculation). Planned use of fund balance appears as a deficit.

Debt Debt outstandingDebt service
$0k$92k$183k$275k$366k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $366kDebt outstanding 2020: $277kDebt outstanding 2021: $187kDebt outstanding 2022: $95kDebt outstanding 2023: $0kDebt service 2019: $252kDebt service 2020: $99kDebt service 2021: $98kDebt service 2022: $98kDebt service 2023: $99kDebt service 2024: $0kDebt service 2025: $0k

Year-end debt outstanding (OSC AFR debt detail) and debt service expenditures (OSC AFR).

Annual Financial Report series

YearOperating revenueOperating spendingGF revenue (incl. transfers)GF spending (incl. transfers)Property taxSales taxState aidDebt serviceDebt outstandingSource
2019 (FYE 2019-12-31)$700,014$678,230$700,014$678,230$682,540$0$0$252,241$366,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$758,144$464,878$758,144$464,878$753,375$0$0$98,945$277,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$865,822$505,890$865,822$505,890$773,238$0$0$98,298$187,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$731,088$574,922$731,088$574,922$788,584$0$0$98,183$95,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$1,008,145$546,776$1,008,145$546,776$807,213$0$0$98,515$0afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$1,010,868$960,933$1,010,868$960,933$830,439$0$0$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$1,118,631$2,357,418$1,118,631$2,357,418$848,020$0$0$0–afr-2025 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30

Operating and property-tax figures are our sums of OSC account-level data (independent calculation, not OSC's own totals); GF = general fund (A).

Tax cap filings (OSC)

Fiscal yearPrior levyProposed levyLevy limitLimit minus proposedLevy growthOverride planned
2019$648,721$682,540$682,605$655.2%No
2020$682,540$763,775$703,775$-60,00011.9%Yes
2021$753,375$773,238$773,238$02.6%No
2022$773,238$789,334$789,334$02.1%No
2023$789,334$807,214$807,214$02.3%No
2024$807,214$830,439$830,439$02.9%No
2025$830,439$849,250$849,250$02.3%No
2026$849,250$867,967$867,967$02.2%No

Source: taxcap ⓘ, snapshot 10/09/2026. Highlighted rows: proposed levy above the computed limit. Filings are as submitted to OSC before budget adoption; a later fiscal year that has not been filed yet does not appear.

No OSC audits matched by name for this entity (osc-audits ⓘ).

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/albany-county/fd-elmwood-park-fire-district.json