Civic Finance

Budgets, levies, debt, fund balance and fiscal-stress data for local governments and school districts, straight from state filings.

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Town of Knox

Town · Albany County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 010344300000

Population 2,623 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 2,622) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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AFR not filed in time for FSMS score

Listed on OSC's FSMS 2025 not-filed (municipalities); last filed in time for a score: 2018. This is filing status, not a stress designation.

Source: fsms-notfiled-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region towns

IndicatorTown of KnoxPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$563$91316th101AFR 2020, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$119$4098th101AFR 2020 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$91$31623rd73AFR 2020 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending5.6%2.4%73rd101AFR 2020 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue16.9%12.6%71st101AFR 2020 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue58.8%22.6%98th101AFR 2020 (our calc)
Levy growth0%13.2%6th1012021–2026 OSC tax tables

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$445k$890k$1.3M$1.8M20192020Revenue 2019: $1.8MRevenue 2020: $1.6MSpending 2019: $1.5MSpending 2020: $1.5M

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)
$0k$61k$121k$182k$242k20192020General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $242kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $168k

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$80k$160k$240k$320k20192020Debt outstanding 2019: $320kDebt outstanding 2020: $240kDebt service 2019: $84kDebt service 2020: $83k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$67k$134k$201k$269k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $269kTotal levy 2022: $269kTotal levy 2023: $269kTotal levy 2024: $269kTotal levy 2025: $269kTotal levy 2026: $269k

Levy as reported in OSC's annual tax tables for the year shown.

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20190 Not filedFY20200 Not filedFY20210 Not filedFY20220 Not filedFY20230 Not filedFY20240 Not filedFY20250 Not Filed

OSC's own scores and designations. 'Not filed' rows mean the AFR was not filed in time to be scored.

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)$1,779,422$1,534,251$898,069$655,886$271,556$1,001,406$393,136$83,520$319,981afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$1,599,229$1,475,813$917,894$749,964$312,083$940,695$270,349$82,816$239,981afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
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). No AFR data in OSC bulk files for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 (left blank, not estimated).

Tax cap filings (OSC)

Fiscal yearPrior levyProposed levyLevy limitLimit minus proposedLevy growthOverride planned
2019$266,525$266,525$277,829$11,3040%No
2020$266,525$266,525$277,626$11,1010%No
2021$266,525$266,525$296,976$30,4510%No
2022$266,525$266,525$276,364$9,8390%No
2023$266,525$266,525$276,337$9,8120%No
2024$266,525$266,525$272,231$5,7060%No
2025$266,525$266,525$273,066$6,5410%No
2026$266,525$266,525$277,359$10,8340%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.

OSC Fiscal Stress Monitoring System

FYStress designationFiscal scoreEnvironmental ratingEnv. scoreSource
2019Not filed–––fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020Not filed–––fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021Not filed–––fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022Not filed–––fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023Not filed–––fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024Not filed–––fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025Not Filed–––fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ
Filing status

Listed on OSC's FSMS 2025 not-filed (municipalities). Last filed in time for a score: 2018. fsms-notfiled-muni-2025 ⓘ

OSC audits (3)

Source: osc-audits ⓘ. Matched by entity name in the report title.

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/albany-county/knox.json