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

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County of Livingston

County · Livingston County · Rochester · OSC municipal code 240100000000

Population 61,438 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 61,577) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 53.9% of gross expenditures (FY 2025); threshold > 50%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2024 (by $260,951, override planned), 2025 (by $1,335,164, override planned), 2026 (by $909,054, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Rochester counties

IndicatorCounty of LivingstonPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$3,386$2,74393rd7AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$578$60236th7AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$615$32264th7AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending0.8%1.2%21st7AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue17.6%16.5%64th7AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue22.1%31.1%7th7AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)53.9%53%64th7OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years33.6%33.6%50th7AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth18.4%10%79th72021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)03.425th6OSC FSMS FY2025

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$54.5M$109M$164M$218M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $174MRevenue 2020: $162MRevenue 2021: $170MRevenue 2022: $178MRevenue 2023: $204MRevenue 2024: $213MRevenue 2025: $218MSpending 2019: $164MSpending 2020: $161MSpending 2021: $156MSpending 2022: $173MSpending 2023: $179MSpending 2024: $199MSpending 2025: $208M

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)
$-2.5M$1.0M$4.5M$8.1M$11.6M2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $6.4MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $7.8MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $11.6MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $8.6MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $7.2MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $6.1MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-2.5M

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$10.8M$21.5M$32.3M$43.1M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $43.1MDebt outstanding 2020: $39.4MDebt outstanding 2021: $35.7MDebt outstanding 2022: $29.3MDebt outstanding 2023: $25.5MDebt outstanding 2024: $32.9MDebt outstanding 2025: $37.8MDebt service 2019: $3.6MDebt service 2020: $5.4MDebt service 2021: $3.4MDebt service 2022: $4.3MDebt service 2023: $3.5MDebt service 2024: $3.8MDebt service 2025: $1.7M

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$8.8M$17.6M$26.4M$35.1M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $29.7MTotal levy 2022: $29.1MTotal levy 2023: $30.5MTotal levy 2024: $31.6MTotal levy 2025: $33.7MTotal levy 2026: $35.1M

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202358.2%FY202456.6%FY202553.9%

Assigned + unassigned general fund balance ÷ gross expenditures, as computed by OSC.

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20193.3 No DesignationFY20200 No DesignationFY20210 No DesignationFY20223.3 No DesignationFY20233.3 No DesignationFY20243.3 No DesignationFY20250 No Designation

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)$173,771,682$163,960,733$111,584,775$105,138,987$31,241,541$35,662,976$27,516,259$3,607,098$43,067,173afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$161,980,315$160,872,313$106,715,394$98,870,431$31,593,580$35,970,370$22,829,116$5,387,019$39,394,097afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$170,290,556$155,685,224$113,273,303$101,674,550$32,329,602$42,152,320$25,438,743$3,445,268$35,653,678afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$178,042,566$173,484,830$122,924,075$114,341,063$31,646,614$44,903,047$25,398,268$4,265,575$29,298,799afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$204,380,423$178,930,499$130,598,039$123,430,754$32,041,252$48,178,866$30,715,601$3,458,524$25,502,341afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$212,509,185$198,986,002$142,224,218$136,081,157$33,640,822$48,681,298$37,325,335$3,759,676$32,879,831afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$218,170,279$208,011,110$141,431,025$143,957,902$35,495,453$48,288,661$38,340,981$1,693,630$37,762,749afr-2025 ⓘ · debt-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$28,455,686$29,037,550$29,040,035$2,4852%No
2020$29,037,550$29,463,611$29,793,677$330,0661.5%No
2021$29,463,611$29,683,701$30,363,964$680,2630.8%No
2022$29,683,701$29,154,579$30,814,537$1,659,958-1.8%No
2023$29,154,579$30,520,427$30,310,777$-209,6504.7%Yes
2024$30,520,427$31,568,211$31,307,260$-260,9513.4%Yes
2025$31,568,211$33,672,453$32,337,289$-1,335,1646.7%Yes
2026$33,672,453$35,253,549$34,344,495$-909,0544.7%Yes

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
2019No Designation3.3No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0No Designation26.7fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation0No Designation20fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation3.3No Designation20fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation3.3No Designation20fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation3.3No Designation20fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation0No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 58.2% ($71,806,972 of $123,430,754) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 56.6% ($77,005,837 of $136,081,157) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 53.9% ($77,580,220 of $143,957,902) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/livingston-county/livingston-county-board-of-supervisors.json