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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Village of Castleton-On-Hudson

Village · Rensselaer County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 380475300790

Population 1,463 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 1,471) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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Rapid debt growth our calculation

Debt outstanding rose from $2,547,043 (2019) to $5,398,450 (2021), +112%.

Source: debt-2019 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ

AFR not filed in time for FSMS score

Listed on OSC's FSMS 2025 not-filed (municipalities); last filed in time for a score: 2021. This is filing status, not a stress designation.

Source: fsms-notfiled-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region villages

IndicatorVillage of Castleton-On-HudsonPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$1,017$1,29537th47AFR 2021, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$307$38037th47AFR 2021 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$3,690$1,15382nd42AFR 2021 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending14.1%6.5%80th48AFR 2021 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue5.4%5.9%45th48AFR 2021 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue8.3%14%36th48AFR 2021 (our calc)
Levy growth8.2%10.7%33rd462021–2026 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$450k$901k$1.4M$1.8M201920202021Revenue 2019: $1.8MRevenue 2020: $1.6MRevenue 2021: $1.7MSpending 2019: $1.7MSpending 2020: $1.4MSpending 2021: $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)
$-8k$18k$44k$71k$97k201920202021General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-8kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $97kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $93k

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$1.3M$2.7M$4.0M$5.4M201920202021Debt outstanding 2019: $2.5MDebt outstanding 2020: $2.4MDebt outstanding 2021: $5.4MDebt service 2019: $212kDebt service 2020: $209kDebt service 2021: $211k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$120k$241k$361k$482k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $445kTotal levy 2022: $454kTotal levy 2023: $454kTotal levy 2024: $463kTotal levy 2025: $472kTotal levy 2026: $482k

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20190 No DesignationFY20200 Not filedFY202121.7 No DesignationFY20220 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 2019-05-31)$1,801,381$1,656,080$1,111,726$1,120,083$433,526$130,592$128,680$211,523$2,547,043afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-05-31)$1,555,111$1,358,847$852,546$755,406$437,673$137,565$23,177$209,146$2,443,723afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-05-31)$1,703,917$1,488,533$944,743$851,761$448,817$141,854$92,161$210,627$5,398,450afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
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 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 (left blank, not estimated).

Tax cap filings (OSC)

Fiscal yearPrior levyProposed levyLevy limitLimit minus proposedLevy growthOverride planned
2019$420,434$428,843$443,809$14,9662%No
2020$428,843$437,420$444,077$6,6572%No
2021$437,420$445,206$452,620$7,4141.8%No
2022$444,105$454,110$461,931$7,8212.3%No
2023$454,110$454,110$472,761$18,6510%No
2024$448,572$463,192$465,916$2,7243.3%No
2025$463,192$472,456$476,236$3,7802%No
2026$472,456$481,905$489,003$7,0982%No
2027$481,472$491,101$501,972$10,8712%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
2019No Designation0No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020Not filed–––fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation21.7No Designation26.7fsms-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: 2021. fsms-notfiled-muni-2025 ⓘ

OSC audits (1)

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/rensselaer-county/castleton-on-hudson.json