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Charlton Fire District

Fire district · Saratoga County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 411114702500

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

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Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorCharlton Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending45.4%13.1%97th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0.5%0%98th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years5.5%17.4%33rd98AFR 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$188k$375k$563k$751k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $314kRevenue 2020: $487kRevenue 2021: $658kRevenue 2022: $512kRevenue 2023: $522kRevenue 2024: $541kRevenue 2025: $570kSpending 2019: $751kSpending 2020: $329kSpending 2021: $374kSpending 2022: $386kSpending 2023: $455kSpending 2024: $389kSpending 2025: $394k

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)
$-436k$-256k$-76k$104k$284k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-436kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $159kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $284kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $126kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $67kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $146kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $176k

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$925k$1.9M$2.8M$3.7M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $3.7MDebt outstanding 2020: $3.6MDebt outstanding 2021: $3.5MDebt outstanding 2022: $3.5MDebt outstanding 2023: $3.4MDebt outstanding 2024: $3.3MDebt outstanding 2025: $3.2MDebt service 2019: $0kDebt service 2020: $177kDebt service 2021: $179kDebt service 2022: $177kDebt service 2023: $179kDebt service 2024: $177kDebt service 2025: $179k

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)$314,494$750,759$314,494$750,759$300,016$0$0$0$3,700,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$487,423$328,500$487,423$328,500$482,581$0$0$176,565$3,625,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$657,613$373,581$657,613$373,581$482,581$0$0$178,956$3,545,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$512,220$386,299$512,220$386,299$492,480$0$0$176,556$3,465,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$522,270$455,455$522,270$455,455$503,806$0$0$179,156$3,380,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$541,071$388,940$541,071$394,807$513,956$0$2,500$176,606$3,295,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$570,021$394,130$570,021$394,130$523,407$0$2,850$179,056$3,205,000afr-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$300,016$300,016$316,201$16,1850%No
2020$300,016$482,581$313,299$-169,28260.9%Yes
2021$482,581$483,081$496,040$12,9590.1%No
2022$483,081$492,580$505,160$12,5802%No
2023$492,480$503,706$513,674$9,9682.3%No
2024$503,706$513,956$529,449$15,4932%No
2025$513,956$523,407$534,484$11,0771.8%No
2026$523,407$537,881$545,256$7,3752.8%No
2027$537,881$559,251$559,251$04%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/saratoga-county/fd-charlton-fire-district.json