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 Jackson

Town · Washington County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 530342400000

Population 1,701 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 1,705) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 50.5% 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 $13,890, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region towns

IndicatorTown of JacksonPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$700$91331st101AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$477$40967th101AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$16$3168th73AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending2.5%2.4%51st101AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue26.1%12.6%91st101AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue5.1%22.6%19th101AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)50.5%48.1%54th96OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years2.5%26.7%11th100AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth14.5%13.2%60th1012021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)03.314th88OSC 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$346k$692k$1.0M$1.4M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $1.0MRevenue 2020: $1.1MRevenue 2021: $1.3MRevenue 2022: $1.2MRevenue 2023: $1.3MRevenue 2024: $1.0MRevenue 2025: $1.4MSpending 2019: $1.0MSpending 2020: $975kSpending 2021: $1.2MSpending 2022: $1.1MSpending 2023: $1.2MSpending 2024: $992kSpending 2025: $1.2M

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)
$-74k$-28k$18k$64k$110k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $0kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $29kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $110kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $73kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-21kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-74kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $57k

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$35k$70k$105k$140k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $0kDebt outstanding 2021: $140kDebt outstanding 2022: $112kDebt outstanding 2023: $84kDebt outstanding 2024: $56kDebt outstanding 2025: $28kDebt service 2019: $2kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $0kDebt service 2022: $31kDebt service 2023: $32kDebt service 2024: $32kDebt service 2025: $30k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$205k$410k$615k$821k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $717kTotal levy 2022: $728kTotal levy 2023: $757kTotal levy 2024: $791kTotal levy 2025: $807kTotal levy 2026: $821k

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202335.8%FY202446.1%FY202550.5%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY201931.7 No DesignationFY20206.7 No DesignationFY20213.3 No DesignationFY20220 No DesignationFY20230 No DesignationFY20240 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)$1,011,646$1,037,761$208,432$208,039$678,078$46,410$213,008$2,010$0afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$1,071,037$975,142$243,574$214,348$707,159$48,006$214,008$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$1,324,885$1,161,993$339,625$229,647$720,201$49,075$362,357$0$140,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$1,236,241$1,116,346$284,228$210,961$731,780$57,280$312,999$31,141$112,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$1,272,509$1,220,911$199,016$219,969$760,539$59,348$372,627$31,579$84,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$1,015,234$992,307$237,928$311,497$795,638$66,768$29,839$31,625$56,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$1,383,744$1,191,192$409,527$352,740$811,434$70,157$361,343$30,196$28,000afr-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$650,020$673,311$665,706$-7,6053.6%Yes
2020$673,311$703,124$693,645$-9,4794.4%Yes
2021$703,124$716,257$716,449$1921.9%No
2022$716,257$730,118$732,016$1,8981.9%No
2023$730,118$757,147$749,150$-7,9973.7%Yes
2024$757,147$791,378$777,488$-13,8904.5%Yes
2025$791,378$807,206$807,206$02%No
2026$807,206$819,332$828,702$9,3701.5%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 Designation31.7Susceptible Environmental Stress30fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation6.7No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation3.3Susceptible Environmental Stress36.7fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation0Moderate Environmental Stress43.3fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation0No Designation26.7fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation0No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation0No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 35.8% ($396,324 of $1,107,219) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 46.1% ($400,924 of $868,915) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 50.5% ($535,940 of $1,061,752) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/washington-county/jackson.json