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 Walworth

Town · Wayne County · Rochester · OSC municipal code 540386700000

Population 9,443 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 9,250) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 61.1% 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 2025 (by $245,045, override planned), 2026 (by $282,917, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Rochester towns

IndicatorTown of WalworthPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$775$84145th100AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$424$40256th100AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$5$5053rd87AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending0.4%5.1%16th100AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue7.8%11.5%23rd100AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue14.4%13.4%54th100AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)61.1%52.1%57th98OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years22.5%29.3%32nd99AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth33.2%16.8%75th992021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)03.316th97OSC 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$2.2M$4.3M$6.5M$8.6M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $6.1MRevenue 2020: $5.9MRevenue 2021: $6.8MRevenue 2022: $6.4MRevenue 2023: $7.3MRevenue 2024: $7.6MRevenue 2025: $8.6MSpending 2019: $6.0MSpending 2020: $5.1MSpending 2021: $6.0MSpending 2022: $6.4MSpending 2023: $6.1MSpending 2024: $6.9MSpending 2025: $7.3M

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)
$-68k$93k$254k$414k$575k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-17kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $200kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $575kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-68kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $288kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $76kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $545k

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$165k$331k$496k$662k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $662kDebt outstanding 2020: $281kDebt outstanding 2021: $263kDebt outstanding 2022: $182kDebt outstanding 2023: $100kDebt outstanding 2024: $75kDebt outstanding 2025: $50kDebt service 2019: $318kDebt service 2020: $399kDebt service 2021: $142kDebt service 2022: $91kDebt service 2023: $89kDebt service 2024: $30kDebt service 2025: $28k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$1.1M$2.2M$3.3M$4.4M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $3.3MTotal levy 2022: $3.4MTotal levy 2023: $3.4MTotal levy 2024: $3.5MTotal levy 2025: $4.0MTotal levy 2026: $4.4M

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202358.5%FY202454.9%FY202561.1%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20190 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)$6,141,820$5,977,332$2,309,850$2,326,509$2,888,299$797,362$348,156$318,293$661,925afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$5,884,914$5,107,048$2,185,957$1,985,726$2,729,467$804,445$323,373$399,337$281,457afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$6,776,435$5,971,850$2,675,523$2,100,488$3,062,562$1,204,092$488,893$142,145$262,895afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$6,372,493$6,365,340$2,543,384$2,611,143$3,149,557$758,501$492,237$90,546$181,994afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$7,306,685$6,096,877$2,844,058$2,555,872$3,215,622$1,092,015$420,659$89,228$100,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$7,621,348$6,910,134$3,341,166$3,264,786$3,539,926$1,325,909$456,953$29,725$75,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$8,623,711$7,314,377$3,385,802$2,840,454$4,004,629$1,238,227$670,840$28,375$50,000afr-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$2,723,697$2,858,110$2,813,469$-44,6414.9%Yes
2020$2,858,110$2,975,775$2,921,612$-54,1634.1%Yes
2021$2,975,775$3,290,729$3,036,746$-253,98310.6%Yes
2022$3,290,729$3,378,095$3,394,316$16,2212.7%Yes
2023$3,378,095$3,439,691$3,463,842$24,1511.8%No
2024$3,439,691$3,505,676$3,569,101$63,4251.9%No
2025$3,505,676$3,966,161$3,721,116$-245,04513.1%Yes
2026$3,966,161$4,386,539$4,103,622$-282,91710.6%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 Designation0No Designation3.3fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0No Designation3.3fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation0No Designation3.3fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation3.3No Designation10fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation3.3No Designation0fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation3.3No Designation0fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation0No Designation0fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 58.5% ($2,588,538 of $4,428,431) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 54.9% ($2,686,942 of $4,896,874) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 61.1% ($3,064,134 of $5,016,755) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/wayne-county/walworth.json