Table 1.  State and Local Government Finances by Level of Government and by State: 2005-06
(Dollar amounts are in thousands. Coefficients of variation (CV) are expressed as percents. For meaning
of abbreviations and symbols, see note below table.)
Description	United States Total
	State & local	State & local	State	Local	Local
	government	government	government	government	government
	amount1	CV	amount	amount1	CV
	1	2	3	4	5
Revenue1	2,736,541,861	0.05	1,773,207,646	1,406,440,126	0.10
General revenue1	2,186,018,089	0.05	1,385,376,137	1,243,747,863	0.11
Intergovernmental revenue1	452,233,320	0.07	419,143,477	476,195,754	0.13
From Federal Government	452,233,320	0.07	397,597,199	54,636,121	0.55
From State government1	(1)	(X)	-	421,559,633	0.12
From local governments1	(1)	(X)	21,546,278	(1)	(X)
General revenue from own sources	1,733,784,769	0.07	966,232,660	767,552,109	0.15
Taxes	1,195,253,978	0.05	710,864,147	484,389,831	0.13
Property	359,109,100	0.13	11,793,847	347,315,253	0.14
Sales and gross receipts	412,114,239	0.07	332,972,129	79,142,110	0.34
General sales	282,178,731	0.08	226,711,657	55,467,074	0.39
Selective sales	129,935,508	0.14	106,260,472	23,675,036	0.75
Motor fuel	36,971,646	0.08	35,701,788	1,269,858	2.32
Alcoholic beverage	5,368,997	0.10	4,925,287	443,710	1.16
Tobacco products	14,974,713	0.03	14,498,993	475,720	1.09
Public utilities	23,669,004	0.60	11,425,931	12,243,073	1.15
Other selective sales	48,951,148	0.19	39,708,473	9,242,675	1.00
Individual income	268,599,372	0.03	245,882,826	22,716,546	0.36
Corporate income	52,930,783	0.12	47,465,522	5,465,261	1.12
Motor vehicle license	20,519,805	0.08	19,015,122	1,504,683	1.05
Other taxes	81,980,679	0.24	53,734,701	28,245,978	0.70
Charges and miscellaneous general  revenue	538,530,791	0.14	255,368,513	283,162,278	0.27
Current charges	334,840,861	0.14	137,400,590	197,440,271	0.23
Education	96,897,743	0.02	74,306,024	22,591,719	0.09
Institutions  of higher education	82,126,949	0.01	73,194,703	8,932,246	0.13
School lunch sales (gross)	6,745,154	0.11	21,958	6,723,196	0.11
Hospitals	83,657,508	0.25	31,718,052	51,939,456	0.41
Highways	16,301,712	0.14	10,326,124	5,975,588	0.39
Air transportation (airports)	15,471,493	0.85	1,151,668	14,319,825	0.92
Parking facilities	1,674,559	0.82	18,061	1,656,498	0.83
Sea and inland port facilities	3,698,752	0.83	1,066,102	2,632,650	1.16
Natural resources	3,548,115	2.96	2,448,784	1,099,331	9.57
Parks and recreation	8,659,093	1.43	1,462,477	7,196,616	1.72
Housing and community development	5,074,617	1.25	622,413	4,452,204	1.42
Sewerage	33,803,846	0.62	49,356	33,754,490	0.62
Solid waste management	13,632,904	0.58	475,835	13,157,069	0.60
Other charges	52,420,519	0.45	13,755,694	38,664,825	0.61
Miscellaneous general revenue	203,689,930	0.28	117,967,923	85,722,007	0.67
Interest earnings	71,495,067	0.29	38,207,404	33,287,663	0.62
Special assessments	7,094,367	2.63	778,704	6,315,663	2.96
Sale of property	3,941,465	3.13	1,115,437	2,826,028	4.37
Other general revenue	121,159,031	0.37	77,866,378	43,292,653	1.05
Utility revenue	125,265,252	0.27	15,816,052	109,449,200	0.31
Water supply	40,273,939	0.63	223,451	40,050,488	0.63
Electric power	65,386,666	0.31	13,230,927	52,155,739	0.39
Gas supply	8,723,804	2.61	16,374	8,707,430	2.62
Transit	10,880,843	0.27	2,345,300	8,535,543	0.35
Liquor store revenue	6,377,146	0.25	5,429,820	947,326	1.66
Insurance trust revenue	418,881,374	0.02	366,585,637	52,295,737	0.17
Unemployment compensation	36,988,942	0.00	36,863,504	125,438	0.00
Employee retirement	352,520,628	0.03	300,350,329	52,170,299	0.17
Workers' compensation	21,514,198	0.00	21,514,198	-	0.00
Other insurance trust revenue	7,857,606	0.00	7,857,606	-	0.00
Expenditure1	2,507,086,471	0.10	1,551,555,283	1,390,866,901	0.18
By character and object:
Intergovernmental expenditure1	6,503,840	0.00	428,924,716	12,914,837	1.73
Direct expenditure	2,500,582,631	0.10	1,122,630,567	1,377,952,064	0.19
Current operations	1,863,023,469	0.09	774,651,394	1,088,372,075	0.16
Capital outlay	295,368,116	0.44	101,432,237	193,935,879	0.66
Construction	229,529,253	0.48	83,857,561	145,671,692	0.75
Other capital outlay	65,838,863	0.64	17,574,676	48,264,187	0.88
Assistance and subsidies	41,034,775	0.25	31,644,069	9,390,706	1.10
Interest on debt	97,198,004	0.28	39,719,885	57,478,119	0.48
Insurance benefits and repayments	203,958,267	0.03	175,182,982	28,775,285	0.20
Exhibit: Salaries and wages	721,254,820	0.07	203,163,702	518,091,118	0.10
Direct expenditure by function	2,500,582,631	0.10	1,122,630,567	1,377,952,064	0.19
Direct general expenditure	2,121,945,568	0.09	918,205,208	1,203,740,360	0.17
Capital outlay	258,539,787	0.47	95,510,884	163,028,903	0.74
Other direct general expenditure	1,863,405,781	0.07	822,694,324	1,040,711,457	0.12
Education services:
Education	727,967,187	0.03	202,474,443	525,492,744	0.04
Capital outlay	82,504,568	0.20	20,622,675	61,881,893	0.27
Higher education	191,758,432	0.01	160,768,686	30,989,746	0.05
Capital outlay	22,797,766	0.05	19,592,600	3,205,166	0.37
Elementary & secondary	500,527,662	0.04	6,024,664	494,502,998	0.04
Capital outlay	59,256,455	0.28	579,728	58,676,727	0.29
Other education	35,681,093	0.00	35,681,093	-	0.00
Libraries	10,496,940	3.33	422,995	10,073,945	3.47
Social services and income maintenance:
Public welfare	370,325,303	0.05	324,713,963	45,611,340	0.44
Cash assistance payments	21,884,079	0.47	12,493,373	9,390,706	1.10
Vendor payments	274,838,219	0.00	270,532,772	4,305,447	0.31
Other public welfare	73,603,005	0.22	41,687,818	31,915,187	0.50
Hospitals	110,455,082	0.23	44,320,081	66,135,001	0.38
Capital outlay	6,672,284	1.88	2,517,783	4,154,501	3.02
Health	71,109,591	0.47	32,994,197	38,115,394	0.88
Employment security administration	4,613,765	0.00	4,608,709	5,056	0.00
Veterans' services	992,062	0.00	992,062	-	0.00
Transportation:
Highways	135,411,725	0.28	84,288,845	51,122,880	0.73
Capital outlay	76,370,661	0.38	57,024,684	19,345,977	1.52
Air transportation (airports)	18,392,912	1.03	1,431,946	16,960,966	1.12
Parking facilities	1,371,537	3.68	8,593	1,362,944	3.70
Sea and inland port facilities	4,285,595	1.19	1,327,328	2,958,267	1.72
Public safety:
Police protection	79,066,094	0.39	10,837,654	68,228,440	0.45
Fire protection	34,166,638	0.90	-	34,166,638	0.90
Correction	62,667,203	0.12	40,413,017	22,254,186	0.33
Capital outlay	2,468,939	1.75	1,441,901	1,027,038	4.20
Protective inspection and regulation	13,654,766	0.69	8,622,294	5,032,472	1.89
Environment and housing:
Natural resources	25,481,896	0.77	18,145,811	7,336,085	2.68
Capital outlay	4,473,133	3.76	2,587,722	1,885,411	8.93
Parks and recreation	34,768,696	1.28	4,875,519	29,893,177	1.49
Capital outlay	9,267,343	1.82	1,145,789	8,121,554	2.07
Housing and community development	41,979,853	2.04	5,153,071	36,826,782	2.33
Sewerage	39,220,435	0.77	1,265,871	37,954,564	0.79
Capital outlay	15,336,465	1.40	649,874	14,686,591	1.46
Solid waste management	22,679,100	0.43	3,253,752	19,425,348	0.50
Capital outlay	2,101,238	2.39	341,251	1,759,987	2.85
Governmental administration:
Financial administration	37,440,781	0.50	21,373,524	16,067,257	1.16
Judicial and legal	36,823,026	0.15	17,790,081	19,032,945	0.30
General public buildings	12,103,348	0.97	2,909,273	9,194,075	1.28
Other governmental administration	24,967,508	0.80	4,741,060	20,226,448	0.98
Interest on general debt	85,660,280	0.32	37,808,472	47,851,808	0.57
General expenditure, n.e.c.:
Miscellaneous commercial activities	8,065,513	2.23	5,101,682	2,963,831	6.06
Other and unallocable	107,778,732	0.61	38,330,965	69,447,767	0.95
Utility expenditure	169,450,634	0.81	24,904,119	144,546,515	0.95
Capital outlay	36,795,128	1.08	5,906,917	30,888,211	1.29
Water supply	47,751,544	1.40	336,672	47,414,872	1.41
Electric power	66,307,923	1.41	14,621,161	51,686,762	1.81
Gas supply	9,063,970	3.08	12,110	9,051,860	3.09
Transit	46,327,197	0.46	9,934,176	36,393,021	0.59
Liquor store expenditure	5,228,162	1.22	4,338,258	889,904	7.17
Insurance trust expenditure	203,958,267	0.03	175,182,982	28,775,285	0.20
Unemployment compensation	28,097,329	0.00	28,008,860	88,469	0.00
Employee retirement	156,179,502	0.04	127,492,686	28,686,816	0.20
Workers' compensation	12,129,640	0.00	12,129,640	-	0.00
Other insurance trust	7,551,796	0.00	7,551,796	-	0.00
Debt outstanding	2,200,892,115	0.34	870,939,056	1,329,953,059	0.56
Short-term	33,207,959	1.12	10,629,050	22,578,909	1.65
Long-term	2,167,684,156	0.34	860,310,006	1,307,374,150	0.56
Public debt for private purposes	505,053,539	0.73	315,911,618	189,141,921	1.94
Long-term debt issued	339,333,248	0.93	146,982,251	192,350,997	1.65
Long-term debt retired	227,681,708	0.38	95,008,240	132,673,468	0.65
Cash and security holdings	4,807,120,587	0.09	3,436,442,021	1,370,678,566	0.30
Insurance trust funds	2,968,839,437	0.03	2,491,498,005	477,341,432	0.21
Unemployment compensation	35,444,100	0.00	35,053,864	390,236	0.00
Employee retirement	2,845,710,487	0.03	2,368,759,291	476,951,196	0.21
Workers' compensation	78,915,061	0.00	78,915,061	-	0.00
Miscellaneous	8,769,789	0.00	8,769,789	-	0.00
Other than insurance trust funds	1,838,281,150	0.22	944,944,016	893,337,134	0.45
By purpose:
Offsets to debt	648,220,171	0.58	386,862,630	261,357,541	1.44
Bond funds	186,927,059	0.97	39,781,682	147,145,377	1.24
Other	1,003,133,920	0.24	518,299,704	484,834,216	0.50
1 Duplicative intergovernmental transactions are excluded.
Abbreviations and symbols:  -  zero or rounds to zero;  (X)   not applicable
n.e.c. = "not elsewhere classified"

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Governments Division Created: July 01 2008 Last Revised: July 01 2008 Skip footer section Privacy Policy 2010 Census Data Tools Information Quality Product Catalog Contact Us Home