The budget
What the city was allowed to spend in 2026, and out of which funds.
Citywide totals
What this counts All-funds appropriations in the 2026 Adopted Budget: the sum of fund-level appropriations across the General Fund and 19 other funds.
Sums fund appropriations, so it INCLUDES interfund transfers — a dollar the General Fund transfers to the Capital Projects Fund is appropriated in both. Never mixed with the ACFR's government-wide expenses, which eliminate internal activity.
How this figure was reached $1,343,410,297 in all-funds appropriations, 2026 Adopted. Reconciled by TWO independent printed paths: the Attachment 3 fund matrix (19 non-General funds plus the General Fund, operating and capital split per fund) and the G-3 department-by-fund-type matrix (22 departments by 6 fund types) — both sum to this figure exactly. NAME THE QUANTITY: it sums fund appropriations and so INCLUDES interfund transfers. The audited ACFR's government-wide expenses, which eliminate internal activity, are $1,093,962,957 for 2025 — a different basis, never mixed with this one.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached Operating appropriations across all funds, 2026 Adopted, from the Attachment 3 fund matrix. Operating plus capital equals the all-funds total exactly.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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THE COVER NAMES NO STAGE. It reads "2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget"; the stage is asserted from the interior statement "This 2026 Adopted Budget … adopted by City Council in the fall of 2025" and from the page footers, never from the cover or filename — a City Manager's PROPOSED budget is linked from the same page and past proposed budgets sit one folder away. GetFile.ashx download keys are opaque and unstable, so the PDF is resolved from the budget page's own link text on every fresh download. The all-funds total SUMS FUND APPROPRIATIONS AND SO INCLUDES INTERFUND TRANSFERS; the audited ACFR's government-wide expenses eliminate internal activity and are a different basis, never mixed with it.
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached The 2026 adopted year of the Capital Improvement Program, matching both the capital column of the Attachment 3 fund matrix and the capital section's own printed CIP total. Capital appropriations here are multi-year on a budget basis — carryforward from prior years is a separate quantity and is not in this figure.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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THE COVER NAMES NO STAGE. It reads "2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget"; the stage is asserted from the interior statement "This 2026 Adopted Budget … adopted by City Council in the fall of 2025" and from the page footers, never from the cover or filename — a City Manager's PROPOSED budget is linked from the same page and past proposed budgets sit one folder away. GetFile.ashx download keys are opaque and unstable, so the PDF is resolved from the budget page's own link text on every fresh download. The all-funds total SUMS FUND APPROPRIATIONS AND SO INCLUDES INTERFUND TRANSFERS; the audited ACFR's government-wide expenses eliminate internal activity and are a different basis, never mixed with it.
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached General Fund total uses, 2026 Adopted, including $88.4M of transfers out. Sources equal uses: $541,338,681 of revenues plus $9,158,526 drawn from the recession reserve.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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THE COVER NAMES NO STAGE. It reads "2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget"; the stage is asserted from the interior statement "This 2026 Adopted Budget … adopted by City Council in the fall of 2025" and from the page footers, never from the cover or filename — a City Manager's PROPOSED budget is linked from the same page and past proposed budgets sit one folder away. GetFile.ashx download keys are opaque and unstable, so the PDF is resolved from the budget page's own link text on every fresh download. The all-funds total SUMS FUND APPROPRIATIONS AND SO INCLUDES INTERFUND TRANSFERS; the audited ACFR's government-wide expenses eliminate internal activity and are a different basis, never mixed with it.
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What this counts Total primary government expenses from the audited ACFR's government-wide Statement of Activities.
ELIMINATES interfund activity, so it is not comparable with the appropriations headline. Published beside it as the basis caveat.
How this figure was reached Total primary government expenses from the audited government-wide Statement of Activities, year ended December 31, 2025: governmental activities $799,724,858 plus business-type activities $294,238,099. ELIMINATES interfund activity — a different basis from the budget book's sum of fund appropriations, published beside it as the caveat, never summed with it.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “government wide expenses”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Finance Department 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (year ended December 31, 2025)
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The audited statements. Government-wide total primary government expenses ELIMINATE interfund activity, so the figure is smaller than the budget book's sum of fund appropriations for a comparable year — a different quantity, published here only as the basis caveat beside the appropriations headline. Same unstable GetFile keys as the budget book; resolved from the ACFR page's own link title each fresh download.
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Public safety
What this counts The Detention Division program inside the Court Administration department: a municipal short-hold facility that transports people to county jails.
NOT A CORRECTIONS BUDGET. Aurora runs no jail system; people arrested in Aurora are held by county sheriffs. Presenting this line as a corrections budget would be the substitute-agency trap.
How this figure was reached The Detention Division program (54 FTE) inside the Court Administration department, 2026 Adopted, read from the department's program summary by column position and reconciled: the five program budgets sum to the department's printed $15,426,489 exactly. NOT A CORRECTIONS BUDGET — the division provides custodial care in a municipal short-hold facility and transports people to county jails. Aurora's jail population is held by county sheriffs, whose budgets are county money.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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THE COVER NAMES NO STAGE. It reads "2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget"; the stage is asserted from the interior statement "This 2026 Adopted Budget … adopted by City Council in the fall of 2025" and from the page footers, never from the cover or filename — a City Manager's PROPOSED budget is linked from the same page and past proposed budgets sit one folder away. GetFile.ashx download keys are opaque and unstable, so the PDF is resolved from the budget page's own link text on every fresh download. The all-funds total SUMS FUND APPROPRIATIONS AND SO INCLUDES INTERFUND TRANSFERS; the audited ACFR's government-wide expenses eliminate internal activity and are a different basis, never mixed with it.
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Sales tax
What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached The city's own general sales and use tax rate, 3.75%, uniform across all three counties — asserted per row of the budget book's "2025 Sales and Use Tax Rates (by County)" table (p. D-2). Aurora is home-rule and self-collects this portion.
Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached The combined sales and use tax rate an Aurora buyer pays in the Adams County part of the city: 8.50% = city 3.75% + state 2.90% + other 1.85%, as the budget book's own by-county table prints it (2025 rates). The city portion is uniform; the TOTAL differs by county, which is why a single "Aurora sales tax" figure is never published here.
Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached The combined sales and use tax rate an Aurora buyer pays in the Arapahoe County part of the city: 8.00% = city 3.75% + state 2.90% + other 1.35%, as the budget book's own by-county table prints it (2025 rates). The city portion is uniform; the TOTAL differs by county, which is why a single "Aurora sales tax" figure is never published here.
Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached The combined sales and use tax rate an Aurora buyer pays in the Douglas County part of the city: 8.75% = city 3.75% + state 2.90% + other 2.10%, as the budget book's own by-county table prints it (2025 rates). The city portion is uniform; the TOTAL differs by county, which is why a single "Aurora sales tax" figure is never published here.
Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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Where $100 goes, by fund type
What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached General Fund: $550,497,207 of 2026 Adopted appropriations, the Grand Total row of the G-3 department-by-fund-type matrix. The six fund-type columns sum to the all-funds total exactly (Debt Service is empty in 2026).
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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THE COVER NAMES NO STAGE. It reads "2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget"; the stage is asserted from the interior statement "This 2026 Adopted Budget … adopted by City Council in the fall of 2025" and from the page footers, never from the cover or filename — a City Manager's PROPOSED budget is linked from the same page and past proposed budgets sit one folder away. GetFile.ashx download keys are opaque and unstable, so the PDF is resolved from the budget page's own link text on every fresh download. The all-funds total SUMS FUND APPROPRIATIONS AND SO INCLUDES INTERFUND TRANSFERS; the audited ACFR's government-wide expenses eliminate internal activity and are a different basis, never mixed with it.
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached General Fund: $40.98 of every $100 of 2026 Adopted appropriations — $550,497,207 / $1,343,410,297 x 100, rounded to cents. The five rounded shares sum to exactly $100.00, asserted at ingest.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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THE COVER NAMES NO STAGE. It reads "2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget"; the stage is asserted from the interior statement "This 2026 Adopted Budget … adopted by City Council in the fall of 2025" and from the page footers, never from the cover or filename — a City Manager's PROPOSED budget is linked from the same page and past proposed budgets sit one folder away. GetFile.ashx download keys are opaque and unstable, so the PDF is resolved from the budget page's own link text on every fresh download. The all-funds total SUMS FUND APPROPRIATIONS AND SO INCLUDES INTERFUND TRANSFERS; the audited ACFR's government-wide expenses eliminate internal activity and are a different basis, never mixed with it.
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached Enterprise Funds: $556,319,253 of 2026 Adopted appropriations, the Grand Total row of the G-3 department-by-fund-type matrix. The six fund-type columns sum to the all-funds total exactly (Debt Service is empty in 2026).
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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THE COVER NAMES NO STAGE. It reads "2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget"; the stage is asserted from the interior statement "This 2026 Adopted Budget … adopted by City Council in the fall of 2025" and from the page footers, never from the cover or filename — a City Manager's PROPOSED budget is linked from the same page and past proposed budgets sit one folder away. GetFile.ashx download keys are opaque and unstable, so the PDF is resolved from the budget page's own link text on every fresh download. The all-funds total SUMS FUND APPROPRIATIONS AND SO INCLUDES INTERFUND TRANSFERS; the audited ACFR's government-wide expenses eliminate internal activity and are a different basis, never mixed with it.
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached Enterprise Funds: $41.41 of every $100 of 2026 Adopted appropriations — $556,319,253 / $1,343,410,297 x 100, rounded to cents. The five rounded shares sum to exactly $100.00, asserted at ingest.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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THE COVER NAMES NO STAGE. It reads "2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget"; the stage is asserted from the interior statement "This 2026 Adopted Budget … adopted by City Council in the fall of 2025" and from the page footers, never from the cover or filename — a City Manager's PROPOSED budget is linked from the same page and past proposed budgets sit one folder away. GetFile.ashx download keys are opaque and unstable, so the PDF is resolved from the budget page's own link text on every fresh download. The all-funds total SUMS FUND APPROPRIATIONS AND SO INCLUDES INTERFUND TRANSFERS; the audited ACFR's government-wide expenses eliminate internal activity and are a different basis, never mixed with it.
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached Special Revenue Funds: $126,869,426 of 2026 Adopted appropriations, the Grand Total row of the G-3 department-by-fund-type matrix. The six fund-type columns sum to the all-funds total exactly (Debt Service is empty in 2026).
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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THE COVER NAMES NO STAGE. It reads "2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget"; the stage is asserted from the interior statement "This 2026 Adopted Budget … adopted by City Council in the fall of 2025" and from the page footers, never from the cover or filename — a City Manager's PROPOSED budget is linked from the same page and past proposed budgets sit one folder away. GetFile.ashx download keys are opaque and unstable, so the PDF is resolved from the budget page's own link text on every fresh download. The all-funds total SUMS FUND APPROPRIATIONS AND SO INCLUDES INTERFUND TRANSFERS; the audited ACFR's government-wide expenses eliminate internal activity and are a different basis, never mixed with it.
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached Special Revenue Funds: $9.44 of every $100 of 2026 Adopted appropriations — $126,869,426 / $1,343,410,297 x 100, rounded to cents. The five rounded shares sum to exactly $100.00, asserted at ingest.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached Capital Projects Funds: $73,782,074 of 2026 Adopted appropriations, the Grand Total row of the G-3 department-by-fund-type matrix. The six fund-type columns sum to the all-funds total exactly (Debt Service is empty in 2026).
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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THE COVER NAMES NO STAGE. It reads "2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget"; the stage is asserted from the interior statement "This 2026 Adopted Budget … adopted by City Council in the fall of 2025" and from the page footers, never from the cover or filename — a City Manager's PROPOSED budget is linked from the same page and past proposed budgets sit one folder away. GetFile.ashx download keys are opaque and unstable, so the PDF is resolved from the budget page's own link text on every fresh download. The all-funds total SUMS FUND APPROPRIATIONS AND SO INCLUDES INTERFUND TRANSFERS; the audited ACFR's government-wide expenses eliminate internal activity and are a different basis, never mixed with it.
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached Capital Projects Funds: $5.49 of every $100 of 2026 Adopted appropriations — $73,782,074 / $1,343,410,297 x 100, rounded to cents. The five rounded shares sum to exactly $100.00, asserted at ingest.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached Internal Service Funds: $35,942,337 of 2026 Adopted appropriations, the Grand Total row of the G-3 department-by-fund-type matrix. The six fund-type columns sum to the all-funds total exactly (Debt Service is empty in 2026).
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached Internal Service Funds: $2.68 of every $100 of 2026 Adopted appropriations — $35,942,337 / $1,343,410,297 x 100, rounded to cents. The five rounded shares sum to exactly $100.00, asserted at ingest.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached The Grand Total row of the G-3 department-by-fund-type matrix — the same figure as the all-funds headline, emitted under its own slug so the fund-type receipt table's Total row is machine-checkable in both of its columns.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriations”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached The five fund-type shares, each rounded to cents, sum to exactly $100.00 with no forced rounding — asserted at ingest, and the run stops if a re-derivation ever changes that.
Where it came from City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted)
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The three counties’ own money
What this counts Arapahoe County's own adopted budget for 2026 — total expenditures, all funds.
The county's own budget document, read at the county's own printed total. This is Arapahoe County's money and NOT the city's. Two separate governments; the same dollar never appears at both levels, and no figure here is ever added to a city figure or to another county's.
How this figure was reached $667,459,465 — 2026 Adopted, Total All Funds expenditures. NAME THE QUANTITY: the book's narrative separately says the year's "total appropriation is $672.2 million", which is a different quantity from this expenditure row, and the two are never mixed. This is Arapahoe County's money and NOT the city's. Two separate governments; the same dollar never appears at both levels, and no figure here is ever added to a city figure or to another county's.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriation”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from Arapahoe County, Colorado 2026 Arapahoe County Adopted Budget
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A 32 MB PDF, 422 pages. RESOLVED, NOT CONSTRUCTED: the Finance page's link text is "2026 Adopted Budget" over a RELATIVE href, and the page carries <base href="https://www.arapahoeco.gov/">, which is what makes the absolute form; the request then redirects to files.arapahoeco.gov, and that redirected host is the URL recorded here because it is the one that served the bytes. It is slow — the first byte took over 20 seconds, which reads as a dead host to any 20-second probe. NAME THE QUANTITY: the book's narrative says the "total appropriation is $672.2 million" while its Total All Funds expenditure row prints $667,459,465 for the same year. Two quantities, and only the second is read here. The Sheriff's Detention Services Bureau also runs COURT SECURITY and inmate transport by the book's own division description, so the figure is published under the county's own name for it and never as "the jail".
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What this counts The whole Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office for 2026 — every division, all funds.
Published beside the jail line precisely so the two cannot be confused: a department is not its jail, and the readier wrong answer is always adjacent and always larger. This is Arapahoe County's money and NOT the city's. Two separate governments; the same dollar never appears at both levels, and no figure here is ever added to a city figure or to another county's.
How this figure was reached $161,587,229 — the elected Sheriff's whole department for 2026, all funds, as the county printed it. It is NOT a corrections figure: it also covers patrol, investigations and the office's other divisions. Published here only so the jail line beside it can be read as the part of this whole that it is. This is Arapahoe County's money and NOT the city's. Two separate governments; the same dollar never appears at both levels, and no figure here is ever added to a city figure or to another county's.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriation”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from Arapahoe County, Colorado 2026 Arapahoe County Adopted Budget
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A 32 MB PDF, 422 pages. RESOLVED, NOT CONSTRUCTED: the Finance page's link text is "2026 Adopted Budget" over a RELATIVE href, and the page carries <base href="https://www.arapahoeco.gov/">, which is what makes the absolute form; the request then redirects to files.arapahoeco.gov, and that redirected host is the URL recorded here because it is the one that served the bytes. It is slow — the first byte took over 20 seconds, which reads as a dead host to any 20-second probe. NAME THE QUANTITY: the book's narrative says the "total appropriation is $672.2 million" while its Total All Funds expenditure row prints $667,459,465 for the same year. Two quantities, and only the second is read here. The Sheriff's Detention Services Bureau also runs COURT SECURITY and inmate transport by the book's own division description, so the figure is published under the county's own name for it and never as "the jail".
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What this counts The Detention Services Bureau division of the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office, 2026 adopted, under the county's own name for it.
Matched as a DIVISION ROW inside the Sheriff's own department table, never on the word "Correction" — that match picks up oversight boards and commissions. This is Arapahoe County's money and NOT the city's. Two separate governments; the same dollar never appears at both levels, and no figure here is ever added to a city figure or to another county's.
How this figure was reached $75,389,992 — The Detention Services Bureau of the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office. Reconciled twice inside the county's own book: five divisions sum to the Sheriff's printed department total, and eight funds sum to the same total from an independent table. IT IS NOT ONLY THE JAIL — by the book's own division description the bureau also secures the courthouses, moves people to and from court, and transports them to and from other jails and prisons, so it is published under the county's own name for it and never as "the jail budget". This is Arapahoe County's money and NOT the city's. Two separate governments; the same dollar never appears at both levels, and no figure here is ever added to a city figure or to another county's.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriation”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from Arapahoe County, Colorado 2026 Arapahoe County Adopted Budget
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A 32 MB PDF, 422 pages. RESOLVED, NOT CONSTRUCTED: the Finance page's link text is "2026 Adopted Budget" over a RELATIVE href, and the page carries <base href="https://www.arapahoeco.gov/">, which is what makes the absolute form; the request then redirects to files.arapahoeco.gov, and that redirected host is the URL recorded here because it is the one that served the bytes. It is slow — the first byte took over 20 seconds, which reads as a dead host to any 20-second probe. NAME THE QUANTITY: the book's narrative says the "total appropriation is $672.2 million" while its Total All Funds expenditure row prints $667,459,465 for the same year. Two quantities, and only the second is read here. The Sheriff's Detention Services Bureau also runs COURT SECURITY and inmate transport by the book's own division description, so the figure is published under the county's own name for it and never as "the jail".
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What this counts Adams County's own adopted budget for 2026 — total expenditures, all funds.
The county's own budget document, read at the county's own printed total. This is Adams County's money and NOT the city's. Two separate governments; the same dollar never appears at both levels, and no figure here is ever added to a city figure or to another county's.
How this figure was reached $867,186,487 — 2026 adopted, EXPENDITURES total, all 22 funds. NAME THE QUANTITY: the county's own revenue total for the same year is $876,553,642 — the figure most reports of this budget quote — and it exceeds the expenditure budget by the $9,367,155 surplus the county also states. Six expenditure categories sum to this figure exactly. This is Adams County's money and NOT the city's. Two separate governments; the same dollar never appears at both levels, and no figure here is ever added to a city figure or to another county's.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriation”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from Adams County, Colorado 2026 Budget Book (OpenGov budget story)
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THE COUNTY PUBLISHES NO 2026 PDF AT ALL — every year from 2010 to 2024 is a PDF and 2025 and 2026 are "View Online" only, an OpenGov story whose tables are drawn by an embed SDK, so the served HTML carries the headings and none of the figures. The tables come from a public embed API that 400s an invented id, and that is the route read here. TWO TRAPS. First, the widely reported "$876.5 million Adams County budget" is the county's own REVENUE total; its 2026 adopted EXPENDITURE budget is $867,186,487 and the county's own sentence says so, the two differing by the $9,367,155 surplus it also states. Second, the column a reader sees is titled "ADOPTED 2026" and the measure name inside the payload for that same column is "Amended Budget" — the visible column ruler and the page's own prose are what identify the stage, and both are asserted. The Sheriff's division table names its jail division CORRECTIONS, which is the county's word, not ours.
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What this counts The whole Adams County Sheriff's Office for 2026 — every division, all funds.
Published beside the jail line precisely so the two cannot be confused: a department is not its jail, and the readier wrong answer is always adjacent and always larger. This is Adams County's money and NOT the city's. Two separate governments; the same dollar never appears at both levels, and no figure here is ever added to a city figure or to another county's.
How this figure was reached $135,128,397 — the elected Sheriff's whole department for 2026, all funds, as the county printed it. It is NOT a corrections figure: it also covers patrol, investigations and the office's other divisions. Published here only so the jail line beside it can be read as the part of this whole that it is. This is Adams County's money and NOT the city's. Two separate governments; the same dollar never appears at both levels, and no figure here is ever added to a city figure or to another county's.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriation”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from Adams County, Colorado 2026 Budget Book (OpenGov budget story)
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THE COUNTY PUBLISHES NO 2026 PDF AT ALL — every year from 2010 to 2024 is a PDF and 2025 and 2026 are "View Online" only, an OpenGov story whose tables are drawn by an embed SDK, so the served HTML carries the headings and none of the figures. The tables come from a public embed API that 400s an invented id, and that is the route read here. TWO TRAPS. First, the widely reported "$876.5 million Adams County budget" is the county's own REVENUE total; its 2026 adopted EXPENDITURE budget is $867,186,487 and the county's own sentence says so, the two differing by the $9,367,155 surplus it also states. Second, the column a reader sees is titled "ADOPTED 2026" and the measure name inside the payload for that same column is "Amended Budget" — the visible column ruler and the page's own prose are what identify the stage, and both are asserted. The Sheriff's division table names its jail division CORRECTIONS, which is the county's word, not ours.
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What this counts The Corrections division of the Adams County Sheriff's Office, 2026 adopted, under the county's own name for it.
Matched as a DIVISION ROW inside the Sheriff's own department table, never on the word "Correction" — that match picks up oversight boards and commissions. This is Adams County's money and NOT the city's. Two separate governments; the same dollar never appears at both levels, and no figure here is ever added to a city figure or to another county's.
How this figure was reached $66,154,689 — The Corrections division of the Adams County Sheriff's Office — the county jail, under the county's own name for it. One of eight divisions whose 2026 adopted figures sum EXACTLY to the Sheriff's printed department total. That department also carries the county's Emergency Management and public-safety IT, which is the county's own scoping and is why the department total is stated beside the division rather than left implied. This is Adams County's money and NOT the city's. Two separate governments; the same dollar never appears at both levels, and no figure here is ever added to a city figure or to another county's.
What this cannot be compared to This figure is on the basis “adopted appropriation”. A figure of the same name on another basis is a different thing, and the two must not be set against each other. Where it came from Adams County, Colorado 2026 Budget Book (OpenGov budget story)
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THE COUNTY PUBLISHES NO 2026 PDF AT ALL — every year from 2010 to 2024 is a PDF and 2025 and 2026 are "View Online" only, an OpenGov story whose tables are drawn by an embed SDK, so the served HTML carries the headings and none of the figures. The tables come from a public embed API that 400s an invented id, and that is the route read here. TWO TRAPS. First, the widely reported "$876.5 million Adams County budget" is the county's own REVENUE total; its 2026 adopted EXPENDITURE budget is $867,186,487 and the county's own sentence says so, the two differing by the $9,367,155 surplus it also states. Second, the column a reader sees is titled "ADOPTED 2026" and the measure name inside the payload for that same column is "Amended Budget" — the visible column ruler and the page's own prose are what identify the stage, and both are asserted. The Sheriff's division table names its jail division CORRECTIONS, which is the county's word, not ours.
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People
How many people live in the city, and in which county.
The city
What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached Aurora's resident population, Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimate (SUMLEV 162, the place row — no summing needed). The three county parts sum to this exactly.
Where it came from U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program Subcounty population estimates, Colorado file (Vintage 2024, sub-est2024_8.csv)
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THE THREE-COUNTY GEOGRAPHY IS READ FROM THIS FILE, NOT ASSERTED. SUMLEV 162 is the place total and SUMLEV 157 the county parts; the three parts sum to the place total exactly, which is the check. The GNIS point for Aurora sits in Adams County, which leads third-party summaries to call Adams the primary county — Arapahoe holds 84.7% of residents. Open flat file, no API key; api.census.gov answers HTTP 200 with an HTML "Invalid Key" page when a key is missing, which is why the flat file is the path used.
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One city, three counties
What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached Residents of Aurora inside Arapahoe County: 341,313, Census Vintage 2024 county-part estimate (SUMLEV 157). The three parts sum to the city's 403,130 exactly.
Where it came from U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program Subcounty population estimates, Colorado file (Vintage 2024, sub-est2024_8.csv)
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THE THREE-COUNTY GEOGRAPHY IS READ FROM THIS FILE, NOT ASSERTED. SUMLEV 162 is the place total and SUMLEV 157 the county parts; the three parts sum to the place total exactly, which is the check. The GNIS point for Aurora sits in Adams County, which leads third-party summaries to call Adams the primary county — Arapahoe holds 84.7% of residents. Open flat file, no API key; api.census.gov answers HTTP 200 with an HTML "Invalid Key" page when a key is missing, which is why the flat file is the path used.
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached Residents of Aurora inside Adams County: 57,648, Census Vintage 2024 county-part estimate (SUMLEV 157). The three parts sum to the city's 403,130 exactly.
Where it came from U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program Subcounty population estimates, Colorado file (Vintage 2024, sub-est2024_8.csv)
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THE THREE-COUNTY GEOGRAPHY IS READ FROM THIS FILE, NOT ASSERTED. SUMLEV 162 is the place total and SUMLEV 157 the county parts; the three parts sum to the place total exactly, which is the check. The GNIS point for Aurora sits in Adams County, which leads third-party summaries to call Adams the primary county — Arapahoe holds 84.7% of residents. Open flat file, no API key; api.census.gov answers HTTP 200 with an HTML "Invalid Key" page when a key is missing, which is why the flat file is the path used.
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached Residents of Aurora inside Douglas County: 4,169, Census Vintage 2024 county-part estimate (SUMLEV 157). The three parts sum to the city's 403,130 exactly.
Where it came from U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program Subcounty population estimates, Colorado file (Vintage 2024, sub-est2024_8.csv)
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THE THREE-COUNTY GEOGRAPHY IS READ FROM THIS FILE, NOT ASSERTED. SUMLEV 162 is the place total and SUMLEV 157 the county parts; the three parts sum to the place total exactly, which is the check. The GNIS point for Aurora sits in Adams County, which leads third-party summaries to call Adams the primary county — Arapahoe holds 84.7% of residents. Open flat file, no API key; api.census.gov answers HTTP 200 with an HTML "Invalid Key" page when a key is missing, which is why the flat file is the path used.
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached 341,313 residents in the Arapahoe County part / 403,130 citywide x 100 = 84.7%.
Where it came from U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program Subcounty population estimates, Colorado file (Vintage 2024, sub-est2024_8.csv)
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THE THREE-COUNTY GEOGRAPHY IS READ FROM THIS FILE, NOT ASSERTED. SUMLEV 162 is the place total and SUMLEV 157 the county parts; the three parts sum to the place total exactly, which is the check. The GNIS point for Aurora sits in Adams County, which leads third-party summaries to call Adams the primary county — Arapahoe holds 84.7% of residents. Open flat file, no API key; api.census.gov answers HTTP 200 with an HTML "Invalid Key" page when a key is missing, which is why the flat file is the path used.
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached 57,648 residents in the Adams County part / 403,130 citywide x 100 = 14.3%.
Where it came from U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program Subcounty population estimates, Colorado file (Vintage 2024, sub-est2024_8.csv)
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THE THREE-COUNTY GEOGRAPHY IS READ FROM THIS FILE, NOT ASSERTED. SUMLEV 162 is the place total and SUMLEV 157 the county parts; the three parts sum to the place total exactly, which is the check. The GNIS point for Aurora sits in Adams County, which leads third-party summaries to call Adams the primary county — Arapahoe holds 84.7% of residents. Open flat file, no API key; api.census.gov answers HTTP 200 with an HTML "Invalid Key" page when a key is missing, which is why the flat file is the path used.
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What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached 4,169 residents in the Douglas County part / 403,130 citywide x 100 = 1%.
Where it came from U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program Subcounty population estimates, Colorado file (Vintage 2024, sub-est2024_8.csv)
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THE THREE-COUNTY GEOGRAPHY IS READ FROM THIS FILE, NOT ASSERTED. SUMLEV 162 is the place total and SUMLEV 157 the county parts; the three parts sum to the place total exactly, which is the check. The GNIS point for Aurora sits in Adams County, which leads third-party summaries to call Adams the primary county — Arapahoe holds 84.7% of residents. Open flat file, no API key; api.census.gov answers HTTP 200 with an HTML "Invalid Key" page when a key is missing, which is why the flat file is the path used.
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Crime
Reported vehicle theft, on the federal basis.
Vehicle theft
What this counts No definition recorded.
How this figure was reached 3,648 motor vehicle theft offenses reported by the Aurora Police Department in 2024, summed from the FBI CDE's twelve monthly actuals.
What this cannot be compared to The FBI retired summary (SRS) reporting nationally in 2021; NIBRS counts every offense in an incident rather than only the most serious. The Aurora Police Department is an original NIBRS agency — reporting NIBRS since 1985-01-01 per the FBI's own roster — so its OWN counts carry no mechanical rise across this line. What the line still affects is any comparison against agencies that converted in 2021, which is one of the reasons no cross-agency comparison is drawn here. Where it came from FBI Crime Data Explorer CDE summarized offense API, AGENCY endpoint (Aurora Police Department, ORI CO0010100)
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THE AGENCY ENDPOINT, NOT THE STATE ONE. It returns the agency's own population served, which is what makes a city rate possible — and it publishes NO PER-AGENCY COVERAGE SERIES, so the 90% gate the state locales apply cannot be applied here; a non-report floor on the count itself stands in for it (no Aurora year trips it — the smallest is 1,063). The FBI's own roster record for this ORI lists counties "ADAMS, ARAPAHOE, DOUGLAS", an independent confirmation of the three-county footprint, and NIBRS reporting since 1985-01-01 — an original NIBRS agency, so its own counts carry no SRS-to-NIBRS break in 2021.
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What this counts No definition recorded.
The FBI's own per-agency population served, published in the same response as the counts. NOT the Census resident population (403,130 for 2024 against 397,852 here) — the two are close because the department serves the city, and they are different bases.
How this figure was reached The population the Aurora Police Department serves in 2024, as the FBI publishes it in the same response as the counts. NOT the Census resident population — a different basis, close because the department serves the city.
What this cannot be compared to The FBI retired summary (SRS) reporting nationally in 2021; NIBRS counts every offense in an incident rather than only the most serious. The Aurora Police Department is an original NIBRS agency — reporting NIBRS since 1985-01-01 per the FBI's own roster — so its OWN counts carry no mechanical rise across this line. What the line still affects is any comparison against agencies that converted in 2021, which is one of the reasons no cross-agency comparison is drawn here. Where it came from FBI Crime Data Explorer CDE summarized offense API, AGENCY endpoint (Aurora Police Department, ORI CO0010100)
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THE AGENCY ENDPOINT, NOT THE STATE ONE. It returns the agency's own population served, which is what makes a city rate possible — and it publishes NO PER-AGENCY COVERAGE SERIES, so the 90% gate the state locales apply cannot be applied here; a non-report floor on the count itself stands in for it (no Aurora year trips it — the smallest is 1,063). The FBI's own roster record for this ORI lists counties "ADAMS, ARAPAHOE, DOUGLAS", an independent confirmation of the three-county footprint, and NIBRS reporting since 1985-01-01 — an original NIBRS agency, so its own counts carry no SRS-to-NIBRS break in 2021.
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What this counts Motor vehicle theft offenses reported by the Aurora Police Department per 100,000 people it serves.
FBI CDE agency endpoint, with the agency's own population served as the denominator. NOT comparable with a state rate on the FBI matched population, and not ranked — the rank is a state-level measure.
How this figure was reached 3,648 offenses reported by the Aurora Police Department / 397,852 population served x 100,000. The agency's own population, published in the same response — not a Census figure and not the FBI's state matched population.
What this cannot be compared to The FBI retired summary (SRS) reporting nationally in 2021; NIBRS counts every offense in an incident rather than only the most serious. The Aurora Police Department is an original NIBRS agency — reporting NIBRS since 1985-01-01 per the FBI's own roster — so its OWN counts carry no mechanical rise across this line. What the line still affects is any comparison against agencies that converted in 2021, which is one of the reasons no cross-agency comparison is drawn here. Where it came from FBI Crime Data Explorer CDE summarized offense API, AGENCY endpoint (Aurora Police Department, ORI CO0010100)
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THE AGENCY ENDPOINT, NOT THE STATE ONE. It returns the agency's own population served, which is what makes a city rate possible — and it publishes NO PER-AGENCY COVERAGE SERIES, so the 90% gate the state locales apply cannot be applied here; a non-report floor on the count itself stands in for it (no Aurora year trips it — the smallest is 1,063). The FBI's own roster record for this ORI lists counties "ADAMS, ARAPAHOE, DOUGLAS", an independent confirmation of the three-county footprint, and NIBRS reporting since 1985-01-01 — an original NIBRS agency, so its own counts carry no SRS-to-NIBRS break in 2021.
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