2026 · Sources and uses

The budget, past the headline

The $100 receipt on the dashboard shows where Aurora’s 2026 money goes. This page is what sits behind it: the same five fund types in dollars, three citywide totals per resident, and what a household pays at the register. Where the money comes from, and the largest single line, are marked as not read yet.

FACT Source: 2026 Adopted budget book · City of Aurora · every figure here comes from it unless its own line names another publisher

Where the money goes, by fund type CALC

The book’s department-by-fund-type matrix for 2026, in dollars and per $100. The five fund types sum to the all-funds total exactly.

Fund type	2026 Adopted	Per $100
Enterprise Funds	$556,319,253	$41.41
General Fund	$550,497,207	$40.98
Special Revenue Funds	$126,869,426	$9.44
Capital Projects Funds	$73,782,074	$5.49
Internal Service Funds	$35,942,337	$2.68
Total	$1,343,410,297	$100.00

The total counts a transferred dollar in both funds, because it sums each fund’s appropriations. Debt Service Funds have no row: the column is empty in 2026.

Per Aurora resident

Three of the city’s 2026 Adopted figures, each divided by the same count of 403,130 residents (Census, 2024). A per-resident figure is a scale, not a bill. Businesses and visitors pay too.

All-funds appropriations, per resident CALC

≈ $3,332

$1,343,410,297 ÷ 403,130 residents. The dashboard’s headline total, which counts a transferred dollar in both funds.

General Fund, per resident CALC

≈ $1,366

$550,497,207 ÷ 403,130 residents. The General Fund is the city’s main operating fund.

Capital program, per resident CALC

≈ $953

$384,354,334 ÷ 403,130 residents. The 2026 adopted year of the Capital Improvement Program.

The largest General Fund line PENDING

The book prints the General Fund by department. Those lines have not been read into this site’s data yet, so no line is ranked here. A rank is only taken over a list that has been read whole and checked against its printed total. Nothing here is estimated.

Where the money comes from

PENDING

Where Aurora’s 2026 money comes from (taxes, charges, fees and grants, by source) is printed in the same 2026 Adopted budget book. It has not been read into this site’s data yet, so this section stays blank on purpose until it is read and checked against the book’s own printed total. Nothing here is estimated. The sales tax a household pays is in the next section.

What a household pays

One city tax reaches an Aurora household directly: the sales tax at the register. The city’s own rate is the same in all three counties, and the total a shopper pays is not, because county and district shares differ. Each line names where it is published. Those other shares are not Aurora’s money, and none is added to a city figure.

FACT City sales and use tax rate: 3.75% of a taxable sale, in all three counties. Aurora is a home-rule city and collects this share itself. Source: City of Aurora, Office of Budget and Financial Planning, 2026 Operating and Capital Improvement Budget (adopted).
FACT Combined rate a shopper pays in the Arapahoe County part: 8.00%. Most of the city’s residents live in this part. Same source as the line above.
FACT Combined rate in the Adams County part: 8.50%. Same source as the line above.
FACT Combined rate in the Douglas County part: 8.75%. There is no single “Aurora sales tax” a shopper pays, so none is printed here. Same source as the line above.
PENDING Aurora’s own property tax levy is not on this page yet. The state’s property tax report prints what is levied county by county, and Aurora’s land lies in three counties, so no county’s row is Aurora’s. The line stays blank rather than borrowed from a county.

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