2026 · Sources and uses

The budget, past the headline

The $100 receipt on the dashboard shows where Lakewood’s 2026 money goes. This page is what sits behind it: the same eight lines in dollars and per $100, three totals per resident, and the largest department. Where the money comes from, and what a household pays, are marked as not read yet.

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

Where the money goes, by department CALC

The book’s department table for 2026, in dollars and per $100. The seven largest departments are named and the other seven grouped, and the eight lines sum to the all-funds total exactly.

Department	2026 Adopted	Per $100
Public Works	$78,921,797	$25.18
Police	$73,052,892	$23.31
Community Resources	$55,182,666	$17.61
Sustainability and Community Development	$29,885,532	$9.54
Non-Departmental	$23,176,441	$7.40
Information Technology	$12,732,719	$4.06
Facilities & Infrastructure Maintenance	$9,554,569	$3.05
All other departments	$30,875,822	$9.85
Total appropriations	$313,382,438	$100.00

An appropriation is money authorized, not money spent. Non-Departmental is cost the book assigns to no department.

Per Lakewood resident

Three of the city’s 2026 adopted figures, each divided by the same count of 156,927 residents (Census, 2025). A per-resident figure is a scale, not a bill. Businesses and visitors pay too.

All-funds appropriations, per resident CALC

≈ $1,997

$313,382,438 ÷ 156,927 residents. The dashboard’s headline total.

Capital program, per resident CALC

≈ $485

$76,102,156 ÷ 156,927 residents. The 2026 appropriation of the five-year capital plan; the forecast years are not in it.

Police, per resident CALC

≈ $466

$73,052,892 ÷ 156,927 residents. The Police Department’s 2026 adopted appropriation, all funds.

The largest department

One of the eight lines above is the largest. The rank is taken over the book’s department table, by each department’s printed 2026 appropriation, all funds.

Largest department FACT

$78,921,797

Public Works, $25.18 of every $100.

Seven departments are grouped on this site, and the largest line inside the group, Finance at $8,590,311, is smaller than every department named, so no grouped department could rank above Public Works.

Where the money comes from

PENDING

Where Lakewood’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.

What a household pays

Two city taxes reach a Lakewood household directly: the sales tax at the register and the property tax bill. Neither has been read into this site’s data yet, so each line below is named as not read yet, and nothing is borrowed from a county or from another city. A county’s or a school district’s share of a bill is another government’s money and is never added to the city’s.

PENDING Lakewood’s city sales and use tax rate, and the combined rate a shopper pays in the city, are not on this page yet. The line stays blank rather than borrowed from a county or another city.
PENDING Lakewood’s own property tax levy is not on this page yet. No levy row for Lakewood alone has been read into this site’s data, and a county’s figure is never shown as the city’s. The line stays blank.

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