City spending dashboard

Published Census recordsPetersburg City · VA

Petersburg City, VA: government spending

Municipal government · survey 2024 · published finance observations

Published spending subtotal$92,195,000
Source coverage22 entries12 spending categories · individual-government records
DATAU.S. Census Bureau · survey 2024

Published revenue subtotal

$80,546,000

Money received · excludes borrowing

Entries needing verification

0

0 estimates · source checks, not fraud findings

Reported entries

22

Source flag R · other entries retain their original flags

Read this as a published-record subtotal. Subtotals combine only applicable entries published for this government and survey. Estimates and unknown classifications remain included and labeled. Missing entries are unknown, not zero; these records do not establish a complete city total, adopted budget or payment ledger.

Spending by public service

Survey 2024 · includes estimates where flagged

Stable = reported source entries. Warning = estimates, corrections, unknown classifications or alternative sources needing verification. Not applicable entries are excluded. These are source checks, not findings of fraud or service quality.

Education

#1 Spend
2 source items · survey 2024
Published subtotal
$80,873,000

Funds schools, higher education and related educational services, including support transferred to other governments.

Stable

Solid waste

1 source item · survey 2024
Published subtotal
$2,294,000

Funds waste collection, disposal and related facilities or services.

Stable

Courts & legal services

1 source item · survey 2024
Published subtotal
$2,250,000

Funds courts, prosecution, legal services and the administration of justice.

Stable

Sewerage & wastewater

1 source item · survey 2024
Published subtotal
$2,151,000

Funds sewer collection, treatment facilities and related infrastructure or operations.

Stable

Government administration

1 source item · survey 2024
Published subtotal
$1,343,000

Funds general government administration, public buildings and related support functions.

Stable

Parks & recreation

1 source item · survey 2024
Published subtotal
$853,000

Funds parks, recreation facilities, maintenance and public recreation services.

Stable

Other general spending

1 source item · survey 2024
Published subtotal
$811,000

Groups general spending that the source does not allocate to a more specific service. Underlying accounts are needed to identify each program.

Stable

Water utility

1 source item · survey 2024
Published subtotal
$566,000

Funds public water supply, treatment, distribution and utility infrastructure.

Stable

Commercial activities

1 source item · survey 2024
Published subtotal
$500,000

Funds commercial activities classified by the source; the enterprise accounts identify the goods or services involved.

Stable

Public transit

1 source item · survey 2024
Published subtotal
$453,000

Funds public transit operations, infrastructure and debt interest when published.

Stable

Parking

1 source item · survey 2024
Published subtotal
$89,000

Funds public parking facilities and related administration or operations.

Stable

Roads & bridges

1 source item · survey 2024
Published subtotal
$12,000

Funds roads, bridges and associated construction, maintenance and administration.

Stable
Government identity & reporting limits

Which government is in this record?

Census source name
PETERSBURG CITY
Government type
Municipal government (city, town, village or borough)
County label in source
Petersburg City
Fiscal year-end month and day
June 30 — the identity file does not supply an ending calendar year.

Read the reporting limits first

Census edits these records to produce aggregate statistics. It warns that individual-government observations are not checked for accurate city time series and can contain reporting, coverage and processing errors. The 2022 census is broad; the 2024 annual survey is a sample. This page uses the latest available observation for this government, not a claim of current-year completeness.

Latest source flags: 22 reported (R). These flags do not establish fraud or audit assurance.

Original files and reproducible records

Survey years are retained as published. Amounts use source item codes and explicit flags; no missing value is replaced with zero. No cross-year growth or city rankings are inferred.

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