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Polk County government

Revenues and expenditures by account code and fund type, every local fiscal year EDR has tabulated from the Annual Financial Reports filed with the Department of Financial Services.

Revenues, FY2025$2,953,126,205
Revenues, change on FY2024+11.5%
Revenues per resident, FY2025$3,487
Expenditures, FY2025$2,761,973,929
Expenditures, change on FY2024+13.7%
Expenditures per resident, FY2025$3,261
Population, 2025846,896
Revenues and expenditures by fiscal yearCounty governmentFY2025: $2,953,126,205 revenues

Totals of every account code, including transfers between funds and the Custodial Fund from FY2021. Real figures are in dollars of the latest fiscal year with a price index; per resident uses EDR's population for each year.

Revenues by categoryCounty governmentFY2025: $2,953,126,205

One line per EDR category heading: General Government Taxes, Permits, Fees, and Special Assessments, Intergovernmental Revenues, Charges for Services, Judgments, Fines, and Forfeits, Miscellaneous Revenues, Other Sources, Taxes, Intergovernmental Revenue, Permits and Franchise Fees, Franchise Fees, Licenses, and Permits, Permits, Fees, and Licenses.

Expenditures by categoryCounty governmentFY2025: $2,761,973,929

One line per EDR category heading: General Government Services (Not Court-Related), Public Safety, Physical Environment, Transportation, Economic Environment, Human Services, Culture / Recreation, Other Uses and Non-Operating, Court-Related Expenditures, Other Uses.

Revenues by account code

Account codes and names as the Department of Financial Services' Uniform Accounting System lists them, grouped under EDR's category headings. FY2025 beside FY2024; other years from the selector. The Custodial Fund column is the part of each line reported in a purely custodial capacity, a column DFS added in FY2021.

CodeAccountFY2025FY2024ChangeOf which Custodial Fund, FY2025
General Government Taxes$657,161,281$604,623,318+8.7%$0
311Ad Valorem Taxes$454,781,115$412,822,620+10.2%$0
312.13Tourist Development Taxes$24,871,836$24,420,386+1.8%$0
312.3County Ninth-Cent Voted Fuel Tax$2,858,846$2,767,748+3.3%$0
312.41First Local Option Fuel Tax (1 to 6 Cents Local Option Fuel Tax)$15,888,495$15,381,576+3.3%$0
312.42Second Local Option Fuel Tax (1 to 5 Cents Local Option Fuel Tax) - County Proceeds$10,214,512$9,847,716+3.7%$0
312.68Voter-Approved Indigent Care Surtax$83,748,176$80,498,721+4.0%$0
314.1Utility Service Tax - Electricity$44,606,744$39,196,560+13.8%$0
314.3Utility Service Tax - Water$7,300,457$6,824,762+7.0%$0
314.4Utility Service Tax - Gas$1,052,775$991,486+6.2%$0
315.1State Communications Services Taxes$10,338,264$9,988,946+3.5%$0
316Local Business Tax (Chapter 205, F.S.)$1,389,150$1,344,824+3.3%$0
319.9Other General Taxes$110,911$537,973-79.4%$0
Permits, Fees, and Special Assessments$131,670,335$130,316,745+1.0%$0
322Building Permits (Buildling Permit Fees)$7,474,597$8,148,487-8.3%$0
322.9Permits - Other$8,993,623$7,978,666+12.7%$0
323.7Franchise Fee - Solid Waste$242,370$244,738-1.0%$0
324.11Impact Fees - Residential - Public Safety$5,109,484$5,776,197-11.5%$0
324.12Impact Fees - Commercial - Public Safety$770,345$631,855+21.9%$0
324.31Impact Fees - Residential - Transportation$17,169,728$25,695,000-33.2%$0
324.32Impact Fees - Commercial - Transportation$9,380,029$3,818,518+145.6%$0
324.61Impact Fees - Residential - Culture / Recreation$1,904,338$2,576,035-26.1%$0
325.1Special Assessments - Capital Improvement$62,179$0
325.2Special Assessments - Charges for Public Services$80,345,460$75,051,209+7.1%$0
329.5Other Fees and Special Assessments$218,182$396,040-44.9%$0
Intergovernmental Revenues$201,828,696$153,225,726+31.7%$0
331.1Federal Grant - General Government$6,596,700$1,070,147+516.4%$0
331.2Federal Grant - Public Safety$12,250,880$959,418+1176.9%$0
331.39Federal Grant - Physical Environment - Other Physical Environment-$2,341,120$146,466-1698.4%$0
331.49Federal Grant - Transportation - Other Transportation$1,545,854$3,691,136-58.1%$0
331.5Federal Grant - Economic Environment$66,876,278$37,854,171+76.7%$0
331.51Federal Grant - American Rescue Plan Act Funds$3,921,548$0
331.61Federal Grant - Human Services - Health or Hospitals$964,522$0
331.65Federal Grant - Human Services - Child Support Reimbursement$308,416$470,723-34.5%$0
331.69Federal Grant - Human Services - Other Human Services$73,754$2,051,299-96.4%$0
331.7Federal Grant - Culture / Recreation-$940,840$192,944-587.6%$0
334.2State Grant - Public Safety$1,247,953$1,513,872-17.6%$0
334.34State Grant - Physical Environment - Garbage / Solid Waste$55,670$61,117-8.9%$0
334.39State Grant - Physical Environment - Other Physical Environment$84,252$484,007-82.6%$0
334.49State Grant - Transportation - Other Transportation$5,937,061$2,995,782+98.2%$0
334.5State Grant - Economic Environment$6,183,691$5,540,769+11.6%$0
334.69State Grant - Human Services - Other Human Services$1,737,059$1,737,8250.0%$0
334.7State Grant - Culture / Recreation$1,184,914$253,672+367.1%$0
334.82State Grant - Court-Related Grants - County Article V Trust Fund$1,238,940$1,700,800-27.2%$0
334.9State Grant - Other$1,022,681$856,159+19.4%$0
335.121State Shared Revenues - General Government - County Revenue Sharing Program$25,875,231$25,053,858+3.3%$0
335.13State Shared Revenues - General Government - Insurance License Tax$180,907$216,078-16.3%$0
335.14State Shared Revenues - General Government - Mobile Home License Tax$192,278$208,347-7.7%$0
335.15State Shared Revenues - General Government - Alcoholic Beverage License Tax$221,218$227,323-2.7%$0
335.16State Shared Revenues - General Government - Distribution of Sales and Use Taxes to Counties$446,500$446,5000.0%$0
335.18State Shared Revenues - General Government - Local Government Half-Cent Sales Tax Program$52,469,918$53,030,614-1.1%$0
335.21State Shared Revenues - Public Safety - Firefighter Supplemental Compensation$87,176$106,376-18.0%$0
335.43State Shared Revenues - Transportation - Constitutional Fuel Tax (2 Cents Fuel Tax)$8,246,590$0
335.44State Shared Revenues - Transportation - County Fuel Tax (1 Cent Fuel Tax)$3,613,607$0
335.48State Shared Revenues - Transportation - Other Transportation$728,979$12,253,321-94.1%$0
338Shared Revenue from Other Local Units$1,739,079$103,002+1588.4%$0
339Payments from Other Local Units in Lieu of Taxes$79,000$0
Charges for Services$505,274,662$420,281,309+20.2%$0
341.1General Government - Recording Fees$4,769,360$5,135,602-7.1%$0
341.15General Government - Public Records Modernization Trust Fund$1,903,230$1,892,821+0.5%$0
341.2General Government - Internal Service Fund Fees and Charges$124,546,844$114,903,873+8.4%$0
341.52General Government - Fees Remitted to County from Sheriff$610,771$568,450+7.4%$0
341.55General Government - Fees Remitted to County from Supervisor of Elections$61,171$32,920+85.8%$0
341.8General Government - County Officer Commission and Fees$2,286,831$2,547,307-10.2%$0
341.9General Government - Other General Government Charges and Fees$2,459,353$2,797,423-12.1%$0
342.1Public Safety - Law Enforcement Services$17,553,194$14,852,003+18.2%$0
342.2Public Safety - Fire Protection$180$0$0
342.3Public Safety - Housing for Prisoners$957,753$918,445+4.3%$0
342.4Public Safety - Emergency Management Service Fees / Charges$3,998,868$3,901,766+2.5%$0
342.5Public Safety - Protective Inspection Fees$4,331,128$4,028,598+7.5%$0
342.6Public Safety - Ambulance Fees$36,380,472$41,793,267-13.0%$0
342.9Public Safety - Other Public Safety Charges and Fees$3,798,808$3,042,813+24.8%$0
343.4Physical Environment - Garbage / Solid Waste$64,898,686$43,756,656+48.3%$0
343.6Physical Environment - Water / Sewer Combination Utility$124,048,539$113,695,944+9.1%$0
343.7Physical Environment - Conservation and Resource Management$352,035$328,319+7.2%$0
344.9Transportation - Other Transportation Charges$868,078$36,375+2286.5%$0
346.2Human Services - Hospital Charges$7,724$1,352,088-99.4%$0
346.4Human Services - Animal Control and Shelter Fees$76,191$96,194-20.8%$0
346.9Human Services - Other Human Services Charges$801,886$1,029,648-22.1%$0
347.2Culture / Recreation - Parks and Recreation$1,247,706$1,362,429-8.4%$0
348.11Court-Related Revenues - County Court Criminal - Filing Fees$28,726$404,458-92.9%$0
348.12Court-Related Revenues - County Court Criminal - Service Charges$589,257$133,981+339.8%$0
348.13Court-Related Revenues - County Court Criminal - Court Costs$1,170,163$844,144+38.6%$0
348.21Court-Related Revenues - Circuit Court Criminal - Filing Fees$720$1,760-59.1%$0
348.22Court-Related Revenues - Circuit Court Criminal - Service Charges$68,754$68,542+0.3%$0
348.23Court-Related Revenues - Circuit Court Criminal - Court Costs$404,510$342,154+18.2%$0
348.31Court-Related Revenues - County Court Civil - Filing Fees$7,033,847$5,336,996+31.8%$0
348.32Court-Related Revenues - County Court Civil - Service Charges$481,573$229,205+110.1%$0
348.41Court-Related Revenues - Circuit Court Civil - Filing Fees$2,039,139$1,994,017+2.3%$0
348.42Court-Related Revenues - Circuit Court Civil - Service Charges$567,802$661,617-14.2%$0
348.48Court-Related Revenues - Circuit Court Civil - Fees and Service Charges$94,372$112,615-16.2%$0
348.52Court-Related Revenues - Traffic Court - Service Charges$1,447,950$1,397,068+3.6%$0
348.53Court-Related Revenues - Traffic Court - Court Costs$2,422,436$2,271,755+6.6%$0
348.61Court-Related Revenues - Juvenile Court - Filing Fees$665$1,755-62.1%$0
348.62Court-Related Revenues - Juvenile Court - Service Charges$7,857$7,575+3.7%$0
348.63Court-Related Revenues - Juvenile Court - Court Costs$23,455$18,525+26.6%$0
348.71Court-Related Revenues - Probate Court - Filing Fees$621,338$625,191-0.6%$0
348.72Court-Related Revenues - Probate Court - Service Charges$81,199$74,757+8.6%$0
348.86Court-Related Revenues - Court Service Reimbursement - Mediation and Arbitration$6,700$7,683-12.8%$0
348.88Court-Related Revenues - Court Service Reimbursement - Probation / Alternatives$1,622,977$1,354,415+19.8%$0
348.921Court-Related Revenues - Restricted Board Revenue - Court Innovations / Local Requirements$192,309$158,081+21.7%$0
348.922Court-Related Revenues - Restricted Board Revenue - Legal Aid$192,309$158,081+21.7%$0
348.923Court-Related Revenues - Restricted Board Revenue - Law Library$192,309$158,081+21.7%$0
348.924Court-Related Revenues - Restricted Board Revenue - Juvenile Alternative Programs$192,309$158,051+21.7%$0
348.93Court-Related Revenues - Restricted Board Revenue - State Court Facility Surcharge ($30)$2,457,660$2,204,662+11.5%$0
348.99Court-Related Revenues - Restricted Board Revenue - Other Collections Transferred to BOCC$405,996$0
349Other Charges for Services (Not Court-Related)$86,969,522$36,491,291+138.3%$0
341.16General Government - County Portion ($2) of $4 Additional Service Charge$0
341.3General Government - Administrative Service Fees$0
341.51General Government - Fees Remitted to County from Tax Collector$0
341.53General Government - Fees Remitted to County from Clerk of Circuit Court$6,980,705
341.54General Government - Fees Remitted to County from Clerk of County Court$0
341.56General Government - Fees Remitted to County from Property Appraiser$0
343.9Physical Environment - Other Physical Environment Charges$11,203
Judgments, Fines, and Forfeits$7,892,107$7,003,279+12.7%$0
351.1Court-Ordered Judgments and Fines - As Decided by County Court Criminal$1,452,951$1,291,188+12.5%$0
351.2Court-Ordered Judgments and Fines - As Decided by Circuit Court Criminal$970,660$751,171+29.2%$0
351.3Court-Ordered Judgments and Fines - As Decided by County Court Civil$17,478$3,290+431.2%$0
351.4Court-Ordered Judgments and Fines - As Decided by Circuit Court Civil$73,800$13,950+429.0%$0
351.5Court-Ordered Judgments and Fines - As Decided by Traffic Court$3,192,649$2,958,764+7.9%$0
351.6Court-Ordered Judgments and Fines - As Decided by Juvenile Court$255,566$242,184+5.5%$0
354Fines - Local Ordinance Violations$102,093$80,582+26.7%$0
358.2Sale of Contraband Property Seized by Law Enforcement$231,578$292,506-20.8%$0
359Other Judgments, Fines, and Forfeits$1,595,332$1,369,644+16.5%$0
Miscellaneous Revenues$1,303,379,839$1,245,626,776+4.6%$1,193,901,490
361.1Interest and Other Earnings - Interest$65,166,756$56,290,591+15.8%$0
361.3Interest and Other Earnings - Net Increase (Decrease) in Fair Value of Investments$13,925,462$55,177,907-74.8%$0
362Rents and Royalties$685,337$731,945-6.4%$0
364Sales - Disposition of Fixed Assets-$1,370,189$908,638-250.8%$0
365Sales - Sale of Surplus Materials and Scrap$8,845$62,988-86.0%$0
366Contributions and Donations from Private Sources$185,591$118,047+57.2%$0
369.9Other Miscellaneous Revenues - Other$1,224,778,037$1,132,336,660+8.2%$1,193,901,490
Other Sources$145,919,285$87,188,398+67.4%$0
381Non-Operating - Inter-Fund Group Transfers In$115,577,711$58,514,542+97.5%$0
383.1Proceeds - Leases - Financial Agreements$789,634$5,225,088-84.9%$0
383.2Proceeds - Installment Purchases and Capital Lease Proceeds$2,375,099$1,044,940+127.3%$0
384Proceeds - Debt Proceeds$1,039,497$0
388.1Proceeds of General Capital Asset Dispositions - Sales$1,456,322$2,168,397-32.8%$0
389.7Proprietary Non-Operating Sources - Capital Contributions from Other Public Source$24,681,022$20,235,431+22.0%$0
Total, all account codes$2,953,126,205$2,648,265,551+11.5%$1,193,901,490

Expenditures by account code

Account codes and names as the Department of Financial Services' Uniform Accounting System lists them, grouped under EDR's category headings. FY2025 beside FY2024; other years from the selector. The Custodial Fund column is the part of each line reported in a purely custodial capacity, a column DFS added in FY2021.

CodeAccountFY2025FY2024ChangeOf which Custodial Fund, FY2025
General Government Services (Not Court-Related)$1,472,705,758$1,360,686,569+8.2%$1,195,592,861
511Legislative$882,913$772,338+14.3%$0
512Executive$5,882,213$5,692,078+3.3%$0
513Financial and Administrative$120,587,699$110,419,986+9.2%$0
514Legal Counsel$1,958,655$1,994,090-1.8%$0
515Comprehensive Planning$6,192,321$5,236,834+18.2%$0
519Other General Government Services$1,337,201,957$1,236,571,243+8.1%$1,195,592,861
Public Safety$494,152,570$459,637,960+7.5%$0
521Law Enforcement$193,390,710$178,824,177+8.1%$0
522Fire Control$84,133,660$72,423,996+16.2%$0
523Detention and/or Correction$94,625,929$99,091,275-4.5%$0
524Protective Inspections$15,246,056$14,606,348+4.4%$0
525Emergency and Disaster Relief Services$27,665,588$18,030,204+53.4%$0
526Ambulance and Rescue Services$62,976,103$64,179,665-1.9%$0
527Medical Examiners$2,502,792$2,503,4190.0%$0
529Other Public Safety$13,611,732$9,978,876+36.4%$0
Physical Environment$259,709,015$167,465,364+55.1%$0
534Garbage / Solid Waste Control Services$66,346,655$50,505,328+31.4%$0
536Water-Sewer Combination Services$126,508,447$101,772,597+24.3%$0
537Conservation and Resource Management$26,511,309$7,317,791+262.3%$0
538Flood Control / Stormwater Management$40,231,919$7,792,422+416.3%$0
539Other Physical Environment$110,685$77,226+43.3%$0
Transportation$137,575,212$137,656,865-0.1%$0
541Road and Street Facilities$129,425,116$130,716,246-1.0%$0
544Mass Transit Systems$4,177,079$3,710,413+12.6%$0
549Other Transportation Systems / Services$3,973,017$3,230,206+23.0%$0
Economic Environment$38,941,049$41,435,360-6.0%$0
552Industry Development$27,027,069$25,231,838+7.1%$0
553Veteran's Services$677,575$668,485+1.4%$0
554Housing and Urban Development$11,100,602$15,432,661-28.1%$0
559Other Economic Environment$135,803$102,376+32.7%$0
Human Services$159,979,332$133,919,475+19.5%$0
561Hospital Services$123,106,155$91,207,695+35.0%$0
562Health Services$5,815,388$5,343,107+8.8%$0
563Mental Health Services$3,243,542$3,304,847-1.9%$0
564Public Assistance Services$24,176,577$30,744,647-21.4%$0
569Other Human Services$3,637,670$3,319,179+9.6%$0
Culture / Recreation$38,449,414$27,143,859+41.7%$0
571Libraries$6,873,776$6,925,583-0.7%$0
572Parks and Recreation$31,575,638$19,475,624+62.1%$0
579Other Culture / Recreation$742,652
Other Uses and Non-Operating$115,544,123$58,514,542+97.5%$0
581Inter-fund Group Transfers Out$115,544,123$58,514,542+97.5%$0
Court-Related Expenditures$44,917,456$43,031,543+4.4%$0
601General Administration - Court Administration$731,638$578,282+26.5%$0
602General Administration - State Attorney Administration$90,506$110,955-18.4%$0
603General Administration - Public Defender Administration$87,634$99,416-11.9%$0
604General Administration - Clerk of Court Administration$1,304,312$1,157,265+12.7%$0
608General Administration - Jury Management$847,188$802,397+5.6%$0
614Circuit Court - Criminal - Clerk of Court Administration$1,961,746$2,007,475-2.3%$0
622Circuit Court - Criminal - Drug Court$290,953$273,084+6.5%$0
623Circuit Court - Criminal - Pre-Trial Release$1,780,114$1,785,276-0.3%$0
634Circuit Court - Civil - Clerk of Court Administration$672,883$696,221-3.4%$0
642Circuit Court - Civil - Alternative Dispute Resolution$265$0
654Circuit Court - Family - Clerk of Court Administration$1,782,559$1,732,068+2.9%$0
671Circuit Court - Juvenile - Court Administration$241,803$222,756+8.6%$0
674Circuit Court - Juvenile - Clerk of Court Administration$1,011,594$951,580+6.3%$0
684Circuit Court - Juvenile - Drug Court$278,940$273,084+2.1%$0
685Circuit Court - Juvenile - Guardian Ad Litem$1,495$693+115.7%$0
694Circuit Court - Probate - Clerk of Court Administration$872,719$712,976+22.4%$0
711General Court-Related Operations - Courthouse Security$10,421,866$9,401,560+10.9%$0
712General Court-Related Operations - Courthouse Facilities$2,601,514$2,326,395+11.8%$0
713General Court-Related Operations - Information Systems$5,355,630$5,990,662-10.6%$0
714General Court-Related Operations - Public Law Library$499,443$374,420+33.4%$0
715General Court-Related Operations - Legal Aid$352,791$318,801+10.7%$0
716General Court-Related Operations - Clerk of Court-Related Technology$2,644,563$2,556,138+3.5%$0
724County Court - Criminal - Clerk of Court Administration$2,714,877$2,616,887+3.7%$0
733County Court - Criminal - Misdemeanor Probation$2,622,106$2,637,575-0.6%$0
734County Court - Criminal - Drug Court$290,953$255,307+14.0%$0
739County Court - Criminal - Other Costs$1,090,082$1,036,035+5.2%$0
744County Court - Civil - Clerk of Court Administration$1,571,075$1,438,783+9.2%$0
764County Court - Traffic - Clerk of Court Administration$2,796,207$2,675,452+4.5%$0
Total, all account codes$2,761,973,929$2,429,491,537+13.7%$1,195,592,861

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