Overview
At June 30, 2025, Amador County's total net position was $94,976,077: $73,374,689 invested in capital assets net of related debt, $70,848,863 restricted for specific purposes, and negative $49,247,475 unrestricted. Total revenues and transfers were $146,799,230 against total expenses of $130,074,538, a $16,724,692 operating increase before the accounting-principle restatement. Governmental funds ended the year with combined fund balances of $96,646,230, up $5,353,120, of which $20,500,535 (21.2%) was available (assigned plus unassigned).
Source: County of Amador Annual Financial Report, year ended June 30, 2025, Management's Discussion and Analysis and condensed statements.
At a glance — year ended June 30, 2025
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Source: County of Amador Annual Financial Report, year ended June 30, 2025, MD&A.
General Fund — year ended June 30, 2025
The General Fund is the county's chief operating fund. Its total fund balance reached $40,938,216 at June 30, 2025, of which available fund balance was $21,812,221 — 29% of total General Fund expenditures, with total fund balance about 55% of those expenditures. The General Fund balance increased by $280,249 during the year. The report's budgetary comparison schedule (p. 77) was not separately extracted, so no original-vs.-final budget variance is claimed here; the figures below are the MD&A's stated fund-balance measures, not a revenue/expenditure table.
The MD&A also reports the final amended General Fund budget grew over the original budget by: general government +$9,844,011; public protection +$2,039,935; public assistance +$71,624; education +$168,478; recreation and cultural services +$9,100; capital outlay +$514,570; contingency +$13,751; debt service principal and interest +$0.
Source: County of Amador Annual Financial Report, year ended June 30, 2025, MD&A, Financial Analysis of the Governmental Funds and General Fund Budgetary Highlights.
Funds & activities — FY 2024-25
| Governmental activity expense | FY 2024-25 |
|---|---|
| Public protection | $67,075,214 |
| Public assistance | $22,257,246 |
| Health and welfare | $20,259,011 |
| General government | $10,104,239 |
| Public ways and facilities | $7,625,493 |
| Education | $1,428,712 |
| Culture and recreation | $363,686 |
| Interest and fiscal charges | $55,004 |
| Total governmental expenses | $129,168,605 |
Governmental revenues: program revenues were fees, fines and charges $18,515,244, operating grants $71,836,906, and capital grants $10,889,231; general revenues were property taxes $29,335,507, sales and use taxes $3,854,804, other taxes and fees $1,456,835, interest and investment earnings $3,949,077, other revenue $2,245,687, and gain on sale of capital assets $135,545 — totaling $142,218,836 for governmental activities. Business-type activities (the County Airport) added $4,580,394 in revenues against $905,933 in expenses.
Major governmental funds, FY 2024-25 revenues and expenditures as summarized in the MD&A: Social Services revenues $19.2M, expenditures $20.9M; Mental Health revenues $17.2M, expenditures $12.4M; Road revenues $8.6M, expenditures $7.1M; AB 118 County Local Revenue revenues $9.2M, expenditures $8.1M; County Improvement revenues $10.1M, expenditures $13.6M (Jail Expansion Project in full force, with over $7.2M in State reimbursements). These are rounded MD&A summaries, not the audited fund statements, and are labeled as such.
Source: County of Amador Annual Financial Report, year ended June 30, 2025, condensed Statement of Activities and MD&A fund analysis.
Debt & liabilities
Total long-term obligations at June 30, 2025 were $128,557,368, up $13,369,813 from the prior year, primarily from increased right-to-use liabilities. The components sum exactly to the total:
| Long-term obligation | June 30, 2025 |
|---|---|
| Net pension liability | $83,225,909 |
| Right-to-use asset liability | $21,550,496 |
| Landfill closure / postclosure | $10,854,317 |
| Compensated absences | $4,884,428 |
| Net liability for other postemployment benefits | $4,358,820 |
| Loans payable | $2,791,863 |
| Certificates of participation | $629,000 |
| Subscription-based information technology arrangements | $212,391 |
| Financed purchases | $50,144 |
| Total long-term obligations | $128,557,368 |
Source: County of Amador Annual Financial Report, year ended June 30, 2025, MD&A, Debt Administration.
Board meetings
The Board of Supervisors meets on Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m. — not every Tuesday; dates follow the county calendar — at the County Administration Center, Board of Supervisors Chambers, 810 Court Street, Jackson.
Next meeting: Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 9:00 a.m.
Livability — Amador County
Amador County scores 65.4 on the Hometown Numbers Livability Index, ranked #4 of 58 ranked California counties. Violent crime: 305.0 reported violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2024 (FBI Crime Data Explorer; score 81.6, where a higher score means a lower rate). Full rankings: California livability rankings.
| Component | Value | Score (0–100) |
|---|---|---|
| Housing affordability (median home value ÷ median household income) | 5.11 | 85.3 |
| Median household income | $88,044 | 52.6 |
| Mean commute time | 34.0 minutes | 7.8 |
| Violent crime (reported crimes per 100,000 residents) | 305.0 | 81.6 |
| High school graduation rate | 92.3% | 86.6 |
| Uninsured rate | 5.7% | 78.4 |
| Unemployment rate | Not retrievable (see note) | — |
Method: percentile rank (count below + 0.5 × count equal) ÷ N × 100, lower-better measures inverted; composite is the mean of available component scores, rounded to 1 decimal; a county needs at least 5 of 7 components or it is unranked, never estimated. Vintages: ACS 2024 5-year (2020–2024) for housing affordability, income, and commute; FBI Crime Data Explorer 2024 for violent crime; County Health Rankings 2025 release for graduation and uninsured. Unemployment (BLS LAUS 2024) is missing for every California county because the BLS public API was unreachable (HTTP 503) on 2026-10-25; composites rest on the other components and will be recomputed if BLS data becomes available.
Housing prices — Amador County
County-level figures for Amador County.
| Median home value | $449,800 |
| Median gross rent | $1,421 per month |
Source: American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates (2020–2024), tables B25077 (median home value) and B25064 (median gross rent).
Public schools — Amador County
Schools physically located in Amador County.
15 public schools in 3 school districts, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES EDGE Public School Locations, 2024–25 school year).
| School | Level | District | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amador County ROP | High (12-12) | Amador County ROP | Jackson |
| Amador County Special Education | Other (KG-12) | Amador County Office of Education | Jackson |
| Amador High | High (09-12) | Amador County Unified | Sutter Creek |
| Argonaut High | High (09-12) | Amador County Unified | Jackson |
| County Community | Other (01-12) | Amador County Office of Education | Sutter Creek |
| Independence High (Continuation) | High (09-12) | Amador County Unified | Sutter Creek |
| Ione Elementary | Elementary (KG-06) | Amador County Unified | Ione |
| Ione Junior High | Middle (06-08) | Amador County Unified | Ione |
| Jackson Elementary | Elementary (KG-06) | Amador County Unified | Jackson |
| Jackson Junior High | Middle (06-08) | Amador County Unified | Jackson |
| North Star Academy | Other (KG-12) | Amador County Unified | Sutter Creek |
| Pine Grove Elementary STEM Magnet | Elementary (KG-06) | Amador County Unified | Jackson |
| Pioneer Magnet School for the Visual and Performing Arts | Elementary (KG-06) | Amador County Unified | Pioneer |
| Plymouth Elementary | Elementary (KG-06) | Amador County Unified | Plymouth |
| Sutter Creek Elementary | Elementary (KG-06) | Amador County Unified | Sutter Creek |
School performance (proficiency): district-level proficiency values are published in the federal Ed Data Express tool and are retrievable by CSV export, but they have not yet been added to this page — the export requires a live-browser download (direct requests to the tool are blocked), so no proficiency figures are shown rather than substituted ones. Source for the list: NCES EDGE Public School Locations — Current, 2024–25.
Neighbor comparison
How Amador County’s General Fund spending per resident and fund-balance share compare with adjacent counties, computed from each dashboard’s own published figures.
| Government | Per-capita GF spending | Fund balance % |
|---|---|---|
| Amador County (this dashboard) | — | — |
| Calaveras County | — | 14.8% |
| El Dorado County | $2,445.73 | — |
| San Joaquin County | $1,715.49 | — |
| Alpine County (no dashboard yet) | — | — |
| Sacramento County (no dashboard yet) | — | — |
GF total dashed: no GF expenditure total published
Fund balance: total GF fund balance, June 30, 2025 (fb % not computed: page states only an approximate ~55% ratio and no exact GF total; nothing reverse-engineered).
Calaveras County: GF total dashed: no GF expenditure total published ($168,085,222 on the page is Total liabilities, not GF expenditures)
El Dorado County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published (reserves/designations listed, no ending total)
San Joaquin County: Fund-balance % dashed: June 30, 2025 balance $382,458,987 is prior-year ending, not FY 2025-26 ending
Alpine County: No Alpine County dashboard in this dataset (no county GF figure exists here); a city dashboard in the county, if any, does not supply a county figure.
Sacramento County: No Sacramento County dashboard in this dataset (no county GF figure exists here); a city dashboard in the county, if any, does not supply a county figure.
Per-capita GF spending = the dashboard’s published General Fund total ÷ county population (ACS 2024 5-year, table B01003). Fund balance % = published GF ending balance ÷ GF total for the same fiscal year unless noted.
— in the fund-balance column means no GF ending balance is published on that dashboard (adopted budgets typically state only a January 1 balance).
Neighbor rows are county figures for the counties adjacent to the home county (U.S. Census Bureau County Adjacency File, 2024; out-of-state neighbors excluded).
Sources & notes
- Only source used: County of Amador Annual Financial Report for the year ended June 30, 2025 (Smith & Newell CPAs, unmodified opinion). Read the report (county site).
- Sum checks: net position components $73,374,689 + $70,848,863 − $49,247,475 = $94,976,077; revenues $146,799,230 − expenses $130,074,538 = $16,724,692; restated beginning $78,251,385 + $16,724,692 = $94,976,077; governmental expenses sum to $129,168,605; long-term obligations sum to $128,557,368; fund-balance remainder $96,646,230 − $20,500,535 = $76,145,695 (nonspendable $6,045,252 + restricted $66,087,674 + committed $4,012,769).
- Disclosed, not smoothed: (1) the $18,014,065 "increase" in the highlights includes the $1,289,373 accounting-principle restatement — see the basis notice; (2) major-fund revenue/expenditure figures are rounded MD&A summaries; (3) the General Fund budgetary comparison schedule was not separately extracted, so no budget-vs.-actual variance is claimed.
- Fiscal-year label: year ended June 30, 2025 (FY 2024-25 actuals); audit adopted GASB Statement No. 101, Compensated Absences, in 2024-25, with no modification to the opinion.
- Jurisdiction palette: Page accent: #0A3A7A, sampled from Amador County's official homepage (amadorcounty.gov) on 2026-10-25 — dark navy main nav bar; secondary homepage green #2F5D1A service tiles; the dark-theme accent (#B6C4D7) is a lightened tint of the same color for contrast on the dark background. Shades are rendered approximations from the live homepage, not stylesheet values.