Overview
Colusa County's adopted budget schedules for FY 2025-26 show total financing sources of $164,594,474 for all funds, exactly matched by financing uses of $160,530,831 plus increases to obligated fund balances of $4,063,643. Governmental funds account for $156,119,546 of those sources and $153,249,936 of uses (plus $2,869,610 in increases to obligated balances). The county's operating weight sits outside the General Fund: health, social services, public works, and behavioral health special revenue funds dominate the totals, and the General Fund itself is $41,611,180 — about one quarter of the all-funds total.
Source: County of Colusa FY-2026 Adopted Budget Schedules (content: FY 2025-26), Schedule 1.
At a glance — FY 2025-26 adopted
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Source: County of Colusa adopted budget schedules, Schedule 1 and Schedule A.
General Fund — FY 2025-26 adopted
The General Fund's total financing sources of $41,611,180 are funded by additional financing sources of $34,681,699 plus decreases to obligated fund balances of $6,929,481 — that is, the county drew down $6,929,481 of prior-year obligated balances to balance the General Fund. Financing uses are $41,611,180, matching the total exactly, so no increase to obligated balances is shown for the General Fund. That drawdown is the single largest structural fact in the General Fund schedule: 16.7% of the General Fund's financing comes from prior balances, not from current-year revenue.
| Governmental funds — FY 2025-26 adopted | Total financing sources |
|---|---|
| General Fund | $41,611,180 |
| Special Revenue Funds | $95,352,253 |
| Capital Projects Funds | $19,156,113 |
| Total governmental funds | $156,119,546 |
Total governmental financing uses are $153,249,936, plus $2,869,610 in increases to obligated balances, matching the $156,119,546 sources total. The per-fund split of uses was not separately extracted and is not shown.
Largest special revenue funds by total financing: Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) $17,447,213; Department of Public Works $14,883,877; Behavioral Health $10,540,275; Welfare Administration $7,233,545. The county also lists additional proprietary and other funds that bring the all-funds total to $164,594,474; the schedules' enterprise and internal service detail was not separately extracted and is not shown here.
Source: County of Colusa adopted budget schedules, Schedule 1.
Road Fund — FY 2025-26 work program
The Road Fund work program (Schedule A) shows appropriations of $11,244,378 against total available financing of $17,575,006 — estimated revenues $6,955,006, plus interest and other financing sources $620,000, plus assigned fund balance $10,000,000. The requirements that sum to $11,244,378 are: salaries and benefits $4,878,635; services and supplies $8,198,708; capital assets $1,118,500; reimbursements (negative) $2,965,257; transfers out $13,792. The revenue detail itself totals $7,575,006 (State revenue $5,729,076; federal revenue $45,000; transfers in $1,145,330; and small remaining items), which matches the $6,955,006 estimated revenues plus $620,000 of interest and other financing sources.
Source: County of Colusa adopted budget schedules, Schedule A (Road Fund work program).
Livability — Colusa County
Colusa County scores 53.4 on the Hometown Numbers Livability Index, ranked #22 of 58 ranked California counties. Violent crime: 382.9 reported violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2024 (FBI Crime Data Explorer; score 65.8, 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) | 5.2 | 81.9 |
| Median household income | $75,672 | 38.8 |
| Mean commute time | 24.2 minutes | 62.9 |
| Violent crime (reported crimes per 100,000 residents) | 382.9 | 65.8 |
| High school graduation rate | 90.0% | 65.2 |
| Uninsured rate | 9.8% | 6.0 |
| 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 — Colusa County
County-level figures for Colusa County.
| Median home value | $393,400 |
| Median gross rent | $1,157 per month |
Source: American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates (2020–2024), tables B25077 (median home value) and B25064 (median gross rent).
Public schools — Colusa County
Schools physically located in Colusa County.
23 public schools in 7 school districts, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES EDGE Public School Locations, 2024–25 school year).
| School | Level | District | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arbuckle Alternative High (Continuation) | High (09-12) | Pierce Joint Unified | Arbuckle |
| Arbuckle Elementary | Elementary (KG-05) | Pierce Joint Unified | Arbuckle |
| Coastal Buttes Academy | Other (KG-12) | Colusa County Office of Education | Williams |
| Colusa Alternative High (Continuation) | High (09-12) | Colusa Unified | Colusa |
| Colusa Alternative Home | Other (KG-12) | Colusa Unified | Colusa |
| Colusa High | High (09-12) | Colusa Unified | Colusa |
| George T. Egling Middle | Middle (04-08) | Colusa Unified | Colusa |
| Grand Island Elementary | Elementary (KG-06) | Pierce Joint Unified | Grimes |
| Indian Valley Intermediate | Middle (05-08) | Stony Creek Joint Unified | Stonyford |
| James M. Burchfield Primary | Elementary (KG-03) | Colusa Unified | Colusa |
| Lloyd G. Johnson Junior High | Middle (06-08) | Pierce Joint Unified | Arbuckle |
| Maxwell Elementary | Elementary (KG-05) | Maxwell Unified | Maxwell |
| Maxwell Middle | Middle (06-08) | Maxwell Unified | Maxwell |
| Maxwell Sr High | High (09-12) | Maxwell Unified | Maxwell |
| Mid Valley High (Continuation) | High (10-12) | Williams Unified | Williams |
| Pierce High | High (09-12) | Pierce Joint Unified | Arbuckle |
| Princeton Elementary | Elementary (KG-08) | Princeton Joint Unified | Princeton |
| Princeton High | High (09-12) | Princeton Joint Unified | Princeton |
| Princeton Landing High | High (10-12) | Princeton Joint Unified | Princeton |
| S. William Abel Academy | High (07-12) | Colusa County Office of Education | Williams |
| Williams Junior/Senior High | High (07-12) | Williams Unified | Williams |
| Williams Primary Elementary | Elementary (KG-03) | Williams Unified | Williams |
| Williams Upper Elementary | Middle (04-06) | Williams Unified | Williams |
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 Colusa 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 % |
|---|---|---|
| Colusa County (this dashboard) | $1,892.79 | — |
| Glenn County | $5,027.78 | — |
| Lake County | $1,545.25 | — |
| Sutter County | $926.58 | — |
| Yolo County | $529.24 | 95.11% |
| Butte County (no dashboard yet) | — | — |
GF figure: General Fund total financing sources, FY 2025-26 adopted.
Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published ($6,929,481 is a drawdown of prior obligated balances)
Glenn County: Fund-balance % dashed: fund balance available -$5,246,414 is beginning (negative), not ending
Lake County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published ($13,669,130 is governmental provisions for obligated balances, not GF ending)
Sutter County: Fund-balance % dashed: June 30, 2025 balance $51,507,421 is prior-year, not FY 2025-26 ending
Butte County: No Butte 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 Colusa adopted budget schedules (State Controller schedules), Document Center file "FY-2026 Adopted Budget Schedules." Read the schedules.
- Sum checks: all funds $160,530,831 + $4,063,643 = $164,594,474; governmental $41,611,180 + $95,352,253 + $19,156,113 = $156,119,546; governmental $153,249,936 + $2,869,610 = $156,119,546; General Fund $34,681,699 + $6,929,481 = $41,611,180; Road Fund $6,955,006 + $620,000 + $10,000,000 = $17,575,006; Road Fund requirements sum to $11,244,378.
- Disclosed, not smoothed: (1) filename/content mismatch — file titled FY-2026, content labeled FY 2025-26; (2) the FY 2026-27 final budget was not pulled, so no FY 2026-27 figures appear; (3) enterprise and internal service fund detail was not separately extracted; (4) the Board adoption date for these schedules is not stated in the retrieved excerpt, so none is claimed.
- Fiscal-year label: FY 2025-26 (July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026), adopted budget schedules. County seat Colusa.
- Page accent: #4C5958, the Colusa County’s official site theme color (countyofcolusa.org); the dark-theme accent (#ACB9B8) is a lightened tint of the same color for contrast on the dark background.