Fresno County, California

Overview

Fresno County's adopted FY 2025–2026 budget totals $5,374,254,933 in financing sources across all funds. Governmental funds account for $4,881,869,921 of that total, and other funds $492,385,012. Public Assistance ($1,657,222,935) is the largest financing use by function, followed by Health & Sanitation ($1,300,513,829) and Public Protection ($1,164,038,764). The General Fund totals $2,620,106,608, built from $89,000,000 in available fund balance plus $2,531,106,608 in additional financing sources.

Source: Fresno County FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget Book (county site).

At a glance — adopted budget FY 2025–2026

Source: Fresno County FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget Book, State Controller schedules.

Funds — financing sources

Governmental fund components sum exactly to the governmental total.

Source: Fresno County FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget Book, Schedule 1.

General Fund

Fund balance available $89,000,000 + additional financing sources $2,531,106,608 = $2,620,106,608 (exact).

Source: Fresno County FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget Book, Schedule 2.

Financing uses by function — Schedule 7, adopted

Function lines sum to the subtotal; adding General Fund contingencies gives the governmental total (exact).

Schedule 8 difference, explained: Schedule 8 reports “Total General” as $437,773,066, which is $39,500,000 higher than Schedule 7's General function of $398,273,066. The difference is exactly the contingencies line: Schedule 8 folds contingencies into the General total, while Schedule 7 lists contingencies separately. This is a presentation difference between schedules, not an error in either figure.

Source: Fresno County FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget Book, Schedules 7 and 8.

Appropriations limit

Source: Fresno County FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget Book.

Elected officials

The Board of Supervisors and other elected officials are not named in the cited excerpts of the adopted budget book used for this page, so no names are shown here rather than naming officials from an unverified source. No contact details are shown.

Source: Fresno County FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget Book.

Livability — Fresno County

Fresno County scores 40.9 on the Hometown Numbers Livability Index, ranked #47 of 58 ranked California counties. Violent crime: 627.3 reported violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2024 (FBI Crime Data Explorer; score 14.9, where a higher score means a lower rate). Full rankings: California livability rankings.

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 — Fresno County

County-level figures for Fresno County.

Source: American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates (2020–2024), tables B25077 (median home value) and B25064 (median gross rent).

Public schools — Fresno County

Schools physically located in Fresno County.

362 public schools in 55 school districts, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES EDGE Public School Locations, 2024–25 school year).

4 schools in the NCES 2024–25 locations list for this county are not shown because they are not currently open: Clovis South High (status 7), Jaswant Singh Khalra Elementary (status 7), John F. Kennedy Middle (status 7), Phillip V. Sanchez Intermediate (status 7) — temporarily closed (status 6) or scheduled to open within 2 years (status 7) under NCES CCD operational status codes.

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 Fresno County’s General Fund spending per resident and fund-balance share compare with adjacent counties, computed from each dashboard’s own published figures.

GF figure: General Fund total, FY 2025-26 adopted.

Fund-balance % dashed: fund balance available $89,000,000 is beginning, not ending

Monterey County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published ($23,456,768 is fund-balance use/gap, not ending)

San Benito County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published (reserves $7,090,000 + restricted $5,065,000 are capital-component reserves)

Tulare County: Fund-balance % dashed: June 30, 2026 balance $134,664,768 is beginning of FY 2026-27, not ending

Inyo County: No Inyo 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.

Kings County: No Kings 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.

Madera County: No Madera 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: Fresno County FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget Book, fiscal year July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026 (county-site PDF). FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget Book.
• Sum checks: governmental funds exact ($2,620,106,608 + $2,044,926,307 + $169,768,756 + $47,068,250 = $4,881,869,921); General Fund walk exact ($89,000,000 + $2,531,106,608 = $2,620,106,608); function subtotal plus contingencies exact ($4,842,369,921 + $39,500,000 = $4,881,869,921).
• What is not claimed: no outstanding-debt total is shown because none was extracted from this budget book; the Debt Service function figure ($47,068,250) is a financing use, not debt outstanding.
• Jurisdiction palette: Page accent: #EE8F1F, sampled from Fresno County's official homepage (fresnocountyca.gov) on 2026-10-25 — orange search button and service icons; the dark-theme accent (#FADDBC) 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.

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