Stanislaus County, California

Overview

Stanislaus County’s 2025 Adopted Budget totals $1,852,892,747 in appropriations, funded by $1,690,148,343 in revenue and $162,744,404 in fund balance / funding required — an exact three-way walk. The General Fund is $543,525,122, up $39.8 million from the 2024 Adopted Budget of $503.7 million and $15.4 million above the 2025 Proposed Budget, including a $15 million third and final installment of the Building Community Services Investment. The adopted staffing allocation is 4,926 positions, a net increase of seven. Special Revenue Funds, at $1,021,630,977, are more than half the budget, led by Behavioral Health and Recovery Services, Community Services Agency, and Workforce Development.

Source: Stanislaus County, 2025 Adopted Budget, Executive Summary.

At a glance — 2025 adopted (FY ending June 30, 2025)

Source: Stanislaus County, 2025 Adopted Budget, Executive Summary.

Adopted budget by fund type

Appropriations, revenues, and funding required each sum exactly to their totals, and revenue plus funding required equals appropriations for every fund type and in total.

General Fund context from the book: the General Fund began the fiscal year with a $248,113,070 balance (July 1, 2024) and is projected to end at $175,926,418 (June 30, 2025); discretionary revenue is estimated at $310.3 million, with $161 million in department revenue and $72.2 million in fund-balance use bringing General Fund funding to $543.5 million.

Source: Stanislaus County, 2025 Adopted Budget, Executive Summary (Adopted Budget by Fund Type; General Fund summary).

Adopted budget by Board priority

The priority table sums exactly to the $1,852,892,747 total, and its resources table (department revenue $1,335,056,019 + county match revenue $44,745,944 + department fund balance $90,557,752 + General Fund contribution $382,533,032) also sums exactly to $1,852,892,747.

Source: Stanislaus County, 2025 Adopted Budget, Executive Summary (Adopted Budget by Priority).

Elected officials

Board of Supervisors as listed on the budget book’s title page; the Chief Executive Officer is appointed.

Source: Stanislaus County, 2025 Adopted Budget, title page.

Board meetings

The Board of Supervisors holds regular morning meetings on Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m. in the Board Chambers (basement level), 1010 10th Street, Modesto. The Board also holds evening sessions at times (the October 20, 2026 regular meeting began at 6:30 p.m., following a 5:30 p.m. special meeting) — so no single next date and time is asserted here.

Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors (agendas and meetings)

No next meeting date is asserted here — see the official agendas page for the next scheduled date and time.

Livability — Stanislaus County

Stanislaus County scores 49.9 on the Hometown Numbers Livability Index, ranked #30 of 58 ranked California counties. Violent crime: 469.4 reported violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2024 (FBI Crime Data Explorer; score 41.2, 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 — Stanislaus County

County-level figures for Stanislaus County.

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

Public schools — Stanislaus County

Schools physically located in Stanislaus County.

188 public schools in 37 school districts, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES EDGE Public School Locations, 2024–25 school year).

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 Stanislaus 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 appropriations, 2025 Adopted Budget.

Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published ($72,186,652 funding required is a gap, not ending)

Calaveras County: GF total dashed: no GF expenditure total published ($168,085,222 on the page is Total liabilities, not GF expenditures)

Mariposa County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published

San Joaquin County: Fund-balance % dashed: June 30, 2025 balance $382,458,987 is prior-year ending, not FY 2025-26 ending

Santa Clara County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published

Tuolumne County: Fund-balance % dashed: fund balance available $3,524,876 is beginning, not ending

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

• Source used: Stanislaus County, 2025 Adopted Budget (submitted by Chief Executive Officer Jody Hayes). Budget book. County labels budgets by ending calendar year, so the “2025” book is FY 2024-25; approval September 17, 2024, per the county’s official 2025 Third Quarter report.
• Sum checks: fund-type appropriations exact ($1,852,892,747); fund-type revenues exact ($1,690,148,343); funding required exact ($162,744,404); revenue + funding required = appropriations, per fund type and in total; priority appropriations exact; priority resources exact.
• What is not claimed: no FY 2025-26 adopted figures (2026 book not retrieved); no revenue-by-source breakdown beyond the discretionary-revenue summary; no outstanding-debt total from the extracted summary.
• Jurisdiction palette: no verified Stanislaus County palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a county color.

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