Ventura County, California

Overview

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024, Ventura County's governmental funds took in $2,046,144 thousand in revenues and spent $1,860,672 thousand, an excess of $185,472 thousand. Aid from other governmental units ($860,710 thousand) and taxes ($735,953 thousand) together supplied about 78% of governmental revenues; public protection ($869,495 thousand) was by far the largest expenditure function. Separately, the FY 2023-24 adopted budget's General Fund schedule balanced $1,458,836,164 in total financing sources against the same total in financing uses.

Source: County of Ventura ACFR statistical section (FY 2023-24 column, in thousands).

Source: County of Ventura FY 2023-24 adopted budget, Schedule 2.

At a glance — FY 2023-24

Source: County of Ventura ACFR statistical section (FY 2023-24 column, in thousands).

Governmental funds actuals, FY 2023-24 (in thousands)

Revenues by source sum exactly to $2,046,144 thousand.

Expenditures by function sum exactly to $1,860,672 thousand. Recreation is printed as “—” (zero) in the FY 2023-24 column.

Excess of revenues over expenditures: $2,046,144K − $1,860,672K = $185,472K.

Source: County of Ventura ACFR statistical section (FY 2023-24 column, in thousands).

General Fund adopted budget, FY 2023-24 (exact dollars)

From the adopted-budget Schedule 2. Both sides balance exactly at $1,458,836,164.

Source: County of Ventura FY 2023-24 adopted budget, Schedule 2.

Elected officials

Supervisor names are not shown in the ACFR statistical excerpts or the adopted-budget Schedule 2 cited here, so no names are listed rather than supplied from another source.

Source: County of Ventura ACFR FY 2023-24, letter of transmittal.

Board meetings

The Board of Supervisors holds its regular meetings most Tuesdays at 8:30 a.m. in the Board of Supervisors Hearing Room, Hall of Administration, 800 South Victoria Avenue, Ventura, on dates set by the Board’s adopted calendar — not every Tuesday (no meeting on a fifth Tuesday, on a Tuesday following a Monday holiday, during summer recess, or when canceled under the adopted calendar).

County of Ventura Board meeting rules (time and place)

No next meeting date is asserted here — see the Clerk of the Board’s agendas for the next scheduled date.

Livability — Ventura County

Ventura County scores 49.9 on the Hometown Numbers Livability Index, ranked #30 of 58 ranked California counties. Violent crime: 298.9 reported violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2024 (FBI Crime Data Explorer; score 85.1, 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 — Ventura County

County-level figures for Ventura County.

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

Public schools — Ventura County

Schools physically located in Ventura County.

236 public schools in 49 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 Ventura 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 financing sources, adopted.

Fund-balance % dashed: fund balance available $111,431,474 is beginning, not ending

Kern County: GF total dashed: no GF total published (page reports County Funds group $4,358,790,731 and All Funds only)

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

Los Angeles County: GF total dashed: no GF total claimed: page's fund-group label is 'Total General County' ($40,097M), explicitly not 'General Fund' alone

Los Angeles County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published

Santa Barbara County: GF total dashed: no GF total shown from the adopted-budget summary (per page disclosure)

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

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

• Sources used: County of Ventura, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024 (transmittal April 29, 2025; clean opinion, Eide Bailly, LLP) — figures read from the published statistical section's FY 2023-24 column, in thousands: Statistical Section; and County of Ventura FY 2023-24 adopted budget, Schedule 2 (exact dollars): Schedule 2. The inventory's ACFR link points to the transmittal letter only: Letter of Transmittal 2024.
• Sum checks: governmental revenue sources exact ($2,046,144K); governmental expenditure functions exact ($1,860,672K); excess exact ($185,472K); General Fund adopted sources and uses each exact ($1,458,836,164).
• What is not claimed: no exact-dollar ACFR statement figures (the statistical column is in thousands); no General Fund audited actuals (not extracted from statement pages); no supervisor names (not shown in the cited excerpts).
• Jurisdiction palette: no verified California jurisdiction palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a jurisdiction color.

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