Where the money comes from and where it goes.

Fiscal year 2025 (July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025), audited actuals, all governmental funds (ACFR, governmental funds)

Total revenue $8.1B · total spending $8.9B (exact figures in the tables). Revenue and spending are separate measures; budgeted and audited years are separate records and are never compared as one.

Source: State of New Hampshire, Single Audit for the year ended June 30, 2025 (Department of Administrative Services, March 30, 2026), section C: basic financial statements from the FY2025 ACFR with KPMG's Independent Auditors' Report; filed with the Federal Audit Clearinghouse, report 2025-06-GSAFAC-0000402775.

County governments, fiscal year 2022 (Census of Governments; calendar year 2022 for seven counties, fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 for Grafton, Hillsborough and Sullivan)

Figures come from one source: the U.S. Census Bureau's 2022 Census of Governments: Finance individual unit file, the latest year that canvasses every government. No New Hampshire state compilation of county revenues and spending was read: every New Hampshire state website tried (Department of Revenue Administration, Department of Administrative Services, the Legislature's site, nh.gov) refused this workspace on Oct. 29, 2026 (see gaps). Each row is the county government only. Cities, towns, school districts and village districts inside the county are separate governments and are not included. Where a county runs services that charge fees (for example a county nursing home), Census counts those charges in revenue_total and the costs in spending_total. revenue_total = all revenue Census records for the government (taxes, charges, state and federal aid, interest and other general revenue, utility and insurance-trust revenue); it excludes borrowing and transfers between the county's own funds. spending_total = all expenditure (current operations, capital outlay, interest, assistance and payments to other governments); it excludes repayment of debt principal. property_tax = property tax revenue (Census code T01); it is part of revenue_total, not an addition. Revenue, spending and property tax are separate measures and are never added together. These are actual results as reported to Census, not budgets, and they are on Census's classification, not the counties' audited fund statements. A figure is left empty when more than 10% of its dollars are Census estimates (imputations); Census's estimate is kept, labeled, under census_imputed. Population is the Census Bureau's July 1, 2022 estimate (Vintage 2025); population_2025 is the July 1, 2025 estimate from the same release. All 10 counties were also in the sample of the Census 2024 Annual Survey and have a separate fy2024 block: a different year, never mixed with or compared to 2022 on the page. Spending per resident is our division of the county’s reported spending by its population.

Sullivan: Looks unusual and not checked against the county's audit: spending 35,821,000 dollars is more than twice revenue 14,180,000 dollars; property tax is 99.7% of revenue; the record has no charges (Census codes A) or state and federal aid (codes B, C). Shown as Census lists it.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Census of Governments: Finance, individual unit file (New Hampshire county governments; thousands of dollars); U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances, individual unit files (a sample; all 10 New Hampshire counties); U.S. Census Bureau, county population estimates, Vintage 2025 (co-est2025-alldata).

What is not here yet

• The FY2025 ACFR itself was not read: https://www.das.nh.gov/accounting/FY%2025/FY_2025_Annual_Comprehensive_Financial_Report.pdf and the Department of Administrative Services' ACFR page returned HTTP 403 (Access Denied) to this workspace on Oct. 29, 2026, WebFetch could not retrieve them, and the Internet Archive's copy (captured May 13, 2026) could not be reached (connection reset). The FY2025 figures come from the same statement as reproduced in the State's Single Audit report filed with the Federal Audit Clearinghouse.
• No enacted-budget entry: the FY2026-27 operating budget (HB 1 and HB 2 of 2025) and the Legislative Budget Assistant's and Department of Administrative Services' summaries of it were not read. The Legislature's site (gc.nh.gov) closed the connection to this workspace and its robots.txt bars automated reading; das.nh.gov, nh.gov and governor.nh.gov returned HTTP 403; LegiScan (a private copy of the bill texts) returned 403. Not yet checked: General Fund and all-funds appropriations for FY2026 and FY2027.
• No New Hampshire state compilation of county finances was read. https://www.revenue.nh.gov/ (Department of Revenue Administration) and https://www.nh.gov/ returned HTTP 403 (Access Denied) to this workspace on Oct. 29, 2026; the Legislature's site (gc.nh.gov) closed the connection and its robots.txt bars automated reading. Not yet checked: any Department of Revenue Administration county tax or budget records, and each county's audited statements.
• 2022 figures left empty because Census estimated more than 10% of the dollars: Cheshire, Coos, Grafton, Rockingham, Strafford (Census's estimates are kept under census_imputed).
• 2024 figures left empty for the same reason: Carroll (revenue_total, spending_total); Cheshire (spending_total); Coos (property_tax, revenue_total, spending_total); Grafton (spending_total); Rockingham (property_tax, revenue_total, spending_total); Strafford (property_tax, revenue_total, spending_total); Sullivan (property_tax, revenue_total, spending_total).
• Fiscal years: Grafton, Hillsborough, Sullivan report on a fiscal year ended June 30; the other counties on the calendar year. Shown as Census lists them; the two kinds of year are not the same 12 months.
• Rows that look unusual and were not checked against the county's audit (shown as Census lists them, each with a check_note): Sullivan (spending 35,821,000 dollars is more than twice revenue 14,180,000 dollars; property tax is 99.7% of revenue; the record has no charges (Census codes A) or state and federal aid (codes B, C)).
• 2024 blocks that look incomplete or unusual and were not checked against the county's audit (each with a check_note in its fy2024 block): Merrimack (only 5 items in the Census record and none for revenue_total, property_tax).
• Census figures follow Census's own classification and do not match a county's audited fund statements or adopted budget line for line.
• A statewide source of pay for elected county officials is not yet checked. State websites that might hold county budgets or pay (revenue.nh.gov, nh.gov and its TransparentNH pages, das.nh.gov, and the Legislature's gc.nh.gov) refused this workspace on Oct. 29, 2026 (HTTP 403, or a closed connection with automated reading barred by robots.txt), so whether one exists was not confirmed. Not yet checked: each county's adopted budget and payroll records, county by county.
• Which New Hampshire statutes set or limit county officers' pay was not checked; no rule about who sets the pay is stated as fact here.

Gaps in the public money records as of the date checked.