This report summarizes the financial state of the major local governments outside of New York City (counties, cities, towns, villages, school districts and fire districts) for local fiscal years ending in 2024. The data is presented in a series of statistical “dashboards” that illustrate aggregate local government revenues, expenditures and debt, as well as those for each class of government. | NYS Local Government Interactive Data

Sales tax collections for local governments and other local taxing entities in New York State totaled $24.4 billion in 2025, up 4.5 percent ($1 billion) over the prior year. This growth was close to three times the year-over-year increase for 2024 (1.6 percent) and higher than the 3.8 percent average pre-pandemic rate. All of the state’s 10 regions saw year-over-year increases in collections in 2025. New York City’s sales taxes grew by 5 percent ($521 million), while collections in the counties and cities in the rest of the state experienced 3.9 percent ($451 million) aggregate growth.

Sales tax collections for local governments and other local taxing entities in New York State totaled $18.2 billion from January to September 2025, up 4.3 percent ($747 million) over the same period in 2024. This growth was more than twice as high as the growth rate for the same period last year (1.7 percent) and higher than the 3.8 percent average pre-pandemic rate. All of the state’s 10 regions saw year-over-year increases in collections from January to September.

Sales tax collections for local governments and other local taxing entities in New York State totaled $11.9 billion in the first half of 2025, up 3.7 percent ($423 million) over the same period last year. Over the past few years, since the end of the dramatic pandemic-related swings in collections from 2020 to 2022, first-half sales taxes are showing similar patterns of growth as in the years following the recession-related dip in 2009. All of the state’s 10 regions saw year-over-year growth in first-half collections.

Sales tax collections for local governments and other local taxing entities in New York State totaled $5.8 billion in the first calendar quarter of 2025, up 3.2 percent ($180 million) from the prior year. This growth, while higher than that in January-March 2024 (1.6 percent), marked the second straight year that first quarter growth was below the 3.5 percent average growth rate for the 2010 to 2019 period of recovery and expansion following the Great Recession. All of the state’s 10 regions saw year-over-year growth in first quarter collections.

This report provides a summary analysis of the financial state of the local governments outside of New York City for local fiscal years ending in 2023. In FYE 2023, local governments and school districts were generally able to maintain fund balance levels and cash on hand due to pandemic-related federal funding and large increases in state aid, while lower inflation compared to FYE 2022 tempered growth in expenditures on equipment and materials. | NYS Local Government Interactive Data

This report examines the ways that funding received by local governments – from federal stimulus programs – as well as volatile annual state and local revenue sources – can impact local budgeting. The temporary nature of the federal stimulus funds in combination with state aid that has not kept pace with inflation, sales tax growth that has returned to lower pre-pandemic levels, and flat property tax revenue growth can put local governments closer to the edge of the fiscal cliff if not carefully managed.

Sales tax collections for local governments and other local taxing entities in New York State totaled $23.4 billion in calendar year 2024, up 1.6 percent (or nearly $376 million) from the prior year. This increase not only marked the lowest year-over-year rate of growth in collections since the COVID-related decline in 2020, but it was less than half the average annual growth rate (3.8 percent) for the 2011 to 2019 period of recovery and expansion following the Great Recession.

Local government sales tax collections in New York State totaled $5.98 billion in the third calendar quarter of 2024, up 1.4 percent (or $82.7 million) compared to the same quarter last year. Statewide local collections this past quarter continued a general trend of declining growth that followed a post-pandemic spike. In fact, the third quarter’s 1.4 percent growth was the lowest quarterly year-over-year increase following the pandemic-induced declines.

Local government sales tax collections in New York State totaled $5.83 billion in the second calendar quarter of 2024, up 2.2 percent (or $127 million) compared to the same quarter last year. While year-over-year growth in the second quarter was slightly stronger than the 1.6 percent increase seen in the first quarter, it still lagged growth rates realized after the first quarter in 2021. However, it was not unusual to see collections increase around (or under) 2 percent, year over year, in the decade before the pandemic.