Monday, October 19, 2009

Pacifica Sales/Use Tax Revenues vs. other San Mateo County Towns

Here is a table of sales/use tax receipts per person in San Mateo County. Other than special case cities Hillsborough, Atherton and Portola Valley, which depend on property tax receipts, look at where Pacifica stands. At the bottom.

First column is the city, second is total sales/use tax revenues (2008), third is population (2007), and fourth is sales/use tax receipts per resident

Colma
4,820,310
1408
3423.52
Brisbane
3,343,842
3636
919.65
Burlingame
6,018,635
27550
218.46
San Carlos
5,206,471
27008
192.78
Foster City
5,208,880
28912
180.16
Redwood City
12,193,255
73603
165.66
Menlo Park
4,817,197
29964
160.77
South San Francisco
8,016,165
61870
129.56
San Mateo
11,002,120
91768
119.89
Half Moon Bay
1,404,034
12336
113.82
San Bruno
4,355,326
40017
108.84
Belmont
2,105,071
24643
85.42
Millbrae
1,583,042
20685
76.53
Woodside
387,727
5523
70.20
Daly City
6,715,220
100882
66.57
East Palo Alto
1,761,288
33097
53.22
Pacifica
1,189,114
37282
31.90
Portola Valley
113,505
4483
25.32
Atherton
105,861
7335
14.43
Hillsborough
72,419
10737
6.74

2 comments:

Kathy Meeh said...

Nice study, Pacifica is #1 again beat-out at the bottom, except for a few wealthy residential cities, and 40% below East Palo Alto, This works well with the prior Chamber of Commerce report, and 8 year city council economic plan: Recreation.

Coastal towns? Compare to Half Moon Bay with 3 1/2 times the revenue per resident than Pacifica.

Lionel Emde said...

Pacifica has long had a weak commercial base.
If there is an answer in this economic collapse, I'd like to hear it.
We have better and more accessible data now, but Pacifica has been the same for much longer than the past eight (8) years.
Our school district also bounces between lowest and second-lowest funded in the county. Ravenswood in EPA is our competitor for the bottom.