Total operating expenses: 5-year growth (nominal)
Compound annual growth in finance.expenses.total over approximately 5 years, in nominal dollars.
total · 2024
- Algonquin Highlands6.1% a year
- Minden Hills5.5% a year
- Dysart et al4.8% a year
- Highlands East3.0% a year
2.0× between the largest and the smallest.
What these figures carry
- Nominal. Read alongside the constant-dollar version: Ontario CPI rose about 14% in the three years to 2024 alone.
Dysart et al
- Measured 2019 to 2024, a span of 5 years.
- One year carries most of this: 52% of the whole change happened between 2020 and 2021. A compound rate spreads a step evenly across the span, so the line reads as steady growth where the filing shows a level shift. That is as often a change in what the municipality books to the line as a change in what it spends.
Minden Hills
- Measured 2018 to 2023, a span of 5 years.
Highlands East
- Measured 2019 to 2024, a span of 5 years.
- One year carries most of this: 90% of the whole change happened between 2022 and 2023. A compound rate spreads a step evenly across the span, so the line reads as steady growth where the filing shows a level shift. That is as often a change in what the municipality books to the line as a change in what it spends.
Algonquin Highlands
- Measured 2019 to 2024, a span of 5 years.
- One year carries most of this: 50% of the whole change happened between 2023 and 2024. A compound rate spreads a step evenly across the span, so the line reads as steady growth where the filing shows a level shift. That is as often a change in what the municipality books to the line as a change in what it spends.
Which way is better
Contested. Spending is thrift or neglect depending on what you think a municipality is for. A low figure may be efficiency or a deferred road that costs a later council more. Nothing on this page is ranked, and the bars are ordered by size rather than by merit.
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