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Database: How much money your city receives

Ohio

Gannett Ohio and The Cincinnati Enquirer researched what money your hometown is receiving from property tax, sales tax, local government fund and other revenue sources. Despite complaints, most cities and counties are weathering the cuts to revenue. Villages and townships were hit harder. Search this database to see how your area fared.

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*Tangible personal property tax and utilities tax are shared by counties with the hometowns within their borders.

*Data displayed is the most recent available.

*For cities whose borders cross multiple counties, Local Government Fund revenue should be added together.

Sources: Ohio Department of Taxation, state auditor, Office of Budget and Management, Enquirer/Gannett Ohio research. Notes would be:

How we did it:

Gannett Ohio and The Cincinnati Enquirer compiled several sets of revenue and expense data from the Ohio auditor, the state taxation department and the Office of Budget and Management.

In most cases, the most recent statewide data available was from 2012, and some of the cuts didn't take full effect until 2013. But the data available indicate communities' trajectories toward prosperity or struggle.

Some data was missing for the occasional hometown. (The largest set of missing data is for townships, which are not required to report the balance in their rainy-day funds to the state.)

Here and there, the data available showed wildly different changes in numbers from year to year, likely because of the occasional error in reports from local governments or in data entry by state employees. When analyzing the data, we often eliminated these outliers, such as changes in revenue of greater than 80 percent.