Demographics

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Socioeconomic Information
Category Value
County Plymouth
School Structure
No data
Form of Government
Open Town Meeting
2010 Population
14,489
2011 Labor Force
8,303
2011 Unemployment
8%
2009 DOR Income Per Capita
$25,245
2009 Housing Units per square mile
733.33
2011 Road Miles
54.37
EQV Per Capita (2010 EQV / 2010 Population)
102,924
2012 Number of Registered Vehicles
12,693
2012 Number of Registered Voters
9,584

Bond Ratings
Type Rating
Moody's Bond Ratings as of December 2012
Aa3
Standard and Poor's Bond Ratings as of December 2012
AA-

Fiscal Year 2013 Estimated Cherry Sheet Aid
Type
Amount
Education Aid
$118,716
General Government
$2,216,484
Total Receipts
$2,335,200
Total Assessments
$174,877
Net State Aid
$2,160,323

Fiscal Year 2013 Tax Classification
Tax Classification
Assessed Values
Tax Levy
Tax Rate
Residential $1,145,950,220 $18,094,554
15.79%
Open Space
$0 $0 0
Commercial $80,310,603 $1,268,104 15.79%
Industrial $19,604,296 $309,552 15.79%
Personal Property
$30,170,259 $476,388 15.79%
Total $1,276,035,378 $20,148,598

Fiscal Year 2013 Revenue by Source
Revenue Source
Amount Percent of Total
Tax Levy
$20,148,599 62.69%
State Aid
$2,335,200 7.27%
Local Receipts
$7,218,689 22.46%
Other Available
$2,436,523 7.58%
Total $32,139,011

Fiscal Year 2013 Proposition 2 1/2 Levy Capacity
Category Value
New Growth
$88,026
Override $440,160
Debt Exclusion
$1,152,211
Levy Limit
$20,153,412
Excess Capacity
$4,814
Ceiling $31,900,884
Override Capacity
$12,899,683

Other Available Funds
Type Amount
Free Cash as of July 1, 2012
$1,791,075
Fiscal Year 2012 Stabilization Fund
$2,514,768
Fiscal Year 2013 Overlay Reserve
$156,752

Fiscal Year 2013 Average Single Family Tax Bill*
Category Value
Number of Single Family Parcels
3,303
Assessed Value of Single Family
$256,735
Average Single Family Tax Bill
$4,054

*Whitman issues tax bills on a quarterly basis. For the communities granting the residential exemptions, DLS does not collect enough information to calculate an average single family tax bill. In fiscal year 2013, those communities are Barnstable, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Nantucket, Somerville, Somerset, Tisbury, Waltham, and Watertown. Therefore, the average single family tax bill information in this report will be blank.

State Average Single Family Tax Bill
Year Average
Fiscal Year 2011 $4,537
Fiscal Year 2012 $4,711
Fiscal Year 2013 $4,875

Fiscal Year 2012 Schedule A - Actual Revenues & Expenditures
Category
General Fund Special Revenue Capital Projects Enterprise Funds Trust Revenue Total All Funds
Revenues $25,998,320 $908,046 $400,911 $4,376,971 $50,843 $31,735,091
Expenditures $24,536,791 $190,685 $1,761,793 $2,964,423 $11,771 $29,465,463
Police $2,681,304 $0 $0 $0 $0 $2,681,304
Fire $2,510,628 $0 $0 $0 $0 $2,510,628
Education $11,012,949

$0 $0 $11,012,949
Public Works $1,906,894 $0 $393,023 $2,964,423 $0 $5,264,340
Debt Service $1,147,817



$1,147,817
Health Ins $1,206,694



$1,206,694
Pension $1,320,014



$1,320,014
All Other $2,750,491 $190,685 $1,368,770 $0 $11,771 $4,321,717

Total Revenues & Expenditures Per Capita
Category
General Fund
Special Revenue
Capital Projects
Enterprise Funds
Trust Revenue
Total of All Funds
Revenues 1,794.3 62.7 27.7 302.1 3.5 2,190.3
Expenditures 1693.5 13.2 121.6 204.6 .8
2,033.6

This data only represents the revenues and expenditures occurring in these funds and does not reflect transfers to or from other funds. Therefore, this data should not be used to calculate an ending fund balance.

Questions
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