County revenues from fines, forfeitures and court fees as a percentage of own source revenues [Jan. 17, 2013]

County

Georgia Department of Community Affairs Office of Research

2011 County Revenues from Fines, Forfeitures and Court Fees as a Percentage of Own Source Revenues

2011 Population

Revenues From Fines, Fees and
Forfeitures

Per Capita Revenues From Fines, Fees and
Forfeitures

Own Source Revenues

Fines, Fees and Forfeitures as % of
Own Source

Population Group A ( 100,000 and Above)

1 Athens-Clarke

117,344

2 Augusta/Richmond

201,217

3 Bartow

100,421

4 Bibb

156,433

5 Carroll

111,159

6 Cherokee

218,286

7 Cobb

697,553

8 Columbia

128,112

9 Columbus/Muscogee 194,107

10 Coweta

129,629

11 DeKalb

699,893

12 Douglas

133,355

13 Fayette

107,784

14 Forsyth

181,840

15 Fulton

949,599

16 Gwinnett

824,941

17 Hall

183,052

18 Henry

207,360

19 Houston

143,925

20 Lowndes

111,885

21 Newton

100,814

22 Paulding

143,542

23 Whitfield

103,184

Group Averages

8,044,675 6,839,488 2,121,834 5,184,956 1,364,569 6,274,467 16,809,639 3,605,555 7,482,043 5,442,681 38,945,033 6,719,833 5,871,445 4,836,170 19,717,651 27,225,324 5,542,856 5,936,729 4,480,676 3,497,218 2,501,051 1,758,320 3,535,278 8,423,369

68.56 33.99 21.13 33.14 12.28 28.74 24.10 28.14 38.55 41.99 55.64 50.39 54.47 26.60 20.76 33.00 30.28 28.63 31.13 31.26 24.81 12.25 34.26 32.59

150,161,766 217,753,070
79,850,170 90,097,996 54,866,964 132,131,925 605,908,236 95,335,034 236,984,338 86,476,298 946,276,661 101,215,776 60,249,435 159,615,370 589,266,034 694,029,443 128,274,936 159,802,988 74,933,012 51,667,979 61,478,609 80,174,478 45,768,976 213,144,326

5.4% 3.1% 2.7% 5.8% 2.5% 4.7% 2.8% 3.8% 3.2% 6.3% 4.1% 6.6% 9.7% 3.0% 3.3% 3.9% 4.3% 3.7% 6.0% 6.8% 4.1% 2.2% 7.7% 4.0%

Population Group B ( 50,000 - 99,999)

1 Barrow

69,912

2 Bulloch

72,881

3 Camden

50,410

4 Catoosa

64,530

5 Dougherty

94,788

6 Floyd

95,989

7 Glynn

80,386

8 Gordon

55,621

9 Jackson

61,257

10 Liberty

65,451

1,849,296 2,778,394 2,536,460 1,981,663 3,900,013 2,493,699 2,503,855 1,743,048 1,698,414 1,869,768

26.45 38.12 50.32 30.71 41.14 25.98 31.15 31.34 27.73 28.57

41,841,052 44,206,511 37,096,668 31,066,008 54,818,921 70,289,816 85,706,718 38,472,449 48,803,229 38,660,650

4.4% 6.3% 6.8% 6.4% 7.1% 3.5% 2.9% 4.5% 3.5% 4.8%

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Georgia Department of Community Affairs Office of Research

2011 County Revenues from Fines, Forfeitures and Court Fees as a Percentage of Own Source Revenues

2011 Population

Revenues From Fines, Fees and
Forfeitures

Per Capita Revenues From Fines, Fees and
Forfeitures

Own Source Revenues

Fines, Fees and Forfeitures as % of
Own Source

Population Group B ( 50,000 - 99,999)

11 Rockdale

85,765

12 Spalding

64,033

13 Troup

67,764

14 Walker

68,848

15 Walton

84,580

Group Averages

3,191,916 2,328,096 2,283,659 1,695,793 2,876,745 2,382,055

37.22 36.36 33.70 24.63 34.01 33.02

58,733,626 47,854,320 48,501,344 29,555,048 57,305,246 48,860,774

5.4% 4.9% 4.7% 5.7% 5.0% 4.9%

Population Group C ( 25,000 - 49,999)

1 Baldwin

44,417

2 Bryan

31,377

3 Coffee

42,864

4 Colquitt

45,645

5 Gilmer

28,324

6 Grady

25,255

7 Habersham

43,279

8 Haralson

28,638

9 Harris

32,265

10 Hart

25,305

11 Jones

28,516

12 Laurens

47,949

13 Lee

28,575

14 Lumpkin

30,031

15 Madison

27,921

16 Monroe

26,625

17 Oconee

33,366

18 Peach

27,823

19 Pickens

29,415

20 Polk

41,211

21 Stephens

25,960

22 Sumter

32,511

23 Tattnall

25,688

24 Thomas

44,702

25 Tift

41,461

26 Toombs

27,434

27 Ware

36,474

28 Wayne

30,327

1,189,501 1,506,983 1,749,842 1,117,184
885,263 802,062 1,220,568 985,239 956,683 609,090 632,081 2,996,909 859,028 607,605 816,962 1,795,485 918,274 491,088 2,037,377 1,150,148 489,525 740,303 507,101 1,263,876 3,601,787
0 1,249,798
763,913

26.78 48.03 40.82 24.48 31.25 31.76 28.20 34.40 29.65 24.07 22.17 62.50 30.06 20.23 29.26 67.44 27.52 17.65 69.26 27.91 18.86 22.77 19.74 28.27 86.87 0.00 34.27 25.19

27,048,049 25,529,882 21,235,637 25,532,235 21,218,320 14,354,178 22,366,443 17,148,456 17,196,002 13,296,707 18,216,377 31,345,384 25,476,658 20,279,201 15,240,441 29,815,215 27,540,962 18,764,984 23,930,663 22,123,837 14,476,887 19,026,079 12,518,524 28,857,960 34,389,577 17,785,735 26,181,957 22,553,254

4.4% 5.9% 8.2% 4.4% 4.2% 5.6% 5.5% 5.7% 5.6% 4.6% 3.5% 9.6% 3.4% 3.0% 5.4% 6.0% 3.3% 2.6% 8.5% 5.2% 3.4% 3.9% 4.1% 4.4% 10.5% 0.0% 4.8% 3.4%

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Georgia Department of Community Affairs Office of Research

2011 County Revenues from Fines, Forfeitures and Court Fees as a Percentage of Own Source Revenues

2011 Population

Revenues From Fines, Fees and
Forfeitures

Per Capita Revenues From Fines, Fees and
Forfeitures

Own Source Revenues

Fines, Fees and Forfeitures as % of
Own Source

Population Group C ( 25,000 - 49,999) Group Averages

1,140,846

34.22

21,908,914

5.2%

Population Group D ( 15,000 - 24,999)

1 Appling

18,420

2 Banks

18,251

3 Brantley

18,367

4 Brooks

15,889

5 Burke

23,504

6 Butts

23,504

7 Cook

17,125

8 Crisp

23,710

9 Dade

16,570

10 Dawson

22,459

11 Dodge

21,894

12 Elbert

19,886

13 Emanuel

22,567

14 Fannin

23,708

15 Franklin

21,864

16 Greene

16,031

17 Jeff Davis

15,162

18 Jefferson

16,675

19 Lamar

18,194

20 Long

15,136

21 McDuffie

21,673

22 Meriwether

21,617

23 Pierce

18,770

24 Pike

17,751

25 Putnam

21,345

26 Rabun

16,274

27 Telfair

16,057

28 Union

21,134

29 Washington

21,111

30 Worth

21,921

Group Averages

686,704 530,970 1,045,700 315,761 566,318 1,631,258 800,600 1,910,572 553,063 1,015,699
53,913 764,026 589,635 677,336 2,149,105 1,000,681 776,360 561,266 686,097 445,504 490,057 677,381 315,745 491,069 1,065,622 503,785 414,458 760,004 667,190 543,838 756,324

37.28 29.09 56.93 19.87 24.09 69.40 46.75 80.58 33.38 45.22 2.46 38.42 26.13 28.57 98.29 62.42 51.20 33.66 37.71 29.43 22.61 31.34 16.82 27.66 49.92 30.96 25.81 35.96 31.60 24.81 38.68

18,254,558 13,623,930 13,918,185
8,414,083 29,589,954 24,703,247
9,609,625 17,213,521 10,173,920 28,883,242 10,509,141 13,049,494 12,853,532 17,112,199 15,729,416 17,771,935
9,607,592 11,049,815
9,568,010 7,073,075 15,955,536 13,891,584 8,558,132 9,821,513 19,069,099 20,713,583 6,531,127 16,793,951 13,440,126 11,969,973 14,515,103

3.8% 3.9% 7.5% 3.8% 1.9% 6.6% 8.3% 11.1% 5.4% 3.5% 0.5% 5.9% 4.6% 4.0% 13.7% 5.6% 8.1% 5.1% 7.2% 6.3% 3.1% 4.9% 3.7% 5.0% 5.6% 2.4% 6.3% 4.5% 5.0% 4.5% 5.2%

Population Group E ( 10,000 - 14,999)

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Georgia Department of Community Affairs Office of Research

2011 County Revenues from Fines, Forfeitures and Court Fees as a Percentage of Own Source Revenues

2011 Population

Revenues From Fines, Fees and
Forfeitures

Per Capita Revenues From Fines, Fees and
Forfeitures

Own Source Revenues

Fines, Fees and Forfeitures as % of
Own Source

Population Group E ( 10,000 - 14,999)

1 Bacon

11,203

2 Bleckley

13,290

3 Candler

11,276

4 Charlton

13,422

5 Crawford

12,567

6 Cusseta-Chattahooch

11,749

7 Early

10,778

8 Evans

11,065

9 Heard

11,744

10 Jasper

13,885

11 Lanier

10,404

12 Macon

14,405

13 McIntosh

14,170

14 Oglethorpe

14,686

15 Pulaski

11,735

16 Screven

14,367

17 Towns

10,611

Group Averages

210,146 301,979 395,958 244,700 294,623 419,759
0 388,013 406,966 153,951 243,567
93,769 1,536,601
612,567 267,203 331,723 345,623 367,479

18.76 22.72 35.12 18.23 23.44 35.73 0.00 35.07 34.65 11.09 23.41 6.51 108.44 41.71 22.77 23.09 32.57 29.56

6,288,360 6,657,188 7,143,978 14,232,403 7,199,744 4,640,694 8,532,944 6,863,038 15,716,596 2,237,679 4,259,728 6,164,185 13,389,062 7,612,951 6,720,396 10,743,607 11,363,200 8,221,515

3.3% 4.5% 5.5% 1.7% 4.1% 9.0% 0.0% 5.7% 2.6% 6.9% 5.7% 1.5% 11.5% 8.0% 4.0% 3.1% 3.0% 4.5%

Population Group F ( Less than 10,000)

1 Atkinson

8,413

2 Calhoun

6,740

3 Clay

3,111

4 Clinch

6,777

5 Echols

4,129

6 Georgetown-Quitma

2,464

7 Glascock

3,084

8 Hancock

9,400

9 Johnson

9,975

10 Marion

8,746

11 Montgomery

9,065

12 Randolph

7,558

13 Seminole

8,791

14 Stewart

5,910

15 Talbot

6,751

16 Taylor

8,499

129,507 69,806
202,710 109,693 171,295
84,661 101,166 204,499 235,463 201,295
14,197 174,479 267,025 135,621 218,882 257,211

15.39 10.36 65.16 16.19 41.49 34.36 32.80 21.76 23.61 23.02 1.57 23.09 30.37 22.95 32.42 30.26

4,362,574 3,396,406 3,434,085 4,830,305 2,553,660 2,513,749 1,883,415 11,000,237 4,696,431 3,968,341 4,666,398 5,226,330 7,338,996 3,367,479 6,117,985 5,068,517

3.0% 2.1% 5.9% 2.3% 6.7% 3.4% 5.4% 1.9% 5.0% 5.1% 0.3% 3.3% 3.6% 4.0% 3.6% 5.1%

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Georgia Department of Community Affairs Office of Research

2011 County Revenues from Fines, Forfeitures and Court Fees as a Percentage of Own Source Revenues

2011 Population

Revenues From Fines, Fees and
Forfeitures

Per Capita Revenues From Fines, Fees and
Forfeitures

Own Source Revenues

Fines, Fees and Forfeitures as % of
Own Source

Population Group F ( Less than 10,000)

17 Terrell

9,319

18 Treutlen

6,825

19 Turner

8,875

20 Twiggs

8,779

21 Warren

5,721

22 Webster Unified

2,791

23 Wheeler

7,939

24 Wilkinson

9,444

Group Averages

220,828 89,321
2,847,319 824,416 83,317 218,247 168,528 291,139 305,026

23.70 13.09 320.82 93.91 14.56 78.20 21.23 30.83 43.29

6,839,769 2,664,321 9,631,101 7,787,102 4,397,661 2,227,839 3,287,064 8,929,021 5,007,866

3.2% 3.4% 29.6% 10.6% 1.9% 9.8% 5.1% 3.3% 6.1%

Source: DCA, Annual Report of Local Government Finances

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