Sacramento deserves to know what is in the budget and how it is made.

Open Budget: Sacramento takes current and past budget data published by the City of Sacramento and transforms them into accessible visualizations. Our aim is to enable community members to examine their city's budget for themselves.

We have a suite of data viewing tools to help you understand Sacramento's budget.

Overview

Get a bird's eye view of the big picture for a single year: where money comes from, and where it goes.

Our flow chart shows where the money comes from and where it goes. Are the things you care about underfunded? Find out!

Comparison

Put two budgets head-to-head. How much did the budget grow or shrink? How are cuts and increases distributed across spending categories? How did revenue sources change?

The comparison tool lets you compare two Sacramento city budgets.

Detail

Drill down into detailed spending and revenue data for each department and fund for a single year.

Our drill-down tool lets you examine Oakland city spending and revenue in detail.

Custom Queries

Explore the details of the City of Sacramento's adopted 2018 budget.

the tool used to explore the 2018 budget data