City parks: operating spending by city U.S. 2016

This statistic shows the cities with the highest operating spending per resident on parks and recreation in the United States in 2016. Irvine's operating spending on parks and recreation was 215 U.S. dollars per resident in 2016.

Cities with the highest operating spending per resident on parks and recreation in the United States in 2016 (in U.S. dollars)*

Characteristic	Operating spending per resident U.S. dollars
Irvine	215
Arlington, Virginia	205
Seattle	204
San Francisco	196
Minneapolis	190
Washington, D.C.	169
St. Paul	165
Portland	158
Cincinnati	142
Virginia Beach	141
Chicago	139
St. Petersburg	134
Long Beach	134
Boise	126
Henderson	124

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April 2017

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United States

Survey time period

2016

Supplementary notes

* Operational spending relates to year-in-year-out work such as landscape and tree maintenance, facility maintenance, trash removal, recreational programming, planning, administration, policing, lighting, marketing, etc. Capital expenditure is not included. If a city had more than one agency, their expenditures were combined.
** Estimate based on previous year's figures.
Cities taken into consideration were the 100 most populous cities in the U.S.
Figures have been rounded.

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