Los Angeles City Budget And Expenditure Details Since 2012

Financial records detail budgeted amounts, transfers, and actual expenses for the City of Los Angeles. Data covers budget fiscal years starting from 2012 and is published by the Los Angeles City Controller's Office. The dataset includes departmental and fund-level breakdowns of appropriations and spending.

Use Cases

• Analyze departmental spending trends over time using DEPARTMENT NAME and BUDGET FISCAL YEAR against ACTUAL EXPENSE.
• Track budget adjustments and reallocations by examining BUDGET TRANSFER IN AMOUNT and BUDGET TRANSFER OUT AMOUNT per FUND.
• Compare planned versus actual expenditures by joining ADOPTED BUDGET AMOUNT with TOTAL EXPENDITURES for a given ACCOUNT GROUP NAME.
• Monitor fund-level financial health by calculating BUDGET UNCOMMITTED AMOUNT relative to TOTAL BUDGET within each FUND NAME.

Strengths

• Contains 15 detailed financial columns for granular analysis.
• Provides multi-year coverage starting from budget fiscal year 2012.

Limitations

• Sample data and total row count are unavailable, preventing assessment of dataset size.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single city (Los Angeles).

Provenance

Source

controllerdata.lacity.org

Time Range

Budget fiscal years from 2012 onward

Freshness

Data was last updated on April 3, 2026.

Geography

City of Los Angeles, California, USA