City of Pine Bluff — debt, spend, and structural metrics

Borrowed principal only (bonds + notes + financed purchases). Current expenditures exclude debt service and investment P&L. Population is Census / PEP city limits. Click a year in any chart or table to drill into the source row.

Filters

Population

City limits, not the MSA. Click a point to drill down.

Borrowed principal

City bonds + notes + financed purchases. Not WWU, not absences.

Debt per resident

The shrinking-city ratio. $0 in 1999–2000, $1,000 at the 2018 peak.

Year-over-year debt change

Green = paydown. Brick = new paper or refundings that grew the book.

Current spend by function

Filtered functions, stacked. 2018–20 recreation includes library/aquatic construction.

Spend per resident by function

Same functions, per remaining resident.

Budget share

Each function as % of that year’s current spend (selected functions only still use full-year denominator).

Police + fire rigidity

Combined public-safety dollars vs share of the budget.

Drillable data table

Click a row. CSV downloads the filtered view.

Sources: Arkansas Legislative Audit regulatory-basis reports (Exhibit B + commitments notes) and 1999–2000 city CAFRs. 2003–04 debt is rounded from those audits. Wiki.js embed: host this file and iframe it — page HTML usually strips scripts.