Arlington County Budget Archives

FY 2025 Adopted Page

FY 2025 Budget Information

A Guide to the Adopted FY 2025 Budget (English | Español)

FY 2025 Adopted Budget Press Release (4/20/2024)

Highlights

• The County Board adopted a $1.65 billion balance budget for Fiscal Year 2025, a 6.4 percent increase over FY 2024.
• The adopted budget focuses on foundational services for the community, including public safety, housing, behavioral health, environmental sustainability, transportation, and schools.
• The base real estate tax increased 2 cents to $1.033 per $100 of assessed value, which is partially offset by the move to a stormwater utility fee that reduced the tax rate by 1.7 cents.

• The FY 2025 transfer to Arlington Public Schools (APS) from the County is $639.7 million. This is $624.8 million in ongoing funds—an increase of $30.4 million (or 5.1 percent) over FY 2024, and $14.9 million in one-time funding.

FY 2024 Adopted Page

FY 2024 Budget Page

A Guide to the Adopted FY 2024 Budget (English | Español)

FY 2024 Adopted Budget Press Release (Español)

Highlights

• The County Board adopted a $1.55 billion balance budget for Fiscal Year 2024.
• The adopted budget focuses on community needs as the County continues to emerge from the pandemic, including affordable housing, while also providing foundational services, such as public safety, environmental services, transportation, and schools.
• The base real estate tax rate remains unchanged at $1.013 per $100 of assessed value.

• The FY 2024 transfer to Arlington Public Schools (APS) from the County is $608.2 million—46.8 percent of local tax revenues. This funding level is a four percent increase over FY 2023.

FY 2023 Adopted Page

FY 2023 Budget Page

FY 2023 Adopted Budget Press Release

Guide to FY 2023 Adopted Budget(PDF, 136KB)

Highlights

• The County Board adopted a $1.5 billion balanced General Fund budget.
• No increase in the Calendar Year 2022 tax rate. The tax rate remained at $1.013 (including the sanitary district tax) per $100 of assessed real estate value. 
• The FY 2023 budget begins to look beyond the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on employee compensation, the environment, housing, and public safety, among other priorities.
• The County Board provided $584.4 million to Arlington Public Schools, an overall increase of $54.5M compared to FY 2022.
• The budget also includes vehicle tax relief by adjusting the assessment tax ratio to 88 percent of a car’s value and the elimination of the regressive $33 Motor Vehicle Fee for Arlington residents.

FY 2022 Adopted Page

FY 2022 Budget Page

FY 2022 Adopted Budget Press Release

Highlights

• The County Board adopted a $1.4 billion balanced General Fund budget.
• No increase in the Calendar Year 2021 tax rate. The tax rate remained at $1.013 (including the sanitary district tax) per $100 of assessed real estate value. 
• The adopted budget set aside $17.5 million in a COVID-19 contingency fund from the federal American Rescue Plan for vaccine distribution, testing and contact tracing, emergency rental assistance and eviction prevention, emergency service needs and food assistance, personal protective equipment and cleaning, and support for the County's business community.
• The County Board provided $529.9 million to Arlington Public Schools, an overall 1% increase compared to FY 2021.

FY 2021 Adopted Page

FY 2021 Budget Page

FY 2021 Adopted Budget Press Release

Highlights

• Adopted a $1.3 billion balanced General Fund Budget that reflects the novel coronavirus’s impact on County revenues and priorities. 
• The County Board approved a $10.2 million contingent fund that included $2.7 million for housing grants, permanent supportive housing, emergency food assistance, and other emergency needs and $7.5 million to assist small businesses and nonprofits, aid service delivery recovery, provide employee support.  
• No increase in the Calendar Year 2020 tax rate. The tax rate remained at $1.026 (including the sanitary district tax) per $100 of assessed real estate value. 
• The County Board provided $524.6 million to Arlington Public Schools, a slight increase over the FY 2020 ongoing funding level.

FY 2020 Adopted Page

FY 2020 Budget Page

FY 2020 Adopted Budget Press Release

Highlights

FY 2019 Adopted Page

FY 2019 Budget Page

FY 2019 Adopted Budget Press Release

Highlights

• No increase in real estate tax rate. The real estate tax rate will remain at 1.006 per $100 assessed value, the same level as CY 2018 (including stormwater tax).
• The 3.9 percent increase in residential property assessments in 2018 means that although the real estate tax rate will not rise, the average homeowner will see an increase in taxes and fees from $8,446 to $8,742, a $296 or 3.5 percent increase.
• The Board provided $1.6 million more in public safety compensation, citing the need to compete in an increasingly tight labor market to attract and retain police officers, firefighters and sheriff deputies.
• The County Board provided $500.8 million in ongoing funding for Schools, fully funding the School Board’s Proposed Budget.

FY 2018 Adopted Page

FY 2018 Budget Page

FY 2018 Adopted Budget Press Release

Highlights

• Adopted a $1.25 billion balanced budget. 
• 1.5-cent property tax rate increase dedicated to Metro, Schools
• The tax rate increased from the current $0.991 per $100 of assessed value to $1.006 per $100 of assessed value (including stormwater tax).  
• $23.3 million increase for Schools over the FY 2017 budget, to $490.3 million

FY 2017 Adopted Budget

FY 2017 Budget Page

FY 2017 Adopted Budget Press Release

Highlights

• Tax rate will decrease by a half cent, from $.996 per $100 of assessed value (including the sanitary district tax) to $0.991 per $100 of assessed value for calendar year 2016.
• Overall residential real estate assessment average increases by 2.8 percent. The average homeowner will see their tax and fee burden rise 2.5 percent from the previous year. That translates to an average of $16 a month or $189 a year.
• Additional funding included for Economic Development Incentives, Public Safety, Affordable Housing, and Employee Compensation.
• The County Board provided $464.5 million in ongoing funding and $2.5 million in one-time funding for Schools, a 3.3 percent increase from FY 2016.