Town of Hempstead Budget: Every Line Item, 2022–2026

America's largest town (~790,000 residents). Every fund, every department and every one of the budget lines from five official Adopted Budget books — lined up side by side, color-coded, and checked to the dollar.

✓ Double-checked: every department's lines add to its printed total, every fund adds to the printed fund total — checks, 0 mismatches

Source: Town of Hempstead Adopted Budget books 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025 · 2026 (Office of the Town Comptroller). All figures are adopted budgets, not actual spending.

Where every dollar goes, year by year

Town-run spending with internal charge-backs removed (so nothing is counted twice). Bar length = size of the budget.

Color key

5-year change:+25% or more+10% to +25%0% to +10%Cut / reducedNEW line

Pay and benefits are pulled out of every department and shown in blue, orange and purple. The other colors are each department's non-payroll costs (contracts, fuel, utilities, equipment, disposal fees, etc.).

Biggest 5-year line-item jumps (2022 → 2026)

The six single budget lines that grew by the most dollars.

The full ledger

Click any row with ▸ to open it. Every dollar column lines up straight down the page.

Line	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026	5-yr $	5-yr %	Trend

How we checked: all five books were parsed twice (the Town's published text and a fresh re-extraction from the official PDFs) and both passes matched every department total to the cent. General Fund, Part-Town and Highway fund totals match the printed fund summaries; tax levies match the printed Property Tax Data page. "—" means the line was not in that year's book. Account codes changed in 2024 (4-digit to 6-digit chart of accounts); lines are matched across years by department and line name.

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