Citywide

Adopted budget, all departments

Adopted totalProposed (FY2017–19)$ millions

Source: Open Budget Oakland adopted-budget CSVs. 10 facts, 2 metrics, 2014–2023. Citywide totals as charted; the per-department lines they are built from are in the CSV. CSV

No independent anchor exists for this series: No second publisher of the same aggregate; the check is internal (it is by construction the sum of the departmental series).. No independent anchor exists for this series: No second publisher and no adopted counterpart for these years..

Proposed-budget totals exist in the corpus only for FY2018 and FY2019, which Open Budget Oakland published as proposed budgets with no adopted equivalent; all other years shown are adopted figures.

Why other years’ proposed budgets are not extracted: machine-readable budget data comes from Open Budget Oakland CSVs (adopted FY2014–2023; FY2018–19 proposed only), and the city’s other proposed budgets exist only as PDF budget books. The corpus holds 153 budget-classified PDFs, 11 of them pre-2012 books recovered from the Wayback Machine, but their summary tables span roughly 15 years of layout changes and a deterministic table extractor for them has not been built. Only the FY2011–13 proposed budget book’s General-Fund-only summary (FY2012 figures) has been parsed (metrics budget.book.proposed.*, in the CSV).

Audited expenses by function (government-wide)

Public safetyPublic worksGeneral governmentCommunity servicesCommunity & economic developmentInterest on long-term debt$ millions

Bar height = total governmental-activities expenses (each year's extracted functions sum to the printed ACFR total within 1%).

Community services moves $182,920K to $106,941K in FY2025 (−41.5%, −$76.0M). The FY2025 ACFR (record 3909) states the cause in its Management’s Discussion and Analysis, printed p. 12: “reduced personnel spending, discretionary spending reductions, and deferral of certain costs including contracts, as part of actions taken to address the City’s budget deficits”.

Cause not established: general government (−11.7%, −$34.5M), community economic development (+57.4%, +$90.3M) in FY2025. The ACFR’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis offers no explanation for these lines, and the explanations above do not apply to them.

Source: Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports (ACFR), Statement of Activities. 168 facts, 7 metrics, 2002–2025. CSV

General revenues (ACFR), all extracted lines

Property taxBusiness license taxSales taxReal estate transfer taxVoter-approved special taxesOtherAll other revenue lines$ millions

The 10 smallest series are charted as one segment, “All other revenue lines”: Local taxes (aggregate), Utility consumption tax, Interest & investment income, Transient occupancy tax, State taxes (aggregate), Parking tax, Franchise fees, Gas tax, Licenses & permits, Motor vehicle in-lieu — together 23.2% of the total magnitude charted. Each is published as its own line and is listed separately in the coverage CSV linked below.

Every general-revenue line of the ACFR Statement of Activities, governmental-activities column; bar height approximates the printed “Total general revenues” (transfers excluded; each year's extracted lines plus transfers match the printed total within 1%). The FY2003–2006 statements print state and local taxes only as aggregates (the aggregate segments); detailed lines begin FY2007, and a licenses-and-permits line appears only in FY2007–08. FY2002 yields property tax only, and the FY1998–2001 CAFRs predate this statement format, so nothing is extractable there. Bond proceeds are financing sources, not revenues, and outstanding debt is reported on the ACFR Statement of Net Position — neither appears in general revenues.

Property tax moves $548,087K to $477,300K in FY2025 (−12.9%, −$70.8M). The FY2025 ACFR (record 3909) states the cause in its Management’s Discussion and Analysis, printed p. 12: “property taxes decreased by $70.8 million, or 12.9 percent, due to a lower PFRS liability rate, reflecting reduced property tax levy requirements to fund the City’s PFRS obligations”. The transmittal letter (printed p. iii) adds that “property tax collections decreased, but it was due to a reduction in the portion of the tax rate dedicated to pension obligations, rather than a decline in underlying economic value.” Assessed values continued to rise. The ACFR’s Schedule 2 (printed p. 161) prints the same two figures, and its Schedule 5 (printed p. 164) shows the same fall on a fund basis.

Real estate transfer tax moves $57,613K to $93,220K in FY2025 (+61.8%, +$35.6M). The FY2025 ACFR (record 3909) states the cause in its Schedule 5 note: “the purchase of the Oakland headquarters building by PG&E in June 2025”.

Interest and investment income: FY2021 is $18 thousand, between $24.1M in FY2020 and −$12.8M in FY2022. That figure was verified against the source before being left on the page: the FY2021 ACFR's Statement of Activities prints “Interest and investment income (loss) 18” in the governmental-activities column (and (41) for business-type activities, a (23) primary-government total). It is the published figure, not an extraction error. The line is negative in FY2022 (−$12.8M), so it is not a quantity that can only be positive. Rounded to millions for the chart, FY2021 renders as 0.0.

Source: ACFRs. 272 facts, 16 metrics, 2002–2025. CSV

Payroll

Wages excluding overtimeOvertime$ millions

Bar height = total wages (the source's TotalWages column includes overtime, so overtime is stacked on wages-excluding-overtime). The Controller's 2020 and 2023 files contain no Port of Oakland cost centers (25 in 2020, 26 in 2023 reporting units vs 80–90 in other years), so those totals cover city departments only. Total wages rose $119.5M from 2023 to 2024 ($555.2M → $674.7M); Port cost centers resuming reporting account for $83.1M of that, and wages at city departments rose $36.5M.

Employeesemployees

Employee counts for 2020 and 2023 exclude the Port of Oakland (absent from the source files for those years).

Source: California State Controller, Government Compensation in California. 30 facts, 3 metrics, 2015–2024. Citywide totals as charted, the Port of Oakland included; the per-department series are in the CSV. CSV

State Controller payroll figures are calendar-year (January–December) totals. The budget and ACFR figures elsewhere on this page are July–June fiscal years labeled by their end year, so the two are on different bases and the years are not comparable.

Employees by department

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Police services agency	1,880	1,742	1,564	1,453	1,491	1,447	1,331	1,363	1,310	1,239
Parks and rec	1,006	1,034	1,018	1,054	821	758	560	695	767	744
Public works	857	894	718	665	703	688	663	693	726	703
Fire department	640	678	649	623	648	628	650	682	687	671
Library	406	388	394	402	494	422	404	443	410	425
Department of transportation			255	328	368	354	382	388	387	391
Health and human services	211	278	219	235	250	234	199	225	238	239
Finance	148	158	157	163	195	205	174	166	170	192
Planning building neighborhood preservation	159	178	172	212	213	192	196	194	188	185
Housing community development	61	62	55	65	79	87	72	81	89	92
City attorney	90	84	92	93	96	97	91	100	99	89
Information technology	83	94	81	82	90	85	82	84	79	89
Aging senior aides	163	164	118	75	88	82	68	83	97	84
City administrator	151	134	104	111	117	136	104	70	81	71
Human resources	51	58	46	53	55	52	54	61	65	64
Department of violence prevention			1	1	2	19	26	43	56	62
Economic workforce development	58	71	56	53	63	52	60	56	62	61
City council	55	57	53	65	75	51	71	52	61	50
Animal services										41
Museum	19	1					37	46	40
Police commission			11	13	18	20	19	26	35	35
Administrative support compliance						15	16	18	18	24
Mayor	27	21	26	18	18	13	17	16	21	20
Public Ethics Commission		9	7	6	8	7	8	10	12	16
City clerk	19	27	22	22	21	19	18	17	17	15
City auditor	20	15	17	11	12	10	12	12	11	12
Ktop	9
Race and equity		2	2	2	4	3	3	5	5	6
Comm develop agency	1

Employee rows reported per department in the State Controller data (a person paid in two departments appears in both). Reporting-unit labels that are renames or spelling variants of one department (e.g. “Housing Development” → “Housing & Community Development”, the misspelled “City Admininstrator”) are counted as one department here. Port of Oakland cost centers are on the Port page.

Where one department reports under two or three labels in the same year's file, the cell is their sum: City administrator in 2016 (131 + 3 = 134); Public Ethics Commission in 2016 (6 + 2 + 1 = 9). The 2016 file carries the City Administrator's office both as the misspelled “City Admininstrator” and, for three positions, under the correct spelling; it likewise splits the Public Ethics Commission across “Public Ethics”, “Public Ethics Commission” and one position labeled with its job title, “Deputy Dir Public Ethics Comm”. The Offices & Internal Services page lists those same figures one row per source label.

Source: California State Controller, Government Compensation in California. 248 facts, 36 metrics, 2015–2024. Per-department employee counts as tabled. CSV

Population

Each point is a Census ACS 5-year estimate — the period is a multi-year span, plotted at its end year. Consecutive estimates share most of their sample years, so year-to-year differences are mostly overlap and can even have the wrong sign; estimates carry margins of error not shown here.

Totalpeople

By race

BlackWhiteAsianHispanicpeople

Source: Census ACS 5-year estimates. 1,064 facts, 76 metrics, 2010–2023. CSV

Equity Indicators

Oakland's Equity Indicators: 72 measures of how outcomes differ by race, council district and police area, published together by the Department of Race and Equity.

All 72 were published on 1 October 2018 against 2016–2017 data and none has been updated since. They are a baseline, not a series. Units differ per indicator — rates, shares, counts and medians sit side by side — so two indicators are not comparable without checking both.