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Not the full picture. Built from public records, which leave things out.Read by hand, Oct 2026DetailsThis is built from public records, which leave a lot out, and some of it may be wrong or out of date. Check the sources, and tell us if you spot a mistake. What this site can't tell you
Read by hand. We read King's own documents for this site in October 2026; the Sources page lists which ones. The comparisons with other places still come from the Province's yearly reports.

Sources and method

Where this comes from

Everything on these pages comes from public documents. Here they are, with how we used them, so anyone can check our work.

Documents

  1. Ontario Financial Information Return (FIR)

    Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing · retrieved 2026-10-01

    The numbers behind the money and compare pages: 2019 to 2025 for King, and 2025 for 23 similar towns. Figures are what the municipality reported to the Province for each year, prepared on the same basis as its audited financial statements.

  2. Township of King, budget documents

    Township of King · retrieved 2026-10-01

    The town’s published budgets. Used to check its plans against what it reported.

  3. The Corporation of the Township of King, Financial Report and Consolidated Financial Statements, December 31, 2025 (KPMG LLP, June 1, 2026)

    Township of King (auditor: KPMG LLP) · retrieved 2026-10-05

    Audited statements for 2025, with the Treasurer's message and management discussion. Clean opinion dated June 1, 2026. 109 PDF pages; page numbers in this pack are the printed page numbers, which match the PDF pages.

  4. The Corporation of the Township of King, Consolidated Financial Statements, December 31, 2024 (KPMG LLP, May 26, 2025)

    Township of King (auditor: KPMG LLP) · retrieved 2026-10-05

    Audited statements for 2024. Used for the 2024 budget and actual figures.

  5. 2026 Township of King Budget Book (Approved)

    Township of King · retrieved 2026-10-05

    The 2026 budget book, 307 PDF pages, adopted by council on November 24, 2025.

  6. Township of King, Statement of Council Remuneration and Expenses for the year ended December 31, 2023 (Appendix A to FIN-2024-03)

    Township of King · retrieved 2026-10-05

    The newest Municipal Act s. 284 statement the Township posts. The page's text layer is out of line, so we did not copy any member's figures.

  7. Statistics Canada, Consumer Price Index, annual average (table 18-10-0005-01)

    Statistics Canada · retrieved 2026-10-01

    How much prices went up each year, so cost growth can be compared with inflation.

How the numbers are worked out

Day-to-day spending
Total expenses as reported, minus amortization ("wear and tear"), which is an accounting cost rather than cash spent that year. Costs are shown in the service where they were recorded, before the town spreads its office overhead across services, so the cost of running the office stays visible.
Per home
An amount divided by the number of households the town reported to the Province for that year.
Similar towns
Ontario lower-tier municipalities with 60% to 160% of this population that had filed their 2025 return, in 2025. This gives 23 towns. "Typical" means the median: half of similar towns are above it and half below. The size limits are a judgement call; moving them a little adds or drops a few towns, so treat small differences in rank as noise. Per-home figures use the household counts each town reports to the Province. Towns do not all count the same way: some include seasonal homes, so per-home comparisons are a guide, not exact.
Faster than prices
Growth is compared with Canada's Consumer Price Index over the same years.
When a question is raised automatically
When a cost grew at least 25 percentage points faster than prices and faster than 80% of similar towns; when a measure of money health is worse than 80% of similar towns; or when a one-year tax increase is higher than 80% of similar towns and well above inflation. "Needs an answer" means worse than 90% of similar towns. When there are fewer than 20 similar towns, automatic questions go no higher than "Worth asking", because one rank moves a lot in a small group.

What this cannot see

These records show totals by category, not individual payments. They cannot show whether a particular contract was fair, whether a purchase was split to avoid tendering, or who was paid. That needs the town's list of payments (its cheque register or accounts payable list), which residents can ask for under Ontario's freedom-of-information law (MFIPPA). That is the next thing we plan to add.