Macon-Bibb County · Budget year 2027

Budget tracker

Where one dollar of Macon-Bibb’s everyday money goes — and where the rest of the county’s money comes from too. New to this? Start with “What is a budget?” →

Adopted — PlannedJuly 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027. ADOPTED budget. The Commission adopted it unanimously on June 16, 2026, after the June 2 public hearing, with no changes to the Mayor's recommended figures. Actual spending is reported later in the county's annual financial report (ACFR).
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You’re seeing the plan, not the receipts. These are the dollar figures the County Commission adopted for budget year 2027 — what the county intends to spend. After the year ends in June 2027, the county publishes what was actually spent. We’ll show that here too, line by line, so you can tap a category and see the real projects behind the numbers.

Your tax dollar

Here’s where one dollar of Macon-Bibb’s everyday money goes.

Each colored square = one penny of every dollar. Tap a color (or a name below) to see what’s inside.

One way to slice it. Departments are grouped to make this easier to read. Tap any group to see the real departments and dollar figures underneath.

Source: Macon-Bibb County FY2027 Mayor/Commission Budget Worksheet Report (run 2026-05-20), cross-checked against the Budget Book Exhibit A. See it for yourself in the county’s official FY27 Budget Book (General Fund spending detail on pp. 8–16; category summary on p. 5). The budget book lists SP LOST 2025 ($44,000,000) as a fund but excludes it from its own Total Other Funds and Total All Funds. Official county totals shown here match the book; listed_sum figures include every line item.

Year over year

How the budget has changed over the years.

Every year since the city and county merged in 2014, Macon-Bibb has adopted a General Fund budget. Here’s every one we could extract from the published budget books — what it spent, on what. Since FY16, the everyday budget has grown from $147.6M to $221.5M — +$73.8M (50%).

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Fiscal year — adopted General Fund budget. Hover or focus a bar for the breakdown.

About this chart. FY18 and FY19 budget books are scanned PDFs without a text layer; FY18 was recovered with OCR (sum within ~0.5% of the published GF total) and FY19 was pulled cleanly from the FY20 book's prior-year column. FY24 was parsed from the proposed budget book's General Fund Departmental Budget pages — all 52 departments, summing exactly to the published GF total. Every year FY16–FY27 now has a full category breakdown. Category names follow the county's pre-FY24 9-category groupings, which we re-bucket each year into so the trend stays apples-to-apples. Each year's adopted General Fund budget, taken from the county's published budget books and ordinances. Pre-2014 budgets (City of Macon and Bibb County separately) are excluded because the consolidated government started January 2014.