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County Commons · the network

Every county, one platform

County Commons is opening county by county — now live in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. You're already inside: a PIN for any one county is a key to all of them, so you can walk any county's budget, questions, and calendar from here. Same rules everywhere: every number cited to its source, no verdicts, direct participation alongside the republic.

Live now — budgets ingested, itemized, and re-added to the dollar

Scottsdale ✓ live Arizona

Scottsdale (city in Maricopa County) · 241,361 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Garland County ✓ live Arkansas

Hot Springs · 100,180 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Hot Spring County ✓ live Arkansas

Malvern · 33,040 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Clark County ✓ live Arkansas

Arkadelphia · 21,446 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

San Francisco ✓ live California

San Francisco (consolidated city-county) · 873,965 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Denver ✓ live Colorado

Denver (consolidated city-county) · 715,522 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Fort Collins ✓ live Colorado

Fort Collins (home-rule city in Larimer County) · 169,810 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Fairfield County ✓ live Connecticut

No county seat — county government abolished in 1960 · 957,419 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Palm Beach County ✓ live Florida

West Palm Beach · 1,492,191 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Brevard County ✓ live Florida

Titusville (government center in Viera) · 658,447 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Melbourne Beach ✓ live Florida

Melbourne Beach (a town in Brevard County) · 3,231 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Kalawao County ✓ live Hawaii

Kalaupapa (no county seat — administered by the state) · 82 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Middlesex County ✓ live Massachusetts

No county seat — county government abolished 1997 (Cambridge and Lowell were the historic shire towns) · 1,632,002 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Guilford County ✓ live North Carolina

Greensboro · 541,299 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Cary ✓ live North Carolina

Cary (town in Wake County) · 174,721 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Nashville-Davidson ✓ live Tennessee

Nashville (consolidated metro government) · 715,884 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Travis County ✓ live Texas

Austin · 1,290,188 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Smith County ✓ live Texas

Tyler · 233,479 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Bastrop County ✓ live Texas

Bastrop · 97,216 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Loving County ✓ live Texas

Mentone · 64 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Arlington County ✓ live Virginia

Arlington (county-manager government; no incorporated towns) · 238,643 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Richmond ✓ live Virginia

Richmond (independent city — belongs to no county) · 226,610 residents · budget ingested and navigable →

Compare the Arkansas counties side by side, per resident: how counties spend.

The rest of Arkansas — gated starter sites, ready for a local host

Each county below already has its own site behind its own PIN — a place for its budget to be ingested and its questions to open. A starter site is standing and waiting for someone local to run it; that's exactly what this project is for. Want yours? Bring your county on.

CountySeatResidents (2020)
Arkansas County◐ starter site DeWitt / Stuttgart 17,149
Ashley County◐ starter site Hamburg 19,062
Baxter County◐ starter site Mountain Home 41,627
Benton County◐ starter site Bentonville 284,333
Boone County◐ starter site Harrison 37,373
Bradley County◐ starter site Warren 10,545
Calhoun County◐ starter site Hampton 4,739
Carroll County◐ starter site Berryville / Eureka Springs 28,260
Chicot County◐ starter site Lake Village 10,208
Clay County◐ starter site Piggott / Corning 14,552
Cleburne County◐ starter site Heber Springs 24,711
Cleveland County◐ starter site Rison 7,550
Columbia County◐ starter site Magnolia 22,801
Conway County◐ starter site Morrilton 20,715
Craighead County◐ starter site Jonesboro / Lake City 111,231
Crawford County◐ starter site Van Buren 60,133
Crittenden County◐ starter site Marion 48,163
Cross County◐ starter site Wynne 16,833
Dallas County◐ starter site Fordyce 6,482
Desha County◐ starter site Arkansas City 11,395
Drew County◐ starter site Monticello 17,350
Faulkner County◐ starter site Conway 123,498
Franklin County◐ starter site Ozark / Charleston 17,097
Fulton County◐ starter site Salem 12,075
Grant County◐ starter site Sheridan 17,958
Greene County◐ starter site Paragould 45,736
Hempstead County◐ starter site Hope 20,065
Howard County◐ starter site Nashville 12,785
Independence County◐ starter site Batesville 37,938
Izard County◐ starter site Melbourne 13,577
Jackson County◐ starter site Newport 16,755
Jefferson County◐ starter site Pine Bluff 67,260
Johnson County◐ starter site Clarksville 25,749
Lafayette County◐ starter site Lewisville 6,308
Lawrence County◐ starter site Walnut Ridge 16,216
Lee County◐ starter site Marianna 8,600
Lincoln County◐ starter site Star City 12,941
Little River County◐ starter site Ashdown 12,026
Logan County◐ starter site Paris / Booneville 21,131
Lonoke County◐ starter site Lonoke 74,015
Madison County◐ starter site Huntsville 16,521
Marion County◐ starter site Yellville 16,826
Miller County◐ starter site Texarkana 42,600
Mississippi County◐ starter site Blytheville / Osceola 40,685
Monroe County◐ starter site Clarendon 6,799
Montgomery County◐ starter site Mount Ida 8,484
Nevada County◐ starter site Prescott 8,310
Newton County◐ starter site Jasper 7,225
Ouachita County◐ starter site Camden 22,650
Perry County◐ starter site Perryville 10,019
Phillips County◐ starter site Helena-West Helena 16,568
Pike County◐ starter site Murfreesboro 10,171
Poinsett County◐ starter site Harrisburg 22,965
Polk County◐ starter site Mena 19,221
Pope County◐ starter site Russellville 63,381
Prairie County◐ starter site Des Arc / De Valls Bluff 8,282
Pulaski County◐ starter site Little Rock 399,125
Randolph County◐ starter site Pocahontas 18,571
Saline County◐ starter site Benton 123,416
Scott County◐ starter site Waldron 9,836
Searcy County◐ starter site Marshall 7,828
Sebastian County◐ starter site Fort Smith / Greenwood 127,799
Sevier County◐ starter site De Queen 15,839
Sharp County◐ starter site Ash Flat 17,271
St. Francis County◐ starter site Forrest City 23,090
Stone County◐ starter site Mountain View 12,359
Union County◐ starter site El Dorado 39,054
Van Buren County◐ starter site Clinton 15,796
Washington County◐ starter site Fayetteville 245,871
White County◐ starter site Searcy 76,822
Woodruff County◐ starter site Augusta 6,269
Yell County◐ starter site Danville / Dardanelle 20,263

75 counties · population is the 2020 U.S. Census.