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Gwinnett County Pulse

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The county's money, from the county's own books. Every figure below is taken from Gwinnett County's adopted FY2025 Budget Resolution or its FY2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report — the audited report for the year ended December 31, 2024 — and each section cites the document it came from. Gwinnett's fiscal year is the calendar year, January 1 through December 31.

FY2025 · Adopted

$585,339,778

General Fund appropriations, FY2025 adopted budget

FY2025 · Adopted

$2,667,528,620

All-funds appropriations — operating and capital budgets, FY2025 adopted

FY2024 · Audited

$226,216,000

General Fund fund balance at December 31, 2024

FY2024 · Audited

$783,559,000

Total debt outstanding at December 31, 2024 — revenue bonds, notes, leases & contractual obligations

2024 · Per ACFR

1,003,869

County population — 2024 estimate stated in the FY2024 ACFR (U.S. Census Bureau)

Where the General Fund goes FY2025 Adopted

The ten largest departments and agencies in the General Fund, exactly as appropriated in the FY2025 Budget Resolution Summary. The Sheriff alone accounts for nearly a third of the fund. Shares are computed from the resolution's own figures and rounded to one decimal.

Sheriff $179,652,962

Non-Departmental $80,460,977

Transportation $41,404,644

Judiciary $40,449,669

Community Services Subsidies $35,692,245

Community Services $31,879,764

District Attorney $29,771,110

Corrections $25,375,381

Clerk of Court $23,623,860

Tax Commissioner $21,564,614

All other departments & agencies (11) $75,464,552

General Fund total — FY2025 adopted appropriations $585,339,778

Source: Gwinnett County FY2025 Adopted Budget Resolution (GCID 2025-0040, adopted January 7, 2025), Resolution Summary — General Fund 001. Read the resolution (PDF, gwinnettcounty.com)

The full FY2025 adopted budget FY2025 Adopted

The General Fund is one piece of a $2.67 billion budget. The same resolution appropriates the county's operating funds, its capital funds, and four grant funds:

Operating fundsIncludes the General Fund ($585,339,778), service-district funds such as Fire & EMS and Police Services, enterprise funds such as Water & Sewer ($490,889,583), and internal service funds $2,112,087,004

Capital fundsIncludes the 2023 SPLOST program ($207,793,905) and Water & Sewer Renewal & Extension ($240,455,850); capital budgets are adopted as multi-year project budgets $555,441,616

Total — operating & capital $2,667,528,620

Grant funds appropriated in the same resolutionGeneral Grant Fund $10,446,901 · HUD Grant Funds $22,678,047 · Local Transit Operating Grants $10,374,978 · American Rescue Plan Act Grants $80,074,544 $123,574,470

Source: Gwinnett County FY2025 Adopted Budget Resolution (GCID 2025-0040, adopted January 7, 2025), Resolution Summary — "Total Operating Funds" and "Total Capital Funds" lines and grant fund schedules. Read the resolution (PDF, gwinnettcounty.com)

The audited position at year-end FY2024 ACFR

What the county actually held and owed when fiscal 2024 closed on December 31, 2024, per the audited Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. The ACFR presents its statements in thousands; figures below are stated in full dollars.

Fund balances — December 31, 2024

General Fund — total fund balance$226,216,000

of which unassigned$196,914,000

All governmental funds combined$1,841,491,000

The General Fund balance fell $12,450,000 (5.2%) during 2024, per the ACFR's Management's Discussion and Analysis.

Debt outstanding — December 31, 2024

Revenue bonds$436,070,000

Intergovernmental payable — Development Authority$207,595,000

Subscription payable$57,234,000

Contractual obligations$56,115,000

Notes payable (GEFA)$18,672,000

Lease payable$7,873,000

Total debt outstanding$783,559,000

The county reports no general obligation debt outstanding, and states it has held AAA credit ratings from all three rating agencies since 1997.

Source: Gwinnett County Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2024 — Management's Discussion and Analysis (Financial Highlights; "Gwinnett County's Outstanding Debt" table; Debt Administration). Read the FY2024 ACFR (PDF, gwinnettcounty.com)

About these figures

Two different kinds of numbers appear on this page, and they are not interchangeable. The FY2025 adopted-budget figures come from the Budget Resolution the Board of Commissioners adopted on January 7, 2025 (GCID 2025-0040): they are the county's spending plan — the legal appropriations — for the fiscal year running January 1 to December 31, 2025.

The FY2024 ACFR figures are audited actuals for the fiscal year that ended December 31, 2024: what the General Fund held in reserve and what the county owed at that date, as reported in the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. A budgeted appropriation is a plan; a fund balance is a result. Nothing on this page comes from any source other than these two documents.