How Hamlin is run
Hamlin spent $10,000 in the year to December 31, 2022, about $286 per resident. (A Census Bureau estimate.)
What stands out about how Hamlin is run
Read from the town’s budget, meetings and records. The page puts what stands out first.
About $286 per resident a year, or $0.78 a day
The biggest line: parks & libraries, at 20% of spending.
Thank you for being a neighbor
Hamlin didn’t report all of its 2022 figures to the Census Bureau, so most of these numbers are the Bureau’s estimates.
Hiawatha Unified School District 415
Hamlin’s K–12 school district, shared with Fairview, Hiawatha, Hiawatha, Padonia, Reserve and more. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $15,351 per pupil, $9,753 goes to the classroom (teachers, aides, supplies); the rest to buses, buildings, counselors and administration. Building projects and debt payments aren’t in the per-pupil figure.
Kansas districts overall: 28% local, 61% state, 11% federal.
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
Who’s in charge in Hamlin
Local officials aren’t in the public records we use for Hamlin yet. Neighbors can add them.
0 full-time staff
On the payroll in March 2022.
By department full-time, plus part-time
Pay is March payroll times twelve, so it’s approximate. Part-timers count half in the bar lengths.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Hamlin.
- 1Your cityMayor & councilLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2Kansas HouseState representatives
- 3Kansas SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of Kansas
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Hamlin’s government
Numbers and hours come from neighbors and the town’s own site (the Handbook). A new one goes live once two neighbors confirm it.
Questions about how Hamlin is run?
Neighbors who’ve been to the meetings can help.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Budget and staff: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments and Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll (for Hamlin, mostly the Bureau’s estimates). School district: Census school finance survey. Property tax: Census American Community Survey, 5-year estimates. Representatives: Open States, the Census and congress-legislators.