How Olmos Park is run
Olmos Park spent $5.1 million in the year to September 30, 2022, about $2,061 per resident. (A Census Bureau estimate.)
What stands out about how Olmos Park is run
Read from the town’s budget, meetings and records. The page puts what stands out first.
About $2,061 per resident a year, or $5.65 a day
The biggest line: fire, at 24% of spending.
Thank you for being a neighbor
Revenue is well above spending. That usually means Olmos Park collects property taxes for the school district and county and passes them on, so only its own spending is counted.
Olmos Park didn’t report all of its 2022 figures to the Census Bureau, so most of these numbers are the Bureau’s estimates.
Alamo Heights Independent School District
Olmos Park’s K–12 school district, shared with Alamo Heights, Terrell Hills. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $12,920 per pupil, $8,257 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.
Texas districts overall: 51% local, 36% state, 13% federal.
San Antonio Independent School District · $15,140 per pupil
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
One full-time town employee for every 65 residents
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.
Who’s in charge in Olmos Park
Local officials aren’t in the public records we use for Olmos Park yet. Neighbors can add them.
Typical bills top $10,000 a year
Every local property tax on the home: town, schools and county.
Typical yearly bill next door and statewide
The Housing page’s calculator splits a monthly payment into loan, tax and insurance at Olmos Park’s rate.
Can I afford it? →The median bill homeowners report to the Census survey (bills of $10,000+ are reported as “$10,000+”). The effective rate is that bill ÷ the median home value: a rough guide, not the official tax rate. In a town this small the estimate has a wide margin.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Olmos Park.
- 1Your cityMayor & councilLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2Texas HouseState representatives
- 3Texas SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of Texas
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Olmos Park’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 Olmos Park 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 Olmos Park, 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.