How Bowling Green is run
Bowling Green spent $23.2 million in the year to June 30, 2024, about $19,345 per resident. (A Census Bureau estimate.)
What stands out about how Bowling Green is run
Read from the town’s budget, meetings and records. The page puts what stands out first.
The typical homeowner pays $1,988 a year
Every local property tax on the home: town, schools and county. About 0.59% of the home’s value, vs 0.73% across Virginia.
Typical yearly bill next door and statewide
The Housing page’s calculator splits a monthly payment into loan, tax and insurance at Bowling Green’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.
Caroline County Public Schools
Bowling Green’s K–12 school district, shared with Port Royal. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $13,108 per pupil, $7,224 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.
Virginia districts overall: 49% local, 41% state, 10% federal.
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
Per resident, spending is up 151% since 2022
Spending per resident, by fiscal year. Prices rose too: about 4% a year in 2022–2024.
Spending per resident by year
* A Census Bureau estimate for that year (the town didn’t report most of its figures).
Who’s in charge in Bowling Green
Local officials aren’t in the public records we use for Bowling Green yet. Neighbors can add them.
About $19,345 per resident a year, or $53.00 a day
The biggest line: roads & transportation, at 88% of spending.
Thank you for being a neighbor
Bowling Green didn’t report all of its 2024 figures to the Census Bureau, so most of these numbers are the Bureau’s estimates.
One full-time town employee for every 60 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.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Bowling Green.
- 1Your cityMayor & councilLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2Virginia HouseState representatives
- 3Virginia SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of Virginia
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Bowling Green’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 Bowling Green 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 Bowling Green, 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.