Finance Decoder

Visualize your city’s financial trajectory.

Understand whether your city is on track to keep its development, service, and growth promises.

Recommended by national municipal finance institutions.

Get the Finance Decoder

Years of Budgeting, Clarified in an Afternoon.

Input a handful of your city's publicly-available financial numbers and automatically produce 7 indicator charts to visualize the financial trajectory of your place.

The fiscal health of our cities isn’t shaped by a single budget or council vote—it’s the result of decades of decisions, policies, and development patterns. Across the country, Strong Towns advocates are using the Finance Decoder to better understand their communities’ fiscal trajectories.