LA receipts
Snapshot
About
LA receipts

Follow every dollar in Los Angeles. Built with public data from the City of LA.

Methodology & sources

Budget

  • 2026-27 Budget
  • Past Budgets
  • Revenue

Spending

  • Checkbook
  • Payroll
  • Deep Dives

Issues

  • Homelessness
  • LAHSA X-Ray
  • Housing
  • Path to 30,000
  • Safety
  • 311

Data Sources

  • LA Controller ↗
  • LA Open Data ↗
  • LAHSA ↗

All data sourced from public records under Creative Commons Attribution license.

© 2026 LA Receipts

City appropriations

Where the money goes.

City of Los Angeles budget appropriations — department allocations, treemaps, and multi-year trends sourced from open data.

Drivers

What's driving the budget increase

Treemap

Budget Treemap

Departments

Top 15 Departments by Budget

Trend

Budget Trend