What's inside your city's wallet —
at a glance.
How much tax does each Japanese municipality collect, and what does it spend it on? How much debt and how much in reserves? We turn the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' settlement data into per-resident amounts compared with similar-sized municipalities.
Browse by prefecture
Each prefecture page shows the prefecture's own finances and a table of all its municipalities.
Rankings (FY2024)
All rankings →Highest fiscal strength index
- Tobishima Village (Aichi) 1.99
- Rokkasho Village (Aomori) 1.68
- Takahama Town (Fukui) 1.65
- Karuizawa Town (Nagano) 1.60
- Okuma Town (Fukushima) 1.59
Highest current balance ratio (least flexibility)
- Meiwa Town (Gunma) 129.8%
- Shinchi Town (Fukushima) 127.4%
- Yubari City (Hokkaido) 125.6%
- Mishima Town (Fukushima) 109.0%
- Kama City (Fukuoka) 105.8%
Most debt per resident
- Toshima Village (Kagoshima) ¥9,530,648
- Oto Town (Fukuoka) ¥7,805,634
- Mishima Village (Kagoshima) ¥7,403,009
- Okawa Village (Kochi) ¥6,187,146
- Hinoemata Village (Fukushima) ¥5,604,388
Most hometown tax donations
- Takarazuka City (Hyogo) ¥25.7B
- Shiranuka Town (Hokkaido) ¥21.2B
- Izumisano City (Osaka) ¥18.2B
- Miyakonojo City (Miyazaki) ¥17.7B
- Betsukai Town (Hokkaido) ¥17.4B
What you can see
Revenue and spending
Taxes, national transfers and borrowing; and spending on welfare, education, public works and more — per resident.
Debt and reserves
Local bonds outstanding and reserve funds per resident, with ten-year trends.
Fiscal health
Fiscal strength index, current balance ratio, real debt service ratio and future burden ratio, ranked nationally and within the prefecture.
Comparison with peers
Each municipality is compared with the median of municipalities of the same type and similar population.
Japan's national budget and tax revenue since 1979: National budget →