Mandatory spending ratio ranking

All municipalities · lowest first · FY2024 (1741)

Personnel costs, social assistance and debt service — spending that is hard to cut — as a share of total spending.

#MunicipalityPrefecturePopulationMandatory spending
601 Sagae City Yamagata 39,417 37.3%
602 Katsuyama City Fukui 21,056 37.4%
603 Awaji City Hyogo 41,364 37.4%
604 Shimonita Town Gunma 6,133 37.4%
605 Minamichita Town Aichi 15,506 37.4%
606 Aki City Kochi 15,555 37.4%
607 Isumi City Chiba 34,705 37.5%
608 Kami Town Hyogo 15,303 37.5%
609 Kumenan Town Okayama 4,290 37.5%
610 Koge Town Fukuoka 7,142 37.5%
611 Kawakami Village Nagano 3,631 37.5%
612 Oga City Akita 23,355 37.5%
613 Yoshida Town Shizuoka 28,964 37.5%
614 Kanegasaki Town Iwate 15,119 37.5%
615 Niikappu Town Hokkaido 5,011 37.6%
616 Kunigami Village Okinawa 4,459 37.6%
617 Taragi Town Kumamoto 8,321 37.6%
618 Shinhidaka Town Hokkaido 20,229 37.6%
619 Tara Town Saga 7,874 37.6%
620 Kushima City Miyazaki 16,047 37.7%
621 Nakagawa Town Tochigi 14,124 37.7%
622 Ureshino City Saga 24,446 37.7%
623 Yuzawa City Akita 39,484 37.7%
624 Mugi Town Tokushima 3,424 37.7%
625 Niimi City Okayama 25,939 37.8%
626 Minamikyushu City Kagoshima 31,457 37.8%
627 Godo Town Gifu 18,210 37.8%
628 Okushiri Town Hokkaido 2,138 37.8%
629 Asagiri Town Kumamoto 14,058 37.9%
630 Yaizu City Shizuoka 135,294 37.9%
631 Tobe Town Ehime 20,190 37.9%
632 Katsuragi Town Wakayama 15,299 38.0%
633 Higashimiyoshi Town Tokushima 13,205 38.0%
634 Yawatahama City Ehime 30,019 38.0%
635 Musashino City Tokyo 148,034 38.0%
636 Yoshino Town Nara 5,834 38.0%
637 Nishiokoppe Village Hokkaido 956 38.0%
638 Nishigo Village Fukushima 20,616 38.0%
639 Takahashi City Okayama 26,020 38.0%
640 Bifuka Town Hokkaido 3,681 38.0%
641 Kihoku Town Ehime 9,108 38.1%
642 Kunneppu Town Hokkaido 4,448 38.1%
643 Moka City Tochigi 78,284 38.1%
644 Tonosho Town Chiba 12,607 38.1%
645 Hikawa Town Kumamoto 10,742 38.1%
646 Kozaki Town Chiba 5,634 38.1%
647 Ashikita Town Kumamoto 14,877 38.1%
648 Echizen Town Fukui 19,769 38.1%
649 Imari City Saga 51,664 38.1%
650 Tahara City Aichi 58,270 38.1%

Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications settlement data. Municipalities without a value (such as the fiscal strength index of Tokyo's special wards) are excluded.