Mandatory spending ratio ranking

Tokyo special wards · lowest first · FY2024 (23)

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

#MunicipalityPrefecturePopulationMandatory spending
1 Minato City Tokyo 267,780 31.1%
2 Chuo City Tokyo 187,404 31.9%
3 Chiyoda City Tokyo 68,835 35.1%
4 Shibuya City Tokyo 231,402 38.2%
5 Shinagawa City Tokyo 412,786 39.6%
6 Bunkyo City Tokyo 235,345 41.0%
7 Koto City Tokyo 541,685 44.1%
8 Nakano City Tokyo 341,322 44.8%
9 Meguro City Tokyo 281,400 45.4%
10 Sumida City Tokyo 287,302 48.3%
11 Edogawa City Tokyo 693,570 48.7%
12 Kita City Tokyo 362,089 48.7%
13 Toshima City Tokyo 294,644 48.7%
14 Shinjuku City Tokyo 352,717 48.9%
15 Ota City Tokyo 740,519 49.0%
16 Katsushika City Tokyo 469,916 49.3%
17 Taito City Tokyo 216,084 49.9%
18 Arakawa City Tokyo 222,278 50.0%
19 Setagaya City Tokyo 923,210 50.4%
20 Suginami City Tokyo 577,147 50.9%
21 Adachi City Tokyo 698,276 51.5%
22 Itabashi City Tokyo 578,914 51.8%
23 Nerima City Tokyo 745,927 54.5%

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.