2025 at a glance
Adopted budget — all funds
$601,632,607
2025 adopted · all city funds
General Fund adopted budget
$290,544,556
2025 adopted
General Fund fund balance
$64,213,723
At December 31, 2024 · audited (ACFR FY2024)
Total governmental fund balances
$455,667,365
At December 31, 2024 · audited (ACFR FY2024)
Total debt outstanding
$278,545,358
At December 31, 2024 · audited (ACFR FY2024) — all obligation types; bonded debt alone is $19,706,245
Population
147,780
2020 Census, as reported in the ACFR
Sources: 2025 City of Savannah Adopted Budget & Capital Improvement Program and Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, City of Savannah, Georgia, Year Ended December 31, 2024.
Where the money goes — General Fund by service area, 2025 adopted
Shares computed from the document’s figures; may not sum to 100% due to rounding. Source: 2025 City of Savannah Adopted Budget & Capital Improvement Program — “Expenditures by Service Center” table.
2025 adopted expenditures by fund
Source: 2025 City of Savannah Adopted Budget & Capital Improvement Program — “Expenditure Details” table.
About these figures
Savannah budgets and reports on a calendar year. The budget figures are the adopted 2025 budget from the city’s 2025 Adopted Budget & Capital Improvement Program; the fund-balance and debt figures are audited actuals from the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2024.
Of the General Fund’s $64,213,723 fund balance, $59,598,399 is unassigned — 19.9% of General Fund expenditures and transfers out, per the ACFR.
Most of the city’s $278,545,358 in total obligations is not bonded debt: $217,448,000 is contractual obligations securing bonds issued by public authorities (such as the Downtown Savannah Authority and the Savannah Economic Development Authority), alongside notes of $15,943,710 and leases of $30,895,000; general obligation bonds total just $1,605,000.
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Source documents: 2025 City of Savannah Adopted Budget & Capital Improvement Program and Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, City of Savannah, Georgia, Year Ended December 31, 2024.