City Comparison
This view is for fair benchmarking, not leaderboard theater. The comparison badge reflects whether the cities are actually similar enough for a strong side-by-side read.
Reasonable comparison
This is directionally useful, but structural and data-coverage differences still matter.
Newport Beach scores 0 points higher than Aliso Viejo primarily because it shows better source transparency, lower vendor concentration risk, leaner spending allocation.
Newport Beach leads by 56 points on transparency.
Aliso Viejo leads by 44 points on vendor risk.
Aliso Viejo leads by 29 points on spending efficiency.
Newport Beach
66
/100
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Confidence: High
Reserves are trending upward
Newport Beach shows an improving reserve direction versus recent years.
Vendor concentration is elevated
29.6% of tracked payments flow to the top vendor, which is above the peer median.
Consulting spend is rising faster than staffing
Outside services growth leads staffing by 13.1 points.
Aliso Viejo
66
/100
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Confidence: Limited
Some evidence is still low-confidence
0 source documents still need review, which limits precision.
Budget growth remains near peer range
5.0% year-over-year growth is not a major outlier within the peer set.
Default metrics favor per-resident or share-of-budget framing over raw dollars.
| Metric | Newport Beach | Aliso Viejo |
|---|---|---|
| GovMatrix score | 66/100 | 66/100 |
| Administrative overhead | 0.0% | 18.6% |
| Top vendor share | 29.6% | 16.8% |
| Budget growth YoY | 6.6% | 5.0% |
| Budget per resident | $5,254 | $2,692 |
| Confidence | High | Limited |
These six pillars make the overall score explainable instead of mystical.
Financial Stability
Newport Beach 70 • Aliso Viejo 71
Newport Beach: Improving reserves and 6.6% budget growth shape this pillar.
Aliso Viejo: Stable reserves and 5.0% budget growth shape this pillar.
Spending Efficiency
Newport Beach 66 • Aliso Viejo 95
Newport Beach: 0.0% administrative overhead and consulting growth drive this score.
Aliso Viejo: 18.6% administrative overhead and consulting growth drive this score.
Transparency
Newport Beach 87 • Aliso Viejo 31
Newport Beach: 3/4 documents are parsed into the current dataset.
Aliso Viejo: 0/1 documents are parsed into the current dataset.
Vendor Risk
Newport Beach 50 • Aliso Viejo 94
Newport Beach: 29.6% top-vendor share and 1 no-bid contracts affect this pillar.
Aliso Viejo: 16.8% top-vendor share and 0 no-bid contracts affect this pillar.
Trend / Anomaly
Newport Beach 61 • Aliso Viejo 82
Newport Beach: Contracted Services is the biggest growth area at 16.1%.
Aliso Viejo: Technology Programs is the biggest growth area at 11.4%.
Public Burden
Newport Beach 57 • Aliso Viejo 83
Newport Beach: $5,254 per resident frames the current adopted budget.
Aliso Viejo: $2,692 per resident frames the current adopted budget.
This chart highlights whether the overall budget trend and outside-services growth are moving together.
Newport Beach
3 machine-readable documents and 1 evidence-linked findings back this score.
Aliso Viejo
Limited source coverage means the score is heavily compressed toward neutral and should be treated as directional.