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 1 points higher than Cypress primarily because it shows better source transparency, lower vendor concentration risk, lighter public burden.
Newport Beach leads by 56 points on transparency.
Cypress leads by 40 points on vendor risk.
Cypress leads by 36 points on public burden.
Newport Beach
66
/100
Watchlist
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.
Cypress
65
/100
Watchlist
Confidence: Limited
Reserve trend is moving the wrong way
Reserve direction is declining, which reduces buffer room if revenue slows.
Consulting spend is rising faster than staffing
Outside services growth leads staffing by 7.3 points.
Some evidence is still low-confidence
0 source documents still need review, which limits precision.
Default metrics favor per-resident or share-of-budget framing over raw dollars.
| Metric | Newport Beach | Cypress |
|---|---|---|
| GovMatrix score | 66/100 | 65/100 |
| Administrative overhead | 0.0% | 24.7% |
| Top vendor share | 29.6% | 19.6% |
| Budget growth YoY | 6.6% | 5.9% |
| Budget per resident | $5,254 | $2,833 |
| Confidence | High | Limited |
These six pillars make the overall score explainable instead of mystical.
Financial Stability
Newport Beach 70 • Cypress 68
Newport Beach: Improving reserves and 6.6% budget growth shape this pillar.
Cypress: Declining reserves and 5.9% budget growth shape this pillar.
Spending Efficiency
Newport Beach 66 • Cypress 86
Newport Beach: 0.0% administrative overhead and consulting growth drive this score.
Cypress: 24.7% administrative overhead and consulting growth drive this score.
Transparency
Newport Beach 87 • Cypress 31
Newport Beach: 3/4 documents are parsed into the current dataset.
Cypress: 0/1 documents are parsed into the current dataset.
Vendor Risk
Newport Beach 50 • Cypress 90
Newport Beach: 29.6% top-vendor share and 1 no-bid contracts affect this pillar.
Cypress: 19.6% top-vendor share and 0 no-bid contracts affect this pillar.
Trend / Anomaly
Newport Beach 61 • Cypress 82
Newport Beach: Contracted Services is the biggest growth area at 16.1%.
Cypress: Professional Services is the biggest growth area at 13.1%.
Public Burden
Newport Beach 57 • Cypress 93
Newport Beach: $5,254 per resident frames the current adopted budget.
Cypress: $2,833 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.
Cypress
Limited source coverage means the score is heavily compressed toward neutral and should be treated as directional.