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 4 points higher than Laguna Niguel primarily because it shows better source transparency, lighter public burden, lower vendor concentration risk.
Newport Beach leads by 56 points on transparency.
Laguna Niguel leads by 36 points on public burden.
Laguna Niguel leads by 23 points on vendor risk.
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.
Laguna Niguel
62
/100
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Confidence: Limited
Vendor concentration is elevated
25.2% 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 10.5 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 | Laguna Niguel |
|---|---|---|
| GovMatrix score | 66/100 | 62/100 |
| Administrative overhead | 0.0% | 24.7% |
| Top vendor share | 29.6% | 25.2% |
| Budget growth YoY | 6.6% | 6.8% |
| Budget per resident | $5,254 | $2,263 |
| Confidence | High | Limited |
These six pillars make the overall score explainable instead of mystical.
Financial Stability
Newport Beach 70 • Laguna Niguel 72
Newport Beach: Improving reserves and 6.6% budget growth shape this pillar.
Laguna Niguel: Stable reserves and 6.8% budget growth shape this pillar.
Spending Efficiency
Newport Beach 66 • Laguna Niguel 80
Newport Beach: 0.0% administrative overhead and consulting growth drive this score.
Laguna Niguel: 24.7% administrative overhead and consulting growth drive this score.
Transparency
Newport Beach 87 • Laguna Niguel 31
Newport Beach: 3/4 documents are parsed into the current dataset.
Laguna Niguel: 0/1 documents are parsed into the current dataset.
Vendor Risk
Newport Beach 50 • Laguna Niguel 73
Newport Beach: 29.6% top-vendor share and 1 no-bid contracts affect this pillar.
Laguna Niguel: 25.2% top-vendor share and 0 no-bid contracts affect this pillar.
Trend / Anomaly
Newport Beach 61 • Laguna Niguel 74
Newport Beach: Contracted Services is the biggest growth area at 16.1%.
Laguna Niguel: Public Safety is the biggest growth area at 14.8%.
Public Burden
Newport Beach 57 • Laguna Niguel 93
Newport Beach: $5,254 per resident frames the current adopted budget.
Laguna Niguel: $2,263 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.
Laguna Niguel
Limited source coverage means the score is heavily compressed toward neutral and should be treated as directional.