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 San Clemente primarily because it shows better source transparency, lighter public burden, leaner spending allocation.
Newport Beach leads by 56 points on transparency.
San Clemente leads by 34 points on public burden.
San Clemente leads by 28 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.
San Clemente
66
/100
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Confidence: Limited
Reserves are trending upward
San Clemente shows an improving reserve direction versus recent years.
Some evidence is still low-confidence
0 source documents still need review, which limits precision.
Budget growth remains near peer range
4.1% 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 | San Clemente |
|---|---|---|
| GovMatrix score | 66/100 | 66/100 |
| Administrative overhead | 0.0% | 16.0% |
| Top vendor share | 29.6% | 14.0% |
| Budget growth YoY | 6.6% | 4.1% |
| Budget per resident | $5,254 | $2,108 |
| Confidence | High | Limited |
These six pillars make the overall score explainable instead of mystical.
Financial Stability
Newport Beach 70 • San Clemente 79
Newport Beach: Improving reserves and 6.6% budget growth shape this pillar.
San Clemente: Improving reserves and 4.1% budget growth shape this pillar.
Spending Efficiency
Newport Beach 66 • San Clemente 94
Newport Beach: 0.0% administrative overhead and consulting growth drive this score.
San Clemente: 16.0% administrative overhead and consulting growth drive this score.
Transparency
Newport Beach 87 • San Clemente 31
Newport Beach: 3/4 documents are parsed into the current dataset.
San Clemente: 0/1 documents are parsed into the current dataset.
Vendor Risk
Newport Beach 50 • San Clemente 78
Newport Beach: 29.6% top-vendor share and 1 no-bid contracts affect this pillar.
San Clemente: 14.0% top-vendor share and 1 no-bid contracts affect this pillar.
Trend / Anomaly
Newport Beach 61 • San Clemente 85
Newport Beach: Contracted Services is the biggest growth area at 16.1%.
San Clemente: Community Services is the biggest growth area at 9.7%.
Public Burden
Newport Beach 57 • San Clemente 91
Newport Beach: $5,254 per resident frames the current adopted budget.
San Clemente: $2,107 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.
San Clemente
Limited source coverage means the score is heavily compressed toward neutral and should be treated as directional.