This page adds up every authority's most recent published year. That mixing is the main caveat, not a footnote: Braddan's row is budget estimates, not audited outturn, so the total result excludes it; years range from 2021-22 (Ramsey, Michael, whose second source PDF is missing or corrupted) to 2024-25 (Douglas, Port Erin, Bride, Garff); and Douglas's and Onchan's rows are General Fund only — each also runs a Housing Revenue Account, self-funded by rents, excluded here exactly as it is on their own pages. Treat the totals below as a reasonable snapshot of scale, not a single audited consolidated account — the Isle of Man's 21 local authorities don't produce one themselves, which is part of why this page exists.
"Result for the year" for Douglas and Onchan is each authority's published "Net deficit/(surplus) on provision of services" (the operating result), not the statutory total — which for both is dominated by non-cash fixed-asset revaluation and pension remeasurement and would swamp every other authority's genuine trading result if included at face value.
Add up the other twenty and Douglas is still nearly their equal — 48.9% of all rate income raised, 48.7% of all borrowing, 49.8% of all net assets. No other authority comes close: Ramsey, the next-largest, is under a tenth of Douglas's scale on every measure.
Excluding Douglas entirely, the other 20 authorities together raise £16,103,442 in rate income, carry £95,662,506 in borrowing, and hold £291,651,491 in net assets — themselves larger, combined, than most small-country local-government sectors, before Douglas is even added back in.
| Tier | Authorities | Rate income | Borrowing | Net assets | Avg. rate income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town | 4 | £21,405,117 | £142,466,746 | £440,490,456 | £5,351,279 |
| District | 2 | £3,059,454 | £15,081,307 | £66,792,274 | £1,529,727 |
| Village | 2 | £1,649,136 | £9,700,645 | £47,237,370 | £824,568 |
| Parish | 13 | £5,371,735 | £19,376,808 | £27,016,391 | £413,210 |
| All 21 | 21 | £31,485,442 | £186,625,506 | £581,536,491 | £1,499,307 |
Town includes Douglas, which alone accounts for £15.38m of the Town tier's £21.4m rate income — strip Douglas out and the remaining three Towns (Ramsey, Peel, Castletown) average £2.01m each, still well above every District, Village or Parish average. The Village tier's high net-asset average (£23.6m each) comes mostly from Port Erin's harbour and housing stock, not from Port St Mary matching it.
Twenty-one separate authorities still lean on four shared regional boards for the services too small to run alone: refuse collection, civic amenity sites and swimming pools, mostly. Three authorities don't just pay in, they host and recover costs from their neighbours — a genuine piece of inter-authority infrastructure hiding inside twenty-one sets of accounts that otherwise look completely independent of each other.
Santon (Southern + Eastern) and Michael (Western + Northern) are each confirmed on two clusters simultaneously. See benchmarking.html for every authority's individual joint-board line, sourced from each authority's own published accounts.
What these totals are not. Not an audited consolidated account — the Department of Infrastructure lays 21 separate Statements of Accounts before Tynwald each year, not one combined set, so nothing here has been through a single audit. Not same-year — Ramsey's and Michael's rows are 2022-23 because a 2023-24 source PDF was either missing from the public archive (Ramsey) or corrupted beyond recovery (Michael); Braddan's row is 2023-24 budget estimates, not outturn. Not full-authority for Douglas and Onchan, whose Housing Revenue Accounts are excluded exactly as on their own pages. Treat this as a snapshot of scale built from the same verified figures as every other page on this site, not a substitute for Tynwald's own published totals.