Departments in the City's annual budget

Department of Finance Updated May 8, 2026 As needed

About this dataset

Additional information about departments in the City's annual budget. Use this to supplement the Operating budget dataset.

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File name	Download actions	File Format	File size
Departments hierarchy	Download Copy URL	CSV

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Data Dictionary

Data dictionary - field definitions for this dataset
field	description	possible_values
dept_group	City of San Diego branch. Departments are grouped into branches.	Finance, Infrastructure, Internal Operations, Major Revenues, Neighborhood Services, Non-Mayoral, Other, Public Safety
dept_name	Department name
dept_division	Department division
dept_section	Section within a department division
funds_center	Represents the lowest level of organizational detail within a department and can represent a team, function, or facility within a department. Department group, name, division, and section represent groupings of funds centers.
funds_center_number	Unique identifier for a funds center

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