West Chester Township is committed to honest budgeting, sensible spending and financial transparency. With this in mind, West Chester Township partners with OpenGov to offer Data Informed Government (DIG), a platform affording residents and stakeholders easy access to financial data.

West Chester Township welcomes transparency and encourages residents and corporate stakeholders to explore and become better informed of how tax dollars are put to work in your community.

*West Chester financial transaction data is uploaded to its DIG portal on a daily basis. Budget data is updated monthly.

Featured Topics

Featured topics offer users a starting point when exploring information available on the DIG portal. Once in the portal, users can change the views, request reports and search for more specific information on a variety of other topics.

Exploring 

The DIG platform makes exploring West Chester's budget and historical finances easy. Here are a few tips.

• Start by visiting the West Chester Checkbook default opening page.
• The title of the chart or graph you are viewing is at the top of the page along with the account type selector. You can use the filters to see the data that is of most interest to you.
• To focus on specific data – like fund, department, expense type, or any combination – look to the left and use the menu on the side panel. These selectors allow you to specify exactly what you want the graph or table to represent. When you select “Filtered By” the data filter pops up and allows you to turn on or turn off selected filters for that category – funds, departments, expense type.
• There are five different types of visual representations of the data – an area graph, an area graph by percentage, a line graph, a pie graph, and a table. You can change your view by type at any point by simply selecting the different type of representation. The data will automatically convert. These functions are found on the top right.
• You can also download the data into a .csv spreadsheet and .png image.