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On the other hand , the other two land use categories are net contributors to local fiscal resources . The revenue/expenditure ratio of 1 . 09 for the fa= sector implies that for every dollar In revenues attributable to farms , the county spends only $ 0 . 92 in services benefiting the farm sector. The commercial/industrial land use category stands out as the sector having the Iowest revenue/expenditure ratios (2 . 13 and 1 . 32 ) , and the one most sensitive to how one treats school and public health expenditures directly attributable to the Latino population . 2 Even when all of these expenditures are allocated to the commercial/industrial sector, the results indicate that the county spends only $ 0 . 76 in services benefiting commercial and industrial establishments for every public dollar generated by those establishments . This figure falls to $ 0 . 47 when Latino - related expenditures are allocated exclusively to the residential sector. Conciusiona The results presented above provide , answers to the two questions � osed at the besdnnin �P of this report . As regards the public services provided by Chatham County , farms more than pay their own way . This is true despite farms being taxed on the basis of their current use ( as opposed to their potential use were they to be transformed into commercial or residential uses ) . In contrast , the value of public services provided to residential Iand uses exceed the tax property and other revenues that they contribute to the county budget . This contradicts claims that are sometimes made that residential development is a boon to county finances due to its expansion of the property tax base . Finally, commercial and industrial land uses -emerge as bein .a the .. largest net contributors to local financial resources — even when public expenditures attributable to the county ' s burgeoning Latino population are allocated to this sector. The main finding of this research , then , is that farm and commercial/industrial land uses subsidize residential land uses in Chatham County. This is consistent with the findings of other Cost of Community Services studies carried out in other communities throucrhout the U. S . However, the degree to which the revenue/expenditure ratios of these various Iand uses differ from one another is much more modest than has been found in most other studies . In other These expenditures ( totaling approximately $ 1 . 5 miIlion ) represent a much larger fraction of commercial/industnal expenditures than of residential expenditures , and therefore affect the ratio of revenues to expenditures much more strongly . 6