Community Buildings

Community Buildings are buildings that you can build in CityVille and they are important for raising your population cap.

Community Buildings

Name	Cost	TCO*	Pop Cap	TCO/Cap	Requirement	Staff	Items	Size
City Hall	00000000000000001000 1,000 Coins	3,222	50	64.44	None	3	0	4x4
Post Office	00000000000000001000 1,000 Coins	3,222	50	64.44		5	0	4x4
Police	00000000000000002000 2,000 Coins	4,222	100	42.22		7	0	4x4
Emergency Clinic	00000000000000004000 4,000 Coins	6,222	200	31.11	Level 10	10	0	4x4
Museum	00000000000000008000 8,000 Coins	10,222	300	34.07	Goal	0	5x1	4x4
Library	00000000000000016000 16,000 Coins	18,222	400	45.56	Level 20	10		4x4
Grade School	00000000000000020000 20,000 Coins	22,222	500	44.44	Goal	0	5x3	4x4
Carousel	00000000000000025000 25,000 Coins		700		Goal	0	5x4	3x3
Firehouse	00000000000000030000 30,000 Coins		900		Level 35	0	5x5	6x4
High School	00000000000000035000 35,000 Coins		1,100		Level 40	0	5x6	5x5
Hospital	00000000000000040000 40,000 Coins		1,300		Level 45	0	5x7
Baseball Field	00000000000000050000 50,000 Coins		1,500		Goal	0	5x8	6x6

• Total Cost of Ownership (abbreviated TCO) includes the cost of both the structure and the land it occupies. Since the only way to currently purchase land is through the 12x12 land expansion for 20,000 coins, that makes land worth 138.89 coins per square.

Based on the analysis of TCO/Pop, it appears that the Emergency Clinic provides the best Community building value, at 31.11 coins per population cap increase.

Benefits of Community Buildings

The main purpose of community buildings is to raise your population cap. This allows two things:

• More residential buildings. Residential population is shown always in the lower left of the screen. This number is the key to unlocking many building types in the game.
• More businesses. Each business type requires a certain amount of population, although the exact amount is not shown to the user. If you build too many businesses without community buildings, then you suddenly hit this limit.

In addition to raising the population cap, community buildings also give out cash and energy. Many of the community buildings can be collected from every 24 hours, but it is not known if this is true for all community buildings. The money given from collecting from a community building is usually 250 or 300.

The energy required to collect from a community building is always 1, the same as collecting from anything else in the game. It seems that all community buildings give back either 1 or 2 energy. This makes them far better than residences for collecting, because they always replenish the energy used for collection.