This Alameda, California, bond comes due on December 1, 2014. All of the ones in this list mature between 2012 and 2033. Price is the amount the bond sold for at the end of the previous trading day, given as a percentage of par. Change is the difference between the price quoted here and the previous day's closing price. It is quoted as a percentage of par value, just as corporate bonds are.
Yield is the rate of return.
It includes the interest, the amount you paid for the bond, its redemption value, and the time remaining until it matures. Each week The Wall Street Journal prints a Municipal Bond Index of the average interest issuers would have to pay to sell investment quality long-term bonds. Specific figures are given for the two main categories of municipal bonds. Revenue bonds are backed by the revenues a specific project or agency generates. New York State Thruway revenue bonds, for example, are repaid by the money paid for tolls.