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Saturday, April 20, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Villa Park

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The Village of Villa Park budget was $41.35 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $6,918.71 per household.

That's a decrease of 1.8 percent from 2014, when the village spent $42.09 million, or $7,043.74 per household.

Villa Park has 5,976 households and a population of 21,904.

Since 2001, the Village of Villa Park budget has grown by 8.9 percent, from $37.96 million. The village population has fallen 0.8 percent over the same period, from 22,075.

Salaries accounted for 26.5 percent of village spending in 2015. Villa Park property taxpayers paid $10.96 million for 129 full-time employees and 104 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 154 full-time employees and 12 part-time employees, and spent $12.71 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
21,904
$41,346,235.50
$10,961,506.50
26.5
233
$47,045.09
2014
21,904
$42,093,419.94
$12,547,159.24
29.8
174
$72,110.11
2013
21,904
$40,409,791.76
$12,520,184.56
31
252
$49,683.27
2012
21,904
$51,078,936.56
$12,445,432.44
24.4
177
$70,313.17
2011
21,904
$52,296,161.76
$12,852,444.96
24.6
289
$44,472.12
2010
22,517
$52,340,168.55
$13,595,873.85
26
307
$44,286.23
2009
22,517
$53,101,789.42
$14,597,793.13
27.5
297
$49,150.81
2008
22,517
$42,784,745.91
$13,886,714.64
32.5
288
$48,217.75
2007
22,517
$40,778,649.99
$13,643,971.38
33.5
405
$33,688.81
2006
22,517
$41,196,566.40
$13,953,843.60
33.9
338
$41,283.56
2005
22,517
$38,288,972.96
$13,403,245.56
35
491
$27,297.85
2004
22,517
$39,621,147.72
$13,423,863.84
33.9
262
$51,236.12
2003
22,075
$42,474,078.24
$13,402,703.16
31.6
166
$80,739.17
2002
22,075
$40,129,435.80
$13,303,566.90
33.2
166
$80,141.96
2001
22,075
$37,963,495.97
$12,710,894.25
33.5
166
$76,571.65

All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.

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