The price of local government in 2017: City of Oakbrook Terrace

The City of Oakbrook Terrace budget was $10.35 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $16,119 per household.

That's a decrease of 38 percent from 2016, when the city spent $16.68 million, or $25,987 per household.

Oakbrook Terrace has 642 households and a population of 2,134.

Since 2001, the City of Oakbrook Terrace budget has grown by 18 percent, from $8.77 million. The city population has fallen 7.2 percent over the same period, from 2,300.

Salaries accounted for 32.2 percent of city spending in 2017. Oakbrook Terrace property taxpayers paid $3.33 million for 38 full-time employees and 10 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 36 full-time employees and 10 part-time employees, and spent $2.77 million.

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