The price of local government in 2017: City of Warrenville

The City of Warrenville budget was $22.93 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $5,153 per household.

That's a decrease of 3.3 percent from 2016, when the city spent $23.72 million, or $5,331 per household.

Warrenville has 4,450 households and a population of 13,140.

Since 2001, the City of Warrenville budget has grown by six percent, from $21.64 million. The city population has fallen 1.7 percent over the same period, from 13,363.

Salaries accounted for 28.9 percent of city spending in 2017. Warrenville property taxpayers paid $6.62 million for 72 full-time employees and 37 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 56 full-time employees and 32 part-time employees, and spent $3.95 million.

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