The price of local government in 2017: Village of Bloomingdale

The Village of Bloomingdale budget was $74.94 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $11,048 per household.

That's an increase of 81.5 percent from 2016, when the village spent $41.29 million, or $6,088 per household.

Bloomingdale has 6,783 households and a population of 22,075.

Since 2001, the Village of Bloomingdale budget has grown by 75.2 percent, from $42.77 million. The village population has grown 1.2 percent over the same period, from 21,818.

Salaries accounted for 14.9 percent of village spending in 2017. Bloomingdale property taxpayers paid $11.17 million for 116 full-time employees and 34 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 134 full-time employees and 35 part-time employees, and spent $10.87 million.

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