The price of local government in 2017: Village of Clarendon Hills

The Village of Clarendon Hills budget was $26.11 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $8,987 per household.

That's an increase of 77.3 percent from 2016, when the village spent $14.73 million, or $5,069 per household.

Clarendon Hills has 2,905 households and a population of 8,427.

Since 2001, the Village of Clarendon Hills budget has grown by 108.1 percent, from $12.54 million. The village population has grown 10.7 percent over the same period, from 7,610.

Salaries accounted for 24.2 percent of village spending in 2017. Clarendon Hills property taxpayers paid $6.31 million for 36 full-time employees and 62 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 34 full-time employees and 54 part-time employees, and spent $3 million.

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