The price of local government in 2017: Village of Downers Grove

The Village of Downers Grove budget was $81.99 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $4,872 per household.

That's a decrease of 0.8 percent from 2016, when the village spent $82.64 million, or $4,910 per household.

Downers Grove has 16,830 households and a population of 49,473.

Since 2001, the Village of Downers Grove budget has fallen by 12.9 percent, from $94.15 million. The village population has grown 1.5 percent over the same period, from 48,724.

Salaries accounted for 32.6 percent of village spending in 2017. Downers Grove property taxpayers paid $26.75 million for 282 full-time employees and 50 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 369 full-time employees and 130 part-time employees, and spent $27.43 million.

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