The price of local government in 2017: Village of Glen Ellyn

The Village of Glen Ellyn budget was $76.58 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $9,501 per household.

That's an increase of 0.1 percent from 2016, when the village spent $76.53 million, or $9,494 per household.

Glen Ellyn has 8,061 households and a population of 28,042.

Since 2001, the Village of Glen Ellyn budget has grown by 16.3 percent, from $65.82 million. The village population has grown 3.9 percent over the same period, from 26,999.

Salaries accounted for 15.6 percent of village spending in 2017. Glen Ellyn property taxpayers paid $11.98 million for 107 full-time employees and 127 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 114 full-time employees and 62 part-time employees, and spent $10.41 million.

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