The price of local government in 2017: Village of Lisle

The Village of Lisle budget was $99.29 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $15,836 per household.

That's a decrease of 0.4 percent from 2016, when the village spent $99.72 million, or $15,904 per household.

Lisle has 6,270 households and a population of 23,440.

Since 2001, the Village of Lisle budget has fallen by 17.1 percent, from $119.80 million. The village population has grown 11.6 percent over the same period, from 21,000.

Salaries accounted for 8.7 percent of village spending in 2017. Lisle property taxpayers paid $8.63 million for 99 full-time employees and 19 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 114 full-time employees and 42 part-time employees, and spent $5.71 million.

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