The price of local government in 2017: Village of Lombard

The Village of Lombard budget was $133.49 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $10,403 per household.

That's an increase of percent from 2016, when the village spent $133.42 million, or $10,398 per household.

Lombard has 12,831 households and a population of 43,395.

Since 2001, the Village of Lombard budget has grown by 70.2 percent, from $78.43 million. The village population has grown 2.5 percent over the same period, from 42,322.

Salaries accounted for 16.8 percent of village spending in 2017. Lombard property taxpayers paid $22.48 million for 255 full-time employees and 36 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 266 full-time employees and 49 part-time employees, and spent $22.09 million.

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