The price of local government in 2017: Village of Villa Park

The Village of Villa Park budget was $57.82 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $9,625 per household.

That's a decrease of 1.4 percent from 2016, when the village spent $58.66 million, or $9,764 per household.

Villa Park has 6,008 households and a population of 21,904.

Since 2001, the Village of Villa Park budget has grown by 47 percent, from $39.35 million. The village population has fallen 0.8 percent over the same period, from 22,075.

Salaries accounted for 21.2 percent of village spending in 2017. Villa Park property taxpayers paid $12.24 million for 139 full-time employees and 100 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 154 full-time employees and 12 part-time employees, and spent $13.17 million.

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