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

The Village of Villa Park budget was $19.60 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $4,860 per household.

That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the village spent $20.18 million, or $5,003 per household.

Villa Park has 4,034 households and a population of 7,700.

Since 2001, the Village of Villa Park budget has grown by 185 percent, from $6.88 million. The village population has grown 16.7 percent over the same period, from 6,600.

Salaries accounted for 8.3 percent of village spending in 2017. Villa Park property taxpayers paid $1.62 million for 20 full-time employees and 21 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 14 full-time employees and 21 part-time employees, and spent $788,398.

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