The price of local government in 2017: Village of Westmont

The Village of Westmont budget was $70.22 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $10,842 per household.

That's an increase of 7.3 percent from 2016, when the village spent $65.45 million, or $10,105 per household.

Westmont has 6,477 households and a population of 24,685.

Since 2001, the Village of Westmont budget has grown by 59.3 percent, from $44.09 million. The village population has grown 0.5 percent over the same period, from 24,554.

Salaries accounted for 17.1 percent of village spending in 2017. Westmont property taxpayers paid $11.98 million for 97 full-time employees and 91 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 120 full-time employees and 98 part-time employees, and spent $10.89 million.

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