The price of local government in 2017: Village of Willowbrook

The Village of Willowbrook budget was $39.70 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $11,923 per household.

That's an increase of 9.5 percent from 2016, when the village spent $36.27 million, or $10,891 per household.

Willowbrook has 3,330 households and a population of 8,540.

Since 2001, the Village of Willowbrook budget has grown by 92.7 percent, from $20.61 million. The village population has fallen 4.8 percent over the same period, from 8,967.

Salaries accounted for 9.7 percent of village spending in 2017. Willowbrook property taxpayers paid $3.84 million for 38 full-time employees and eight part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 42 full-time employees and eight part-time employees, and spent $3.42 million.

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