The price of local government in 2017: Village of Winfield

The Village of Winfield budget was $17.03 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $7,973 per household.

That's an increase of 1.3 percent from 2016, when the village spent $16.80 million, or $7,867 per household.

Winfield has 2,136 households and a population of 9,820.

Since 2001, the Village of Winfield budget has grown by 82.7 percent, from $9.32 million. The village population has grown 13.9 percent over the same period, from 8,625.

Salaries accounted for 17.8 percent of village spending in 2017. Winfield property taxpayers paid $3.03 million for 33 full-time employees and three part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 32 full-time employees and 12 part-time employees, and spent $2.55 million.

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