The price of local government: Village of Villa Park

The Village of Villa Park budget was $41.35 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $6,918.71 per household.

That's a decrease of 1.8 percent from 2014, when the village spent $42.09 million, or $7,043.74 per household.

Villa Park has 5,976 households and a population of 21,904.

Since 2001, the Village of Villa Park budget has grown by 8.9 percent, from $37.96 million. The village population has fallen 0.8 percent over the same period, from 22,075.

Salaries accounted for 26.5 percent of village spending in 2015. Villa Park property taxpayers paid $10.96 million for 129 full-time employees and 104 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 154 full-time employees and 12 part-time employees, and spent $12.71 million.

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