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The price of local government in 2017: Locust Township

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The Locust Township budget was $558,484 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 12.2 percent from 2016, when the township spent $497,544.

Locust Township has a population of 660.

Since 2001, the Locust Township budget has grown by 5.9 percent, from $527,267. The township population has grown 0.6 percent over the same period, from 656.

Salaries accounted for 8.2 percent of township spending in 2017. Locust Township property taxpayers paid $46,002 for one full-time employee and seven part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and seven part-time employees, and spent $41,920.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
660
$558,484
$46,002
8.2
8
$5,750
2016
660
$497,544
$56,176
11.3
9
$6,242
2015
660
$495,210
$52,369
10.6
12
$4,364
2014
660
$507,534
$56,272
11.1
12
$4,689
2013
660
$538,409
$54,000
10
11
$4,909
2012
660
$485,672
$53,848
11.1
11
$4,895
2011
660
$570,017
$63,540
11.1
11
$5,776
2010
660
$535,081
$58,546
10.9
11
$5,322
2009
660
$569,187
$62,491
11
13
$4,807
2008
660
$570,648
$65,340
11.5
13
$5,026
2007
660
$548,784
$60,190
11
14
$4,299
2006
660
$474,528
$60,716
12.8
10
$6,072
2005
660
$744,002
$61,461
8.3
10
$6,146
2004
656
$621,176
$52,528
8.5
7
$7,504
2003
656
$540,966
$53,239
9.8
7
$7,606
2002
656
$589,333
$54,088
9.2
8
$6,761
2001
656
$527,267
$41,920
8
8
$5,240

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

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