That's an increase of 4.4 percent from 2015, when the village spent $401,128, or $1,767 per household.
Danforth has 227 households and a population of 587.
Since 2001, the Village of Danforth budget has grown by 30.2 percent, from $321,630. The village population has grown 6.7 percent over the same period, from 550.
Salaries accounted for 5.9 percent of village spending in 2016. Danforth property taxpayers paid $24,698 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $2,058 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had three part-time employees and spent $33,667, or $11,222 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.