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Thursday, July 17, 2025

The price of local government in 2016: Village of Danforth

Budget 01

The Village of Danforth budget was $418,716 for its 2016 fiscal year, or $1,845 per household.

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.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
587
$418,716
$24,698
5.9
12
$2,058
2015
587
$401,128
$27,088
6.8
12
$2,257
2014
587
$365,000
$26,520
7.3
12
$2,210
2013
587
$346,658
$26,558
7.7
12
$2,213
2012
587
$313,910
$25,118
8
12
$2,093
2011
587
$302,654
$25,637
8.5
14
$1,831
2010
550
$290,764
$30,289
10.4
12
$2,524
2009
550
$284,189
$29,730
10.5
12
$2,477
2008
550
$270,656
$29,010
10.7
15
$1,934
2007
550
$271,426
$29,614
10.9
15
$1,974
2006
550
$287,850
$32,778
11.4
15
$2,185
2005
550
$297,908
$31,125
10.4
15
$2,075
2004
550
$305,654
$31,008
10.1
16
$1,938
2003
550
$310,216
$31,670
10.2
15
$2,111
2002
550
$318,780
$34,867
10.9
18
$1,937
2001
550
$321,630
$33,667
10.5
3
$11,222

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

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