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The price of local government in 2017: Afton Township

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The Afton Township budget was $649,136 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 9.1 percent from 2016, when the township spent $713,768.

Afton Township has a population of 861.

Since 2001, the Afton Township budget has grown by 45.3 percent, from $446,733. The township population has grown 36.7 percent over the same period, from 630.

Salaries accounted for 7.2 percent of township spending in 2017. Afton Township property taxpayers paid $46,707 for one full-time employee and 10 part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had 10 part-time employees and spent $82,790, or $8,279 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
861
$649,136
$46,707
7.2
11
$4,246
2016
891
$713,768
$45,827
6.4
11
$4,166
2015
861
$804,224
$55,538
6.9
7
$7,934
2014
861
$761,564
$52,873
6.9
7
$7,553
2013
861
$754,533
$35,730
4.7
7
$5,104
2012
861
$676,470
$39,667
5.9
7
$5,667
2011
861
$686,486
$66,603
9.7
15
$4,440
2010
640
$615,542
$49,726
8.1
11
$4,521
2009
640
$731,729
$53,894
7.4
9
$5,988
2008
640
$734,059
$55,700
7.6
9
$6,189
2007
640
$602,589
$46,624
7.7
14
$3,330
2006
640
$634,418
$54,555
8.6
14
$3,897
2005
640
$628,061
$60,558
9.6
12
$5,046
2004
640
$536,595
$69,330
12.9
15
$4,622
2003
640
$396,532
$60,105
15.2
13
$4,623
2002
640
$515,504
$81,627
15.8
10
$8,163
2001
630
$446,733
$82,790
18.5
10
$8,279

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

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