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The price of local government in 2017: Village of Muncie

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The Village of Muncie budget was $49,776 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $957 per household.

That's an increase of 28.2 percent from 2016, when the village spent $38,819, or $747 per household.

Muncie has 52 households and a population of 143.

Since 2001, the Village of Muncie budget has grown by 100.1 percent, from $24,878. The village population has fallen 7.7 percent over the same period, from 155.

Salaries accounted for 9.3 percent of village spending in 2017. Muncie property taxpayers paid $4,641 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $580 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
143
$49,776
$4,641
9.3
8
$580
2016
143
$38,819
$4,340
11.2
12
$362
2015
143
$37,100
$5,336
14.4
8
$667
2014
146
$37,100
$3,498
9.4
8
$437
2013
146
$25,920
$2,808
10.8
8
$351
2012
146
$27,359
$3,008
11
9
$334
2011
146
$28,363
$3,119
11
9
$347
2010
155
$28,614
$2,941
10.3
8
$368
2009
155
$29,367
$2,808
9.6
8
$351
2008
155
$29,367
$2,907
9.9
9
$323
2007
155
$27,816
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2006
155
$28,500
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2005
155
$27,638
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unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2004
155
$25,138
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2003
155
$25,514
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unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2002
151
$25,214
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
2001
155
$24,878
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable
unavailable

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

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