The village of Peotone budget was $6.50 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $4,439.98 per household.
That's a decrease of 1.8 percent from 2014 when the village spent $6.62 million, or $4,521.63 per household.
Peotone has 1,463 households and a population of 4,150.
Since 2001, the Peotone budget has grown by 30.8 percent, from $4.97 million. The village population has grown 22.6 percent over the same period, from 3,385.
Salaries accounted for 18 percent of village spending in 2015. Peotone property taxpayers paid $1.17 million for 19 full-time employees and eight part-time employees.
In 2001, the village had 21 full-time employees and 12 part-time employees and spent $974,894.74.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.