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Thursday, September 11, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of El Dara

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The Village of El Dara budget was $26,520 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $465 per household.

That's a decrease of 15.8 percent from 2016, when the village spent $31,500, or $553 per household.

El Dara has 57 households and a population of 78.

Since 2001, the Village of El Dara budget has fallen by 25.3 percent, from $35,500. The village population has fallen 12.4 percent over the same period, from 89.

Salaries accounted for 8.5 percent of village spending in 2017. El Dara property taxpayers paid $2,259 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $251 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had nine part-time employees and spent $1,363, or $151 each.

Year
Population
Budget
2017
78
$26,520
2016
78
$31,500
2015
78
$31,800
2014
78
$31,800
2013
78
$32,400
2012
78
$32,700
2011
89
$33,900
2010
89
$34,200
2009
89
$35,100
2008
89
$40,950
2007
84
$36,600
2006
84
$31,250
2005
84
$32,500
2004
84
$33,500
2003
89
$34,000
2002
85
$35,000
2001
89
$35,500

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

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