That's a decrease of 2.5 percent from 2016, when the village spent $202,108, or $2,350 per household.
Rockbridge has 86 households and a population of 169.
Since 2001, the Village of Rockbridge budget has grown by 131.2 percent, from $85,200. The village population has fallen 32.4 percent over the same period, from 250.
Salaries accounted for nine percent of village spending in 2017. Rockbridge property taxpayers paid $17,646 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $2,206 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had two part-time employees and spent $9,535, or $4,768 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.