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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Riverdale

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The Village of Riverdale budget was $26.37 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $6,903 per household.

That's a decrease of 5.6 percent from 2016, when the village spent $27.94 million, or $7,314 per household.

Riverdale has 3,820 households and a population of 13,549.

Since 2001, the Village of Riverdale budget has fallen by 48.6 percent, from $51.27 million. The village population has fallen 5.5 percent over the same period, from 14,336.

Salaries accounted for 25.1 percent of village spending in 2017. Riverdale property taxpayers paid $6.63 million for 81 full-time employees and 24 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 84 full-time employees and 50 part-time employees, and spent $6.28 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
13,549
$26,368,514
$6,627,298
25.1
105
$63,117
2016
13,549
$27,941,270
$6,492,193
23.2
91
$71,343
2015
13,549
$28,074,196
$6,940,357
24.7
99
$70,105
2014
13,549
$34,148,899
$6,883,252
20.2
97
$70,961
2013
13,549
$34,405,596
$6,684,121
19.4
97
$68,908
2011
13,549
$30,959,349
$6,721,172
21.7
100
$67,212
2010
13,495
$25,902,596
$6,568,161
25.4
104
$63,155
2009
14,077
$34,714,222
$7,195,461
20.7
115
$62,569
2008
14,077
$50,303,354
$6,423,614
12.8
115
$55,858
2007
15,055
$42,476,354
$8,964,081
21.1
107
$83,776
2006
14,588
$42,183,101
$6,977,263
16.5
109
$64,012
2005
15,055
$27,944,995
$6,573,566
23.5
119
$55,240
2004
15,055
$20,086,391
$6,285,498
31.3
121
$51,946
2003
15,055
$25,799,250
$6,052,631
23.5
121
$50,022
2002
15,055
$48,594,315
$6,049,175
12.4
134
$45,143
2001
14,336
$51,267,334
$6,280,992
12.3
134
$46,873

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

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