That's a decrease of 30.5 percent from 2016, when the village spent $61,497, or $1,255 per household.
Strawn has 49 households and a population of 104.
Since 2001, the Village of Strawn budget has fallen by 56.3 percent, from $97,865. The village population has fallen 30.7 percent over the same period, from 150.
Salaries accounted for 13.2 percent of village spending in 2017. Strawn property taxpayers paid $5,651 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $807 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had seven part-time employees and spent $5,349, or $764 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.