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Sunday, April 13, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Towanda

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The Village of Towanda budget was $564,392 for its 2017 fiscal year, or $1,690 per household.

That's a decrease of 7.1 percent from 2016, when the village spent $607,850, or $1,820 per household.

Towanda has 334 households and a population of 475.

Since 2001, the Village of Towanda budget has grown by 13.6 percent, from $497,000. The village population has grown 5.6 percent over the same period, from 450.

Salaries accounted for 11.2 percent of village spending in 2017. Towanda property taxpayers paid $63,064 for one full-time employee and five part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had two full-time employees and four part-time employees, and spent $69,303.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
475
$564,392
$63,064
11.2
6
$10,511
2016
480
$607,850
$71,514
11.8
5
$14,303
2015
480
$613,639
$61,944
10.1
3
$20,648
2014
480
$613,639
$57,936
9.4
5
$11,587
2013
480
$597,591
$92,939
15.6
4
$23,235
2012
493
$545,000
$83,917
15.4
5
$16,783
2011
493
$452,000
$72,091
15.9
5
$14,418
2010
493
$456,000
$66,932
14.7
5
$13,386
2009
493
$680,823
$67,935
10
5
$13,587
2008
450
$526,237
$60,303
11.5
6
$10,050
2007
450
$6,462,157
$51,865
0.8
6
$8,644
2006
450
$662,106
$57,736
8.7
6
$9,623
2005
450
$650,000
$61,077
9.4
6
$10,179
2004
450
$536,000
$72,573
13.5
6
$12,096
2003
450
$544,000
$72,984
13.4
6
$12,164
2002
450
$560,000
$114,723
20.5
6
$19,121
2001
450
$497,000
$69,303
13.9
6
$11,551

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

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