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The price of local government in 2016: Lexington Township

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The Lexington Township budget was $542,947 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 8.5 percent from 2015, when the township spent $593,316.

Lexington Township has a population of 2,068.

Since 2001, the Lexington Township budget has grown by 24.2 percent, from $436,989. The township population has fallen 11.3 percent over the same period, from 2,331.

Salaries accounted for 14.4 percent of township spending in 2016. Lexington Township property taxpayers paid $78,420 for one full-time employee and 15 part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had 13 part-time employees and spent $70,710, or $5,439 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
2,068
$542,947
$78,420
14.4
16
$4,901
2015
2,069
$593,316
$76,026
12.8
10
$7,603
2014
2,069
$563,231
$75,366
13.4
17
$4,433
2013
2,069
$544,870
$75,902
13.9
9
$8,434
2012
2,011
$580,173
$73,321
12.6
9
$8,147
2011
2,331
$559,942
$73,492
13.1
9
$8,166
2010
2,331
$489,491
$73,414
15
9
$8,157
2009
2,331
$515,914
$72,448
14
9
$8,050
2008
2,000
$733,757
$71,927
9.8
9
$7,992
2007
1,977
$541,513
$75,905
14
14
$5,422
2006
1,925
$499,176
$73,925
14.8
13
$5,687
2005
1,925
$511,109
$73,379
14.4
13
$5,645
2004
1,925
$451,513
$71,841
15.9
13
$5,526
2003
1,925
$442,000
$72,863
16.5
13
$5,605
2002
2,331
$473,784
$78,159
16.5
13
$6,012
2001
2,331
$436,989
$70,710
16.2
13
$5,439

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

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