That's a decrease of one percent from 2014, when the village spent $1.20 million, or $7,522.89 per household.
Ellis Grove has 159 households and a population of 361.
Since 2001, the Village of Ellis Grove budget has grown by 48.4 percent, from $798,367.50. The village population has grown 2.3 percent over the same period, from 353.
Salaries accounted for 4.2 percent of village spending in 2015. Ellis Grove property taxpayers paid $49,304.76 for 18 part-time employees, or an average of $2,739.15 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had seven part-time employees and spent $47,027.99, or $6,718.28 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.