That's an increase of 0.7 percent from 2016, when the township spent $399,957.
Apple River Township has a population of 498.
Since 2001, the Apple River Township budget has grown by 63.5 percent, from $246,200. The township population has fallen 5.1 percent over the same period, from 525.
Salaries accounted for 4.7 percent of township spending in 2017. Apple River Township property taxpayers paid $19,064 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $2,383 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had seven part-time employees and spent $13,109, or $1,873 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.