That's an increase of 0.8 percent from 2016, when the village spent $201,854, or $2,019 per household.
Joppa has 100 households and a population of 341.
Since 2001, the Village of Joppa budget has fallen by 61.6 percent, from $529,781. The village population has fallen 31.8 percent over the same period, from 500.
Salaries accounted for 27.9 percent of village spending in 2017. Joppa property taxpayers paid $56,782 for two full-time employees, or an average of $28,391 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had one full-time employee and four part-time employees, and spent $94,582.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.