That's an increase of 8.5 percent from 2016, when the township spent $1.36 million.
Northville Township has a population of 7,410.
Since 2001, the Northville Township budget has grown by 174.7 percent, from $535,458. The township population has grown 70.3 percent over the same period, from 4,350.
Salaries accounted for 11.1 percent of township spending in 2017. Northville Township property taxpayers paid $162,480 for 17 part-time employees, or an average of $9,558 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 15 part-time employees and spent $73,796, or $4,920 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.