That's a decrease of 4.6 percent from 2016, when the township spent $501,672.
Deer Creek Township has a population of 1,383.
Since 2001, the Deer Creek Township budget has grown by 22.8 percent, from $389,776. The township population has fallen 7.8 percent over the same period, from 1,500.
Salaries accounted for 14.4 percent of township spending in 2017. Deer Creek Township property taxpayers paid $69,056 for six part-time employees, or an average of $11,509 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 12 part-time employees and spent $36,886, or $3,074 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.