That's an increase of 2.4 percent from 2015, when the township spent $453,904.
Jasper Township has a population of 1,726.
Since 2001, the Jasper Township budget has grown by 53 percent, from $303,809. The township population has fallen 1.4 percent over the same period, from 1,750.
Salaries accounted for 9.1 percent of township spending in 2016. Jasper Township property taxpayers paid $42,488 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $3,863 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and nine part-time employees, and spent $45,730.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.