How Green Castle is run
Green Castle spent $36,000 in the year to December 31, 2022, about $148 per resident.
What stands out about how Green Castle is run
Read from the town’s budget, meetings and records. The page puts what stands out first.
About $148 per resident a year, or $0.41 a day
The biggest line: paid to other governments, at 75% of spending.
Thank you for being a neighbor
The typical homeowner pays $447 a year
Every local property tax on the home: town, schools and county. About 0.82% of the home’s value, vs 0.85% across Missouri.
Typical yearly bill next door and statewide
The Housing page’s calculator splits a monthly payment into loan, tax and insurance at Green Castle’s rate.
Can I afford it? →The median bill homeowners report to the Census survey (bills of $10,000+ are reported as “$10,000+”). The effective rate is that bill ÷ the median home value: a rough guide, not the official tax rate. In a town this small the estimate has a wide margin.
Green City R-I School District
Green Castle’s K–12 school district, shared with Green City. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $14,658 per pupil, $8,538 goes to the classroom (teachers, aides, supplies); the rest to buses, buildings, counselors and administration. Building projects and debt payments aren’t in the per-pupil figure.
Missouri districts overall: 54% local, 35% state, 11% federal.
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
Who’s in charge in Green Castle
Local officials aren’t in the public records we use for Green Castle yet. Neighbors can add them.
0 full-time staff
On the payroll in March 2022.
By department full-time, plus part-time
Pay is March payroll times twelve, so it’s approximate. Part-timers count half in the bar lengths.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Green Castle.
- 1Your cityMayor & councilLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2Missouri HouseState representatives
- 3Missouri SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of Missouri
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Green Castle’s government
Numbers and hours come from neighbors and the town’s own site (the Handbook). A new one goes live once two neighbors confirm it.
Questions about how Green Castle is run?
Neighbors who’ve been to the meetings can help.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Budget and staff: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments and Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll. School district: Census school finance survey. Property tax: Census American Community Survey, 5-year estimates. Representatives: Open States, the Census and congress-legislators.