Metro East Sun

The City of Fairview Heights' local sales tax brought in $9,103,722 in 2016, according to Illinois State Comptroller revenue data. Fairview Heights, population 16,901, relied on its local sales tax to contribute 36 percent of total revenue that year.

Fairview Heights levies a 1 percent sales tax. The average of four suburbs in St. Clair County is 0.68. The high is 1 percent; the low is 0.25 percent.

Metro East Sun analyzed the sales tax collections in four St. Clair County suburbs and found they generated a total of $13,136,821 in tax revenue in 2016. That was the equivalent of 9% spent by local government.

Below is a list of St. Clair County municipalities' local tax revenue.