Metro East Sun

The City of Granite City's local sales tax brought in $2,779,983 in 2016, according to Illinois State Comptroller revenue data. Granite City, population 29,860, relied on its local sales tax to contribute 5 percent of total revenue that year.

Granite City levies a 1.5 percent sales tax. The average of three suburbs in Madison County is 0.83. The high is 1.5 percent; the low is 0 percent.

Metro East Sun analyzed the sales tax collections in three Madison County suburbs and found they generated a total of $7,311,117 in tax revenue in 2016. That was the equivalent of 6% spent by local government.

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