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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	1,022	100.0	Households	502	100.0
In labor force	664	65.0	Less than $10,000	57	11.4
Civilian labor force	664	65.0	$10,000 to $14,999	57	11.4
Employed	651	63.7	$15,000 to $24,999	69	13.7
Unemployed	13	1.3	$25,000 to $34,999	60	12.0
Percent of civilian labor force	2.0	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	123	24.5
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	93	18.5
Not in labor force	358	35.0	$75,000 to $99,999	30	6.0
			$100,000 to $149,999	7	1.4
Females 16 years and over	498	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
In labor force	287	57.6	$200,000 or more	6	1.2
Civilian labor force	287	57.6	Median household income (dollars)	36,667	(X)
Employed	287	57.6

Own children under 6 years	68	100.0	With earnings	384	76.5
All parents in family in labor force	37	54.4	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	41,639	(X)
			With Social Security income	133	26.5
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	10,458	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	637	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	30	6.0
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	518	81.3	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	91	14.3	(dollars)	8,730	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	0	0.0
Walked	0	0.0	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	N/A	(X)
Other means	0	0.0	With retirement income	120	23.9
Worked at home	28	4.4	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	10,346	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	39.1	(X)
			Families	381	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	14	3.7
16 years and over	651	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	23	6.0
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	52	13.6
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	55	14.4
occupations	158	24.3	$35,000 to $49,999	106	27.8
Service occupations	99	15.2	$50,000 to $74,999	88	23.1
Sales and office occupations	133	20.4	$75,000 to $99,999	30	7.9
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	21	3.2	$100,000 to $149,999	7	1.8
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
occupations	121	18.6	$200,000 or more	6	1.6
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	41,809	(X)
moving occupations	119	18.3
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	17,556	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	25,577	(X)
and mining	17	2.6	Female full-time, year-round workers	20,917	(X)
Construction	77	11.8	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	89	13.7		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	6	0.9		below	below
Retail trade	83	12.7		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	24	3.7	Subject	level	level
Information	7	1.1	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	25	3.8	Families	20	5.2
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	6	4.0
strative, and waste management services	52	8.0	With related children under 5 years	6	13.6
Educational, health and social services	167	25.7
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	35	5.4	no husband present	7	28.0
Other services (except public administration)	47	7.2	With related children under 18 years	0	0.0
Public administration	22	3.4	With related children under 5 years	0	0.0
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	91	7.5
Private wage and salary workers	378	58.1	18 years and over	72	7.3
Government workers	160	24.6	65 years and over	21	10.8
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	19	8.7
business	113	17.4	Related children 5 to 17 years	13	7.9
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	28	21.1

-Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.