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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	2,422	100.0	Households	1,307	100.0
In labor force	1,551	64.0	Less than $10,000	122	9.3
Civilian labor force	1,551	64.0	$10,000 to $14,999	71	5.4
Employed	1,489	61.5	$15,000 to $24,999	98	7.5
Unemployed	62	2.6	$25,000 to $34,999	137	10.5
Percent of civilian labor force	4.0	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	211	16.1
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	303	23.2
Not in labor force	871	36.0	$75,000 to $99,999	138	10.6
			$100,000 to $149,999	127	9.7
Females 16 years and over	1,290	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	41	3.1
In labor force	731	56.7	$200,000 or more	59	4.5
Civilian labor force	731	56.7	Median household income (dollars)	50,843	(X)
Employed	699	54.2

Own children under 6 years	141	100.0	With earnings	1,013	77.5
All parents in family in labor force	76	53.9	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	64,070	(X)
			With Social Security income	348	26.6
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	12,770	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	1,459	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	33	2.5
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	1,195	81.9	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	146	10.0	(dollars)	4,842	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	15	1.1
Walked	44	3.0	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	3,393	(X)
Other means	13	0.9	With retirement income	223	17.1
Worked at home	61	4.2	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	19,751	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	21.5	(X)
			Families	800	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	16	2.0
16 years and over	1,489	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	20	2.5
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	31	3.9
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	47	5.9
occupations	643	43.2	$35,000 to $49,999	133	16.6
Service occupations	175	11.8	$50,000 to $74,999	251	31.4
Sales and office occupations	370	24.8	$75,000 to $99,999	101	12.6
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	0	0.0	$100,000 to $149,999	118	14.8
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	31	3.9
occupations	197	13.2	$200,000 or more	52	6.5
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	63,750	(X)
moving occupations	104	7.0
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	30,648	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	36,757	(X)
and mining	6	0.4	Female full-time, year-round workers	31,250	(X)
Construction	179	12.0	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	53	3.6		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	42	2.8		below	below
Retail trade	237	15.9		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	25	1.7	Subject	level	level
Information	17	1.1	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	118	7.9	Families	23	2.9
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	21	8.0
strative, and waste management services	80	5.4	With related children under 5 years	10	9.1
Educational, health and social services	452	30.4
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	150	10.1	no husband present	15	31.9
Other services (except public administration)	84	5.6	With related children under 18 years	15	44.1
Public administration	46	3.1	With related children under 5 years	10	58.8
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	290	10.5
Private wage and salary workers	951	63.9	18 years and over	213	9.3
Government workers	336	22.6	65 years and over	31	6.7
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	77	16.7
business	199	13.4	Related children 5 to 17 years	69	20.1
Unpaid family workers	3	0.2	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	184	27.4

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