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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	3,125	100.0	Households	1,444	100.0
In labor force	2,084	66.7	Less than $10,000	121	8.4
Civilian labor force	2,084	66.7	$10,000 to $14,999	80	5.5
Employed	2,000	64.0	$15,000 to $24,999	110	7.6
Unemployed	84	2.7	$25,000 to $34,999	251	17.4
Percent of civilian labor force	4.0	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	242	16.8
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	308	21.3
Not in labor force	1,041	33.3	$75,000 to $99,999	183	12.7
			$100,000 to $149,999	107	7.4
Females 16 years and over	1,492	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	13	0.9
In labor force	849	56.9	$200,000 or more	29	2.0
Civilian labor force	849	56.9	Median household income (dollars)	46,897	(X)
Employed	840	56.3

Own children under 6 years	205	100.0	With earnings	1,205	83.4
All parents in family in labor force	62	30.2	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	53,418	(X)
			With Social Security income	339	23.5
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	11,351	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	1,990	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	23	1.6
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	1,443	72.5	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	255	12.8	(dollars)	5,974	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	12	0.6	With public assistance income	13	0.9
Walked	89	4.5	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	815	(X)
Other means	29	1.5	With retirement income	281	19.5
Worked at home	162	8.1	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	16,542	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	16.7	(X)
			Families	1,013	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	49	4.8
16 years and over	2,000	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	39	3.8
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	61	6.0
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	154	15.2
occupations	933	46.7	$35,000 to $49,999	169	16.7
Service occupations	248	12.4	$50,000 to $74,999	260	25.7
Sales and office occupations	499	24.9	$75,000 to $99,999	147	14.5
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	0	0.0	$100,000 to $149,999	99	9.8
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	13	1.3
occupations	226	11.3	$200,000 or more	22	2.2
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	55,950	(X)
moving occupations	94	4.7
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	22,229	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	32,487	(X)
and mining	0	0.0	Female full-time, year-round workers	26,700	(X)
Construction	222	11.1	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	115	5.8		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	37	1.8		below	below
Retail trade	269	13.5		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	58	2.9	Subject	level	level
Information	77	3.9	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	43	2.1	Families	61	6.0
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	25	6.3
strative, and waste management services	127	6.3	With related children under 5 years	12	10.1
Educational, health and social services	560	28.0
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	301	15.0	no husband present	39	30.7
Other services (except public administration)	143	7.1	With related children under 18 years	25	36.8
Public administration	48	2.4	With related children under 5 years	12	60.0
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	450	12.0
Private wage and salary workers	1,368	68.4	18 years and over	413	13.6
Government workers	483	24.1	65 years and over	22	5.5
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	32	4.6
business	148	7.4	Related children 5 to 17 years	9	1.7
Unpaid family workers	1	0.1	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	329	36.3

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