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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	2,762	100.0	Households	1,459	100.0
In labor force	1,892	68.5	Less than $10,000	235	16.1
Civilian labor force	1,892	68.5	$10,000 to $14,999	100	6.9
Employed	1,839	66.6	$15,000 to $24,999	236	16.2
Unemployed	53	1.9	$25,000 to $34,999	163	11.2
Percent of civilian labor force	2.8	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	245	16.8
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	268	18.4
Not in labor force	870	31.5	$75,000 to $99,999	111	7.6
			$100,000 to $149,999	94	6.4
Females 16 years and over	1,371	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	7	0.5
In labor force	838	61.1	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Civilian labor force	838	61.1	Median household income (dollars)	34,438	(X)
Employed	807	58.9

Own children under 6 years	165	100.0	With earnings	1,290	88.4
All parents in family in labor force	105	63.6	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	38,677	(X)
			With Social Security income	285	19.5
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	10,597	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	1,809	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	24	1.6
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	1,502	83.0	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	209	11.6	(dollars)	6,596	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	23	1.3	With public assistance income	6	0.4
Walked	14	0.8	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	400	(X)
Other means	0	0.0	With retirement income	198	13.6
Worked at home	61	3.4	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	15,710	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	20.6	(X)
			Families	816	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	45	5.5
16 years and over	1,839	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	28	3.4
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	91	11.2
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	106	13.0
occupations	640	34.8	$35,000 to $49,999	157	19.2
Service occupations	290	15.8	$50,000 to $74,999	204	25.0
Sales and office occupations	452	24.6	$75,000 to $99,999	99	12.1
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	31	1.7	$100,000 to $149,999	79	9.7
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	7	0.9
occupations	195	10.6	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	47,935	(X)
moving occupations	231	12.6
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	18,401	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	30,147	(X)
and mining	19	1.0	Female full-time, year-round workers	22,381	(X)
Construction	137	7.4	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	123	6.7		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	30	1.6		below	below
Retail trade	284	15.4		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	98	5.3	Subject	level	level
Information	50	2.7	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	96	5.2	Families	57	7.0
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	27	8.1
strative, and waste management services	57	3.1	With related children under 5 years	11	8.2
Educational, health and social services	547	29.7
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	269	14.6	no husband present	27	31.4
Other services (except public administration)	85	4.6	With related children under 18 years	10	25.6
Public administration	44	2.4	With related children under 5 years	5	100.0
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	581	18.0
Private wage and salary workers	1,276	69.4	18 years and over	543	20.3
Government workers	419	22.8	65 years and over	33	10.5
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	38	6.8
business	137	7.4	Related children 5 to 17 years	20	4.9
Unpaid family workers	7	0.4	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	444	45.2

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