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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	1,479	100.0	Households	718	100.0
In labor force	863	58.4	Less than $10,000	64	8.9
Civilian labor force	863	58.4	$10,000 to $14,999	73	10.2
Employed	839	56.7	$15,000 to $24,999	129	18.0
Unemployed	24	1.6	$25,000 to $34,999	115	16.0
Percent of civilian labor force	2.8	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	115	16.0
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	134	18.7
Not in labor force	616	41.6	$75,000 to $99,999	55	7.7
			$100,000 to $149,999	18	2.5
Females 16 years and over	755	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	9	1.3
In labor force	386	51.1	$200,000 or more	6	0.8
Civilian labor force	386	51.1	Median household income (dollars)	32,708	(X)
Employed	380	50.3

Own children under 6 years	121	100.0	With earnings	572	79.7
All parents in family in labor force	68	56.2	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	38,620	(X)
			With Social Security income	222	30.9
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	11,934	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	804	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	24	3.3
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	583	72.5	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	156	19.4	(dollars)	6,650	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	4	0.6
Walked	8	1.0	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	1,500	(X)
Other means	0	0.0	With retirement income	137	19.1
Worked at home	57	7.1	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	19,023	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	28.3	(X)
			Families	543	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	24	4.4
16 years and over	839	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	50	9.2
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	117	21.5
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	71	13.1
occupations	211	25.1	$35,000 to $49,999	99	18.2
Service occupations	136	16.2	$50,000 to $74,999	118	21.7
Sales and office occupations	225	26.8	$75,000 to $99,999	43	7.9
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	0	0.0	$100,000 to $149,999	6	1.1
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	9	1.7
occupations	165	19.7	$200,000 or more	6	1.1
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	37,375	(X)
moving occupations	102	12.2
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	17,031	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	26,493	(X)
and mining	4	0.5	Female full-time, year-round workers	20,847	(X)
Construction	155	18.5	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	65	7.7		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	7	0.8		below	below
Retail trade	88	10.5		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	26	3.1	Subject	level	level
Information	7	0.8	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	74	8.8	Families	68	12.5
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	44	20.5
strative, and waste management services	85	10.1	With related children under 5 years	23	34.8
Educational, health and social services	167	19.9
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	71	8.5	no husband present	3	8.6
Other services (except public administration)	66	7.9	With related children under 18 years	0	0.0
Public administration	24	2.9	With related children under 5 years	0	N/A
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	274	15.0
Private wage and salary workers	558	66.5	18 years and over	168	11.8
Government workers	119	14.2	65 years and over	32	11.5
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	106	26.8
business	157	18.7	Related children 5 to 17 years	76	24.4
Unpaid family workers	5	0.6	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	41	18.1

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