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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	2,037	100.0	Households	1,037	100.0
In labor force	1,312	64.4	Less than $10,000	125	12.1
Civilian labor force	1,312	64.4	$10,000 to $14,999	105	10.1
Employed	1,287	63.2	$15,000 to $24,999	154	14.9
Unemployed	25	1.2	$25,000 to $34,999	159	15.3
Percent of civilian labor force	1.9	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	175	16.9
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	202	19.5
Not in labor force	725	35.6	$75,000 to $99,999	67	6.5
			$100,000 to $149,999	27	2.6
Females 16 years and over	990	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	10	1.0
In labor force	570	57.6	$200,000 or more	13	1.3
Civilian labor force	570	57.6	Median household income (dollars)	33,345	(X)
Employed	556	56.2

Own children under 6 years	107	100.0	With earnings	829	79.9
All parents in family in labor force	74	69.2	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	41,762	(X)
			With Social Security income	260	25.1
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	11,035	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	1,269	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	52	5.0
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	1,036	81.6	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	198	15.6	(dollars)	6,092	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	9	0.9
Walked	9	0.7	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	2,156	(X)
Other means	0	0.0	With retirement income	159	15.3
Worked at home	26	2.0	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	15,919	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	25.4	(X)
			Families	748	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	46	6.1
16 years and over	1,287	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	60	8.0
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	93	12.4
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	93	12.4
occupations	443	34.4	$35,000 to $49,999	148	19.8
Service occupations	186	14.5	$50,000 to $74,999	191	25.5
Sales and office occupations	294	22.8	$75,000 to $99,999	67	9.0
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	10	0.8	$100,000 to $149,999	27	3.6
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	10	1.3
occupations	183	14.2	$200,000 or more	13	1.7
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	41,696	(X)
moving occupations	171	13.3
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	16,961	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	27,525	(X)
and mining	9	0.7	Female full-time, year-round workers	22,474	(X)
Construction	137	10.6	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	136	10.6		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	42	3.3		below	below
Retail trade	175	13.6		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	56	4.4	Subject	level	level
Information	38	3.0	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	73	5.7	Families	83	11.1
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	63	18.9
strative, and waste management services	82	6.4	With related children under 5 years	22	28.6
Educational, health and social services	317	24.6
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	126	9.8	no husband present	41	49.4
Other services (except public administration)	72	5.6	With related children under 18 years	29	58.0
Public administration	24	1.9	With related children under 5 years	4	50.0
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	429	16.8
Private wage and salary workers	948	73.7	18 years and over	270	13.8
Government workers	232	18.0	65 years and over	58	18.5
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	154	26.5
business	107	8.3	Related children 5 to 17 years	121	24.9
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	133	33.6

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