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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	575	100.0	Households	300	100.0
In labor force	423	73.6	Less than $10,000	20	6.7
Civilian labor force	423	73.6	$10,000 to $14,999	19	6.3
Employed	407	70.8	$15,000 to $24,999	62	20.7
Unemployed	16	2.8	$25,000 to $34,999	44	14.7
Percent of civilian labor force	3.8	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	39	13.0
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	94	31.3
Not in labor force	152	26.4	$75,000 to $99,999	2	0.7
			$100,000 to $149,999	14	4.7
Females 16 years and over	302	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
In labor force	199	65.9	$200,000 or more	6	2.0
Civilian labor force	199	65.9	Median household income (dollars)	36,136	(X)
Employed	197	65.2

Own children under 6 years	47	100.0	With earnings	267	89.0
All parents in family in labor force	38	80.9	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	46,236	(X)
			With Social Security income	49	16.3
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	10,659	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	400	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	5	1.7
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	243	60.8	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	107	26.8	(dollars)	4,620	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	0	0.0
Walked	5	1.3	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	N/A	(X)
Other means	2	0.5	With retirement income	16	5.3
Worked at home	43	10.8	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	25,450	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	24.6	(X)
			Families	221	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	5	2.3
16 years and over	407	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	0	0.0
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	41	18.6
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	33	14.9
occupations	163	40.0	$35,000 to $49,999	31	14.0
Service occupations	92	22.6	$50,000 to $74,999	89	40.3
Sales and office occupations	83	20.4	$75,000 to $99,999	2	0.9
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	0	0.0	$100,000 to $149,999	14	6.3
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
occupations	56	13.8	$200,000 or more	6	2.7
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	50,039	(X)
moving occupations	13	3.2
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	19,343	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	28,214	(X)
and mining	15	3.7	Female full-time, year-round workers	21,726	(X)
Construction	50	12.3	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	20	4.9		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	2	0.5		below	below
Retail trade	35	8.6		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	14	3.4	Subject	level	level
Information	5	1.2	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	26	6.4	Families	5	2.3
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	0	0.0
strative, and waste management services	53	13.0	With related children under 5 years	0	0.0
Educational, health and social services	114	28.0
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	43	10.6	no husband present	0	0.0
Other services (except public administration)	13	3.2	With related children under 18 years	0	0.0
Public administration	17	4.2	With related children under 5 years	0	0.0
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	27	3.8
Private wage and salary workers	220	54.1	18 years and over	27	5.0
Government workers	88	21.6	65 years and over	14	21.9
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	0	0.0
business	99	24.3	Related children 5 to 17 years	0	0.0
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	13	12.7

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