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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	1,606	100.0	Households	748	100.0
In labor force	1,109	69.1	Less than $10,000	80	10.7
Civilian labor force	1,109	69.1	$10,000 to $14,999	39	5.2
Employed	1,070	66.6	$15,000 to $24,999	112	15.0
Unemployed	39	2.4	$25,000 to $34,999	149	19.9
Percent of civilian labor force	3.5	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	171	22.9
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	108	14.4
Not in labor force	497	30.9	$75,000 to $99,999	55	7.4
			$100,000 to $149,999	34	4.5
Females 16 years and over	807	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
In labor force	505	62.6	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Civilian labor force	505	62.6	Median household income (dollars)	34,674	(X)
Employed	482	59.7

Own children under 6 years	143	100.0	With earnings	639	85.4
All parents in family in labor force	58	40.6	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	39,278	(X)
			With Social Security income	173	23.1
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	10,660	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	1,070	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	24	3.2
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	915	85.5	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	120	11.2	(dollars)	5,671	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	23	3.1
Walked	8	0.7	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	591	(X)
Other means	0	0.0	With retirement income	58	7.8
Worked at home	27	2.5	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	18,453	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	23.3	(X)
			Families	574	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	44	7.7
16 years and over	1,070	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	39	6.8
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	52	9.1
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	134	23.3
occupations	255	23.8	$35,000 to $49,999	134	23.3
Service occupations	150	14.0	$50,000 to $74,999	95	16.6
Sales and office occupations	231	21.6	$75,000 to $99,999	47	8.2
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	28	2.6	$100,000 to $149,999	29	5.1
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
occupations	193	18.0	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	39,167	(X)
moving occupations	213	19.9
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	15,620	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	27,891	(X)
and mining	54	5.0	Female full-time, year-round workers	20,587	(X)
Construction	182	17.0	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	119	11.1		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	27	2.5		below	below
Retail trade	171	16.0		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	42	3.9	Subject	level	level
Information	12	1.1	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	28	2.6	Families	51	8.9
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	31	11.0
strative, and waste management services	37	3.5	With related children under 5 years	10	13.5
Educational, health and social services	243	22.7
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	81	7.6	no husband present	14	63.6
Other services (except public administration)	47	4.4	With related children under 18 years	14	63.6
Public administration	27	2.5	With related children under 5 years	0	N/A
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	234	11.8
Private wage and salary workers	745	69.6	18 years and over	183	11.9
Government workers	199	18.6	65 years and over	42	20.0
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	51	11.5
business	99	9.3	Related children 5 to 17 years	32	9.5
Unpaid family workers	27	2.5	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	72	28.0

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