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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	2,341	100.0	Households	1,251	100.0
In labor force	1,585	67.7	Less than $10,000	148	11.8
Civilian labor force	1,585	67.7	$10,000 to $14,999	91	7.3
Employed	1,520	64.9	$15,000 to $24,999	223	17.8
Unemployed	65	2.8	$25,000 to $34,999	150	12.0
Percent of civilian labor force	4.1	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	229	18.3
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	209	16.7
Not in labor force	756	32.3	$75,000 to $99,999	101	8.1
			$100,000 to $149,999	49	3.9
Females 16 years and over	1,117	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	22	1.8
In labor force	641	57.4	$200,000 or more	29	2.3
Civilian labor force	641	57.4	Median household income (dollars)	35,456	(X)
Employed	599	53.6

Own children under 6 years	183	100.0	With earnings	1,059	84.7
All parents in family in labor force	122	66.7	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	40,488	(X)
			With Social Security income	306	24.5
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	10,674	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	1,479	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	27	2.2
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	1,235	83.5	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	139	9.4	(dollars)	6,022	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	24	1.9
Walked	23	1.6	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	1,829	(X)
Other means	4	0.3	With retirement income	177	14.1
Worked at home	78	5.3	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	18,984	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	24.7	(X)
			Families	768	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	33	4.3
16 years and over	1,520	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	29	3.8
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	100	13.0
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	122	15.9
occupations	486	32.0	$35,000 to $49,999	172	22.4
Service occupations	271	17.8	$50,000 to $74,999	176	22.9
Sales and office occupations	396	26.1	$75,000 to $99,999	51	6.6
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	49	3.2	$100,000 to $149,999	40	5.2
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	22	2.9
occupations	217	14.3	$200,000 or more	23	3.0
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	41,333	(X)
moving occupations	101	6.6
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	20,056	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	27,194	(X)
and mining	60	3.9	Female full-time, year-round workers	23,686	(X)
Construction	229	15.1	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	81	5.3		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	58	3.8		below	below
Retail trade	219	14.4		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	18	1.2	Subject	level	level
Information	20	1.3	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	74	4.9	Families	39	5.1
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	30	8.9
strative, and waste management services	86	5.7	With related children under 5 years	17	10.4
Educational, health and social services	327	21.5
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	201	13.2	no husband present	13	12.9
Other services (except public administration)	110	7.2	With related children under 18 years	13	28.3
Public administration	37	2.4	With related children under 5 years	0	0.0
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	308	10.7
Private wage and salary workers	1,160	76.3	18 years and over	255	11.2
Government workers	200	13.2	65 years and over	30	7.4
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	47	8.0
business	160	10.5	Related children 5 to 17 years	28	6.7
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	195	30.0

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