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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	1,603	100.0	Households	770	100.0
In labor force	1,061	66.2	Less than $10,000	89	11.6
Civilian labor force	1,061	66.2	$10,000 to $14,999	46	6.0
Employed	1,030	64.3	$15,000 to $24,999	151	19.6
Unemployed	31	1.9	$25,000 to $34,999	95	12.3
Percent of civilian labor force	2.9	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	148	19.2
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	162	21.0
Not in labor force	542	33.8	$75,000 to $99,999	38	4.9
			$100,000 to $149,999	5	0.6
Females 16 years and over	798	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	7	0.9
In labor force	433	54.3	$200,000 or more	29	3.8
Civilian labor force	433	54.3	Median household income (dollars)	35,164	(X)
Employed	423	53.0

Own children under 6 years	130	100.0	With earnings	619	80.4
All parents in family in labor force	34	26.2	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	49,621	(X)
			With Social Security income	182	23.6
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	9,151	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	1,025	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	14	1.8
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	769	75.0	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	230	22.4	(dollars)	4,186	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	17	2.2
Walked	0	0.0	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	2,153	(X)
Other means	26	2.5	With retirement income	38	4.9
Worked at home	0	0.0	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	17,084	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	25.9	(X)
			Families	605	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	32	5.3
16 years and over	1,030	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	24	4.0
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	151	25.0
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	95	15.7
occupations	216	21.0	$35,000 to $49,999	72	11.9
Service occupations	111	10.8	$50,000 to $74,999	152	25.1
Sales and office occupations	183	17.8	$75,000 to $99,999	38	6.3
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	23	2.2	$100,000 to $149,999	5	0.8
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	7	1.2
occupations	167	16.2	$200,000 or more	29	4.8
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	35,074	(X)
moving occupations	330	32.0
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	16,764	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	27,214	(X)
and mining	44	4.3	Female full-time, year-round workers	20,082	(X)
Construction	105	10.2	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	249	24.2		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	51	5.0		below	below
Retail trade	112	10.9		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	93	9.0	Subject	level	level
Information	0	0.0	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	45	4.4	Families	48	7.9
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	32	10.2
strative, and waste management services	27	2.6	With related children under 5 years	16	17.4
Educational, health and social services	180	17.5
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	45	4.4	no husband present	9	14.8
Other services (except public administration)	57	5.5	With related children under 18 years	9	28.1
Public administration	22	2.1	With related children under 5 years	0	N/A
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	192	9.5
Private wage and salary workers	806	78.3	18 years and over	137	9.2
Government workers	119	11.6	65 years and over	56	25.2
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	55	10.1
business	105	10.2	Related children 5 to 17 years	21	5.0
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	60	29.7

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