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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	5,620	100.0	Households	2,826	100.0
In labor force	3,667	65.2	Less than $10,000	364	12.9
Civilian labor force	3,667	65.2	$10,000 to $14,999	247	8.7
Employed	3,492	62.1	$15,000 to $24,999	441	15.6
Unemployed	175	3.1	$25,000 to $34,999	365	12.9
Percent of civilian labor force	4.8	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	553	19.6
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	559	19.8
Not in labor force	1,953	34.8	$75,000 to $99,999	175	6.2
			$100,000 to $149,999	62	2.2
Females 16 years and over	2,821	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	17	0.6
In labor force	1,648	58.4	$200,000 or more	43	1.5
Civilian labor force	1,648	58.4	Median household income (dollars)	34,583	(X)
Employed	1,552	55.0

Own children under 6 years	466	100.0	With earnings	2,225	78.7
All parents in family in labor force	268	57.5	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	45,929	(X)
			With Social Security income	812	28.7
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	9,628	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	3,408	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	111	3.9
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	2,880	84.5	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	387	11.4	(dollars)	5,153	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	25	0.9
Walked	48	1.4	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	2,024	(X)
Other means	6	0.2	With retirement income	312	11.0
Worked at home	87	2.6	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	19,347	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	25.9	(X)
			Families	2,115	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	125	5.9
16 years and over	3,492	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	128	6.1
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	272	12.9
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	308	14.6
occupations	640	18.3	$35,000 to $49,999	494	23.4
Service occupations	525	15.0	$50,000 to $74,999	508	24.0
Sales and office occupations	795	22.8	$75,000 to $99,999	167	7.9
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	22	0.6	$100,000 to $149,999	54	2.6
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	16	0.8
occupations	555	15.9	$200,000 or more	43	2.0
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	43,131	(X)
moving occupations	955	27.3
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	18,073	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	26,383	(X)
and mining	75	2.1	Female full-time, year-round workers	21,950	(X)
Construction	314	9.0	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	1,102	31.6		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	116	3.3		below	below
Retail trade	482	13.8		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	153	4.4	Subject	level	level
Information	118	3.4	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	92	2.6	Families	183	8.7
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	58	7.0
strative, and waste management services	142	4.1	With related children under 5 years	29	9.5
Educational, health and social services	414	11.9
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	226	6.5	no husband present	28	16.3
Other services (except public administration)	194	5.6	With related children under 18 years	9	10.7
Public administration	64	1.8	With related children under 5 years	0	0.0
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	731	10.5
Private wage and salary workers	2,847	81.5	18 years and over	596	10.9
Government workers	298	8.5	65 years and over	188	18.4
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	119	8.1
business	335	9.6	Related children 5 to 17 years	92	8.5
Unpaid family workers	12	0.3	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	246	28.0

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