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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	811	100.0	Households	401	100.0
In labor force	514	63.4	Less than $10,000	79	19.7
Civilian labor force	514	63.4	$10,000 to $14,999	18	4.5
Employed	466	57.5	$15,000 to $24,999	66	16.5
Unemployed	48	5.9	$25,000 to $34,999	95	23.7
Percent of civilian labor force	9.3	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	56	14.0
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	36	9.0
Not in labor force	297	36.6	$75,000 to $99,999	31	7.7
			$100,000 to $149,999	10	2.5
Females 16 years and over	387	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	10	2.5
In labor force	193	49.9	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Civilian labor force	193	49.9	Median household income (dollars)	29,236	(X)
Employed	168	43.4

Own children under 6 years	48	100.0	With earnings	315	78.6
All parents in family in labor force	27	56.3	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	41,294	(X)
			With Social Security income	78	19.5
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	11,212	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	457	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	26	6.5
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	288	63.0	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	131	28.7	(dollars)	3,612	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	0	0.0
Walked	0	0.0	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	N/A	(X)
Other means	0	0.0	With retirement income	29	7.2
Worked at home	38	8.3	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	21,948	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	40.6	(X)
			Families	278	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	24	8.6
16 years and over	466	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	7	2.5
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	44	15.8
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	72	25.9
occupations	77	16.5	$35,000 to $49,999	51	18.3
Service occupations	45	9.7	$50,000 to $74,999	29	10.4
Sales and office occupations	86	18.5	$75,000 to $99,999	31	11.2
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	12	2.6	$100,000 to $149,999	10	3.6
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	10	3.6
occupations	63	13.5	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	32,778	(X)
moving occupations	183	39.3
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	16,657	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	27,833	(X)
and mining	19	4.1	Female full-time, year-round workers	19,332	(X)
Construction	67	14.4	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	144	30.9		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	9	1.9		below	below
Retail trade	75	16.1		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	14	3.0	Subject	level	level
Information	6	1.3	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	23	4.9	Families	24	8.6
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	7	8.8
strative, and waste management services	45	9.7	With related children under 5 years	0	0.0
Educational, health and social services	22	4.7
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	22	4.7	no husband present	0	0.0
Other services (except public administration)	0	0.0	With related children under 18 years	0	0.0
Public administration	20	4.3	With related children under 5 years	0	N/A
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	145	15.7
Private wage and salary workers	348	74.7	18 years and over	130	16.4
Government workers	23	4.9	65 years and over	42	35.6
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	15	11.7
business	89	19.1	Related children 5 to 17 years	15	18.8
Unpaid family workers	6	1.3	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	70	47.0

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