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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	1,113	100.0	Households	510	100.0
In labor force	713	64.1	Less than $10,000	67	13.1
Civilian labor force	713	64.1	$10,000 to $14,999	40	7.8
Employed	636	57.1	$15,000 to $24,999	64	12.5
Unemployed	77	6.9	$25,000 to $34,999	41	8.0
Percent of civilian labor force	10.8	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	137	26.9
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	80	15.7
Not in labor force	400	35.9	$75,000 to $99,999	49	9.6
			$100,000 to $149,999	20	3.9
Females 16 years and over	555	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	6	1.2
In labor force	316	56.9	$200,000 or more	6	1.2
Civilian labor force	316	56.9	Median household income (dollars)	38,125	(X)
Employed	294	53.0

Own children under 6 years	92	100.0	With earnings	414	81.2
All parents in family in labor force	46	50.0	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	46,488	(X)
			With Social Security income	158	31.0
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	9,823	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	620	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	12	2.4
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	487	78.5	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	88	14.2	(dollars)	4,783	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	8	1.6
Walked	4	0.6	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	238	(X)
Other means	0	0.0	With retirement income	85	16.7
Worked at home	41	6.6	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	10,098	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	24.2	(X)
			Families	397	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	15	3.8
16 years and over	636	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	37	9.3
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	54	13.6
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	48	12.1
occupations	152	23.9	$35,000 to $49,999	98	24.7
Service occupations	89	14.0	$50,000 to $74,999	74	18.6
Sales and office occupations	158	24.8	$75,000 to $99,999	39	9.8
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	0	0.0	$100,000 to $149,999	20	5.0
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	6	1.5
occupations	92	14.5	$200,000 or more	6	1.5
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	43,250	(X)
moving occupations	145	22.8
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	16,607	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	28,229	(X)
and mining	10	1.6	Female full-time, year-round workers	22,574	(X)
Construction	62	9.7	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	145	22.8		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	7	1.1		below	below
Retail trade	70	11.0		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	42	6.6	Subject	level	level
Information	12	1.9	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	57	9.0	Families	44	11.1
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	34	16.3
strative, and waste management services	39	6.1	With related children under 5 years	13	23.2
Educational, health and social services	128	20.1
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	32	5.0	no husband present	10	20.8
Other services (except public administration)	28	4.4	With related children under 18 years	10	34.5
Public administration	4	0.6	With related children under 5 years	0	0.0
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	253	18.3
Private wage and salary workers	471	74.1	18 years and over	166	15.9
Government workers	92	14.5	65 years and over	32	17.1
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	87	25.7
business	73	11.5	Related children 5 to 17 years	56	22.6
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	86	38.6

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