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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	2,158	100.0	Households	1,087	100.0
In labor force	1,509	69.9	Less than $10,000	109	10.0
Civilian labor force	1,509	69.9	$10,000 to $14,999	90	8.3
Employed	1,467	68.0	$15,000 to $24,999	154	14.2
Unemployed	42	1.9	$25,000 to $34,999	124	11.4
Percent of civilian labor force	2.8	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	243	22.4
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	199	18.3
Not in labor force	649	30.1	$75,000 to $99,999	86	7.9
			$100,000 to $149,999	44	4.0
Females 16 years and over	1,079	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	22	2.0
In labor force	640	59.3	$200,000 or more	16	1.5
Civilian labor force	640	59.3	Median household income (dollars)	37,309	(X)
Employed	616	57.1

Own children under 6 years	168	100.0	With earnings	878	80.8
All parents in family in labor force	121	72.0	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	49,145	(X)
			With Social Security income	322	29.6
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	10,803	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	1,427	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	20	1.8
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	1,065	74.6	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	307	21.5	(dollars)	4,665	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	25	2.3
Walked	29	2.0	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	2,104	(X)
Other means	0	0.0	With retirement income	68	6.3
Worked at home	26	1.8	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	14,676	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	19.7	(X)
			Families	779	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	9	1.2
16 years and over	1,467	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	34	4.4
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	106	13.6
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	103	13.2
occupations	298	20.3	$35,000 to $49,999	196	25.2
Service occupations	150	10.2	$50,000 to $74,999	163	20.9
Sales and office occupations	337	23.0	$75,000 to $99,999	86	11.0
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	20	1.4	$100,000 to $149,999	44	5.6
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	22	2.8
occupations	241	16.4	$200,000 or more	16	2.1
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	45,685	(X)
moving occupations	421	28.7
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	19,039	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	26,907	(X)
and mining	41	2.8	Female full-time, year-round workers	20,059	(X)
Construction	150	10.2	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	430	29.3		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	34	2.3		below	below
Retail trade	186	12.7		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	53	3.6	Subject	level	level
Information	20	1.4	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	103	7.0	Families	25	3.2
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	16	4.5
strative, and waste management services	70	4.8	With related children under 5 years	16	12.1
Educational, health and social services	177	12.1
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	81	5.5	no husband present	0	0.0
Other services (except public administration)	101	6.9	With related children under 18 years	0	0.0
Public administration	21	1.4	With related children under 5 years	0	0.0
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	208	7.6
Private wage and salary workers	1,155	78.7	18 years and over	160	7.6
Government workers	143	9.7	65 years and over	62	16.4
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	48	7.8
business	169	11.5	Related children 5 to 17 years	34	7.3
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	110	28.2

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