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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	1,381	100.0	Households	700	100.0
In labor force	701	50.8	Less than $10,000	108	15.4
Civilian labor force	701	50.8	$10,000 to $14,999	64	9.1
Employed	677	49.0	$15,000 to $24,999	88	12.6
Unemployed	24	1.7	$25,000 to $34,999	84	12.0
Percent of civilian labor force	3.4	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	159	22.7
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	86	12.3
Not in labor force	680	49.2	$75,000 to $99,999	51	7.3
			$100,000 to $149,999	60	8.6
Females 16 years and over	690	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
In labor force	302	43.8	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Civilian labor force	302	43.8	Median household income (dollars)	35,469	(X)
Employed	295	42.8

Own children under 6 years	71	100.0	With earnings	477	68.1
All parents in family in labor force	30	42.3	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	42,010	(X)
			With Social Security income	249	35.6
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	11,655	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	656	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	62	8.9
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	530	80.8	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	66	10.1	(dollars)	3,944	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	5	0.7
Walked	8	1.2	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	7,000	(X)
Other means	0	0.0	With retirement income	139	19.9
Worked at home	52	7.9	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	14,272	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	30.6	(X)
			Families	528	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	26	4.9
16 years and over	677	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	39	7.4
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	37	7.0
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	89	16.9
occupations	200	29.5	$35,000 to $49,999	147	27.8
Service occupations	77	11.4	$50,000 to $74,999	86	16.3
Sales and office occupations	148	21.9	$75,000 to $99,999	51	9.7
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	22	3.2	$100,000 to $149,999	53	10.0
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
occupations	56	8.3	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	43,750	(X)
moving occupations	174	25.7
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	16,627	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	31,034	(X)
and mining	98	14.5	Female full-time, year-round workers	21,981	(X)
Construction	57	8.4	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	195	28.8		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	19	2.8		below	below
Retail trade	69	10.2		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	13	1.9	Subject	level	level
Information	10	1.5	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	47	6.9	Families	41	7.8
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	28	13.0
strative, and waste management services	19	2.8	With related children under 5 years	0	0.0
Educational, health and social services	71	10.5
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	41	6.1	no husband present	11	18.3
Other services (except public administration)	22	3.2	With related children under 18 years	11	45.8
Public administration	16	2.4	With related children under 5 years	0	N/A
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	211	12.6
Private wage and salary workers	498	73.6	18 years and over	175	13.1
Government workers	103	15.2	65 years and over	47	17.3
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	36	10.7
business	76	11.2	Related children 5 to 17 years	36	13.3
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	102	48.8

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