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Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	859	100.0	Households	407	100.0
In labor force	577	67.2	Less than $10,000	55	13.5
Civilian labor force	577	67.2	$10,000 to $14,999	47	11.5
Employed	557	64.8	$15,000 to $24,999	21	5.2
Unemployed	20	2.3	$25,000 to $34,999	47	11.5
Percent of civilian labor force	3.5	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	102	25.1
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	71	17.4
Not in labor force	282	32.8	$75,000 to $99,999	34	8.4
			$100,000 to $149,999	14	3.4
Females 16 years and over	420	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	16	3.9
In labor force	238	56.7	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Civilian labor force	238	56.7	Median household income (dollars)	39,135	(X)
Employed	226	53.8

Own children under 6 years	59	100.0	With earnings	329	80.8
All parents in family in labor force	40	67.8	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	48,709	(X)
			With Social Security income	103	25.3
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	9,764	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	557	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	31	7.6
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	445	79.9	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	105	18.9	(dollars)	4,397	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	0	0.0
Walked	7	1.3	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	N/A	(X)
Other means	0	0.0	With retirement income	40	9.8
Worked at home	0	0.0	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	6,835	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	27.5	(X)
			Families	342	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	13	3.8
16 years and over	557	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	47	13.7
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	15	4.4
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	47	13.7
occupations	108	19.4	$35,000 to $49,999	85	24.9
Service occupations	37	6.6	$50,000 to $74,999	71	20.8
Sales and office occupations	126	22.6	$75,000 to $99,999	34	9.9
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	43	7.7	$100,000 to $149,999	14	4.1
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	16	4.7
occupations	80	14.4	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	42,833	(X)
moving occupations	163	29.3
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	18,043	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	31,587	(X)
and mining	59	10.6	Female full-time, year-round workers	21,900	(X)
Construction	54	9.7	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	122	21.9		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	0	0.0		below	below
Retail trade	106	19.0		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	24	4.3	Subject	level	level
Information	15	2.7	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	41	7.4	Families	22	6.4
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	9	6.6
strative, and waste management services	17	3.1	With related children under 5 years	0	0.0
Educational, health and social services	46	8.3
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	26	4.7	no husband present	7	17.9
Other services (except public administration)	32	5.7	With related children under 18 years	0	0.0
Public administration	15	2.7	With related children under 5 years	0	N/A
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	97	9.2
Private wage and salary workers	430	77.2	18 years and over	78	9.5
Government workers	56	10.1	65 years and over	41	22.8
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	19	8.0
business	47	8.4	Related children 5 to 17 years	19	9.6
Unpaid family workers	24	4.3	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	35	53.8

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