High Country Council of Governments

Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	479	100.0	Households	241	100.0
In labor force	318	66.4	Less than $10,000	17	7.1
Civilian labor force	318	66.4	$10,000 to $14,999	3	1.2
Employed	309	64.5	$15,000 to $24,999	60	24.9
Unemployed	9	1.9	$25,000 to $34,999	43	17.8
Percent of civilian labor force	2.8	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	63	26.1
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	24	10.0
Not in labor force	161	33.6	$75,000 to $99,999	23	9.5
			$100,000 to $149,999	8	3.3
Females 16 years and over	250	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
In labor force	145	58.0	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Civilian labor force	145	58.0	Median household income (dollars)	34,609	(X)
Employed	136	54.4

Own children under 6 years	0	N/A	With earnings	207	85.9
All parents in family in labor force	0	N/A	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	37,842	(X)
			With Social Security income	82	34.0
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	7,630	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	309	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	18	7.5
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	206	66.7	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	97	31.4	(dollars)	5,283	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	10	4.1
Walked	0	0.0	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	6,000	(X)
Other means	0	0.0	With retirement income	12	5.0
Worked at home	6	1.9	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	5,283	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	36.2	(X)
			Families	173	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	0	0.0
16 years and over	309	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	3	1.7
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	31	17.9
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	29	16.8
occupations	88	28.5	$35,000 to $49,999	55	31.8
Service occupations	26	8.4	$50,000 to $74,999	24	13.9
Sales and office occupations	77	24.9	$75,000 to $99,999	23	13.3
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	8	2.6	$100,000 to $149,999	8	4.6
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
occupations	23	7.4	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	38,125	(X)
moving occupations	87	28.2
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	16,083	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	25,000	(X)
and mining	15	4.9	Female full-time, year-round workers	25,114	(X)
Construction	17	5.5	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	65	21.0		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	5	1.6		below	below
Retail trade	83	26.9		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	9	2.9	Subject	level	level
Information	9	2.9	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	0	0.0	Families	3	1.7
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	3	6.1
strative, and waste management services	37	12.0	With related children under 5 years	0	N/A
Educational, health and social services	27	8.7
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	14	4.5	no husband present	3	13.6
Other services (except public administration)	17	5.5	With related children under 18 years	3	100.0
Public administration	11	3.6	With related children under 5 years	0	N/A
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	23	4.0
Private wage and salary workers	274	88.7	18 years and over	19	4.0
Government workers	32	10.4	65 years and over	0	0.0
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	4	4.3
business	3	1.0	Related children 5 to 17 years	4	4.3
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	16	20.5

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