High Country Council of Governments

Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	972	100.0	Households	449	100.0
In labor force	666	68.5	Less than $10,000	52	11.6
Civilian labor force	666	68.5	$10,000 to $14,999	7	1.6
Employed	657	67.6	$15,000 to $24,999	66	14.7
Unemployed	9	0.9	$25,000 to $34,999	96	21.4
Percent of civilian labor force	1.4	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	89	19.8
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	92	20.5
Not in labor force	306	31.5	$75,000 to $99,999	21	4.7
			$100,000 to $149,999	26	5.8
Females 16 years and over	499	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
In labor force	337	67.5	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Civilian labor force	337	67.5	Median household income (dollars)	35,380	(X)
Employed	328	65.7

Own children under 6 years	118	100.0	With earnings	384	85.5
All parents in family in labor force	94	79.7	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	40,708	(X)
			With Social Security income	105	23.4
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	10,457	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	639	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	28	6.2
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	492	77.0	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	137	21.4	(dollars)	9,486	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	15	3.3
Walked	0	0.0	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	2,327	(X)
Other means	0	0.0	With retirement income	46	10.2
Worked at home	10	1.6	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	22,867	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	33.0	(X)
			Families	339	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	17	5.0
16 years and over	657	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	10	2.9
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	42	12.4
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	63	18.6
occupations	74	11.3	$35,000 to $49,999	83	24.5
Service occupations	65	9.9	$50,000 to $74,999	77	22.7
Sales and office occupations	181	27.5	$75,000 to $99,999	21	6.2
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	14	2.1	$100,000 to $149,999	26	7.7
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
occupations	84	12.8	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	41,328	(X)
moving occupations	239	36.4
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	16,103	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	25,385	(X)
and mining	32	4.9	Female full-time, year-round workers	18,750	(X)
Construction	73	11.1	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	176	26.8		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	41	6.2		below	below
Retail trade	129	19.6		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	13	2.0	Subject	level	level
Information	14	2.1	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	16	2.4	Families	22	6.5
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	22	15.6
strative, and waste management services	31	4.7	With related children under 5 years	9	12.7
Educational, health and social services	74	11.3
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	47	7.2	no husband present	13	37.1
Other services (except public administration)	0	0.0	With related children under 18 years	13	81.3
Public administration	11	1.7	With related children under 5 years	9	75.0
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	103	8.8
Private wage and salary workers	545	83.0	18 years and over	74	7.8
Government workers	81	12.3	65 years and over	24	14.7
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	29	12.5
business	31	4.7	Related children 5 to 17 years	17	13.4
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	40	26.8

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