High Country Council of Governments

Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	888	100.0	Households	435	100.0
In labor force	484	54.5	Less than $10,000	60	13.8
Civilian labor force	484	54.5	$10,000 to $14,999	53	12.2
Employed	445	50.1	$15,000 to $24,999	77	17.7
Unemployed	39	4.4	$25,000 to $34,999	34	7.8
Percent of civilian labor force	8.1	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	111	25.5
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	91	20.9
Not in labor force	404	45.5	$75,000 to $99,999	9	2.1
			$100,000 to $149,999	0	0.0
Females 16 years and over	457	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
In labor force	200	43.8	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Civilian labor force	200	43.8	Median household income (dollars)	30,875	(X)
Employed	161	35.2

Own children under 6 years	131	100.0	With earnings	333	76.6
All parents in family in labor force	112	85.5	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	31,189	(X)
			With Social Security income	165	37.9
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	8,807	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	445	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	26	6.0
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	266	59.8	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	133	29.9	(dollars)	4,100	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	8	1.8
Walked	0	0.0	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	250	(X)
Other means	10	2.2	With retirement income	43	9.9
Worked at home	36	8.1	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	22,033	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	38.9	(X)
			Families	326	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	35	10.7
16 years and over	445	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	24	7.4
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	52	16.0
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	34	10.4
occupations	67	15.1	$35,000 to $49,999	81	24.8
Service occupations	63	14.2	$50,000 to $74,999	91	27.9
Sales and office occupations	88	19.8	$75,000 to $99,999	9	2.8
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	7	1.6	$100,000 to $149,999	0	0.0
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
occupations	51	11.5	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	37,685	(X)
moving occupations	169	38.0
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	12,521	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	21,276	(X)
and mining	26	5.8	Female full-time, year-round workers	24,444	(X)
Construction	31	7.0	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	145	32.6		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	28	6.3		below	below
Retail trade	68	15.3		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	18	4.0	Subject	level	level
Information	0	0.0	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	7	1.6	Families	59	18.1
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	32	20.5
strative, and waste management services	15	3.4	With related children under 5 years	8	8.1
Educational, health and social services	60	13.5
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	19	4.3	no husband present	17	54.8
Other services (except public administration)	28	6.3	With related children under 18 years	8	61.5
Public administration	0	0.0	With related children under 5 years	0	0.0
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	219	18.4
Private wage and salary workers	328	73.7	18 years and over	151	17.3
Government workers	41	9.2	65 years and over	38	18.2
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	68	21.7
business	76	17.1	Related children 5 to 17 years	59	26.7
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	29	22.5

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