High Country Council of Governments

Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	1,314	100.0	Households	688	100.0
In labor force	663	50.5	Less than $10,000	104	15.1
Civilian labor force	663	50.5	$10,000 to $14,999	67	9.7
Employed	656	49.9	$15,000 to $24,999	146	21.2
Unemployed	7	0.5	$25,000 to $34,999	112	16.3
Percent of civilian labor force	1.1	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	106	15.4
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	82	11.9
Not in labor force	651	49.5	$75,000 to $99,999	37	5.4
			$100,000 to $149,999	27	3.9
Females 16 years and over	700	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	7	1.0
In labor force	334	47.7	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Civilian labor force	334	47.7	Median household income (dollars)	27,688	(X)
Employed	334	47.7

Own children under 6 years	100	100.0	With earnings	442	64.2
All parents in family in labor force	26	26.0	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	38,383	(X)
			With Social Security income	247	35.9
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	9,694	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	656	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	34	4.9
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	515	78.5	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	98	14.9	(dollars)	5,326	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	27	3.9
Walked	11	1.7	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	2,063	(X)
Other means	0	0.0	With retirement income	148	21.5
Worked at home	32	4.9	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	12,052	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	28.7	(X)
			Families	467	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	28	6.0
16 years and over	656	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	43	9.2
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	74	15.8
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	77	16.5
occupations	229	34.9	$35,000 to $49,999	97	20.8
Service occupations	116	17.7	$50,000 to $74,999	77	16.5
Sales and office occupations	113	17.2	$75,000 to $99,999	37	7.9
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	8	1.2	$100,000 to $149,999	27	5.8
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	7	1.5
occupations	68	10.4	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	35,991	(X)
moving occupations	122	18.6
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	14,358	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	29,271	(X)
and mining	20	3.0	Female full-time, year-round workers	21,815	(X)
Construction	25	3.8	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	146	22.3		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	0	0.0		below	below
Retail trade	68	10.4		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	17	2.6	Subject	level	level
Information	12	1.8	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	21	3.2	Families	42	9.0
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	29	15.1
strative, and waste management services	35	5.3	With related children under 5 years	13	20.6
Educational, health and social services	186	28.4
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	52	7.9	no husband present	0	0.0
Other services (except public administration)	54	8.2	With related children under 18 years	0	0.0
Public administration	20	3.0	With related children under 5 years	0	N/A
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	261	15.8
Private wage and salary workers	475	72.4	18 years and over	161	12.8
Government workers	108	16.5	65 years and over	53	15.1
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	100	25.3
business	73	11.1	Related children 5 to 17 years	79	25.6
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	70	29.9

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