High Country Council of Governments

Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	2,627	100.0	Households	1,355	100.0
In labor force	1,619	61.6	Less than $10,000	210	15.5
Civilian labor force	1,619	61.6	$10,000 to $14,999	71	5.2
Employed	1,566	59.6	$15,000 to $24,999	221	16.3
Unemployed	53	2.0	$25,000 to $34,999	252	18.6
Percent of civilian labor force	3.3	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	250	18.5
Armed Forces	0	0.0	$50,000 to $74,999	264	19.5
Not in labor force	1,008	38.4	$75,000 to $99,999	49	3.6
			$100,000 to $149,999	35	2.6
Females 16 years and over	1,361	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	3	0.2
In labor force	735	54.0	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Civilian labor force	735	54.0	Median household income (dollars)	31,418	(X)
Employed	725	53.3

Own children under 6 years	168	100.0	With earnings	974	71.9
All parents in family in labor force	108	64.3	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	38,464	(X)
			With Social Security income	483	35.6
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	9,382	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	1,549	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	85	6.3
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	1,152	74.4	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	340	21.9	(dollars)	5,795	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	13	0.8	With public assistance income	20	1.5
Walked	23	1.5	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	2,655	(X)
Other means	0	0.0	With retirement income	209	15.4
Worked at home	21	1.4	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	11,915	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	26.4	(X)
			Families	998	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	58	5.8
16 years and over	1,566	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	46	4.6
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	142	14.2
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	177	17.7
occupations	318	20.3	$35,000 to $49,999	229	22.9
Service occupations	271	17.3	$50,000 to $74,999	259	26.0
Sales and office occupations	292	18.6	$75,000 to $99,999	49	4.9
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	8	0.5	$100,000 to $149,999	35	3.5
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	3	0.3
occupations	197	12.6	$200,000 or more	0	0.0
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	37,405	(X)
moving occupations	480	30.7
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	15,264	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	26,133	(X)
and mining	31	2.0	Female full-time, year-round workers	19,352	(X)
Construction	101	6.4	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	548	35.0		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	20	1.3		below	below
Retail trade	127	8.1		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	69	4.4	Subject	level	level
Information	33	2.1	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	53	3.4	Families	87	8.7
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	61	13.9
strative, and waste management services	63	4.0	With related children under 5 years	9	8.3
Educational, health and social services	273	17.4
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	94	6.0	no husband present	19	23.2
Other services (except public administration)	65	4.2	With related children under 18 years	9	20.9
Public administration	89	5.7	With related children under 5 years	0	0.0
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	444	13.7
Private wage and salary workers	1,177	75.2	18 years and over	317	12.5
Government workers	287	18.3	65 years and over	87	16.9
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	124	17.6
business	102	6.5	Related children 5 to 17 years	115	20.9
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	165	41.7

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