High Country Council of Governments

Subject	Number	Percent	Subject	Number	Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	1,240	100.0	Households	635	100.0
In labor force	730	58.9	Less than $10,000	66	10.4
Civilian labor force	728	58.7	$10,000 to $14,999	43	6.8
Employed	683	55.1	$15,000 to $24,999	100	15.7
Unemployed	45	3.6	$25,000 to $34,999	141	22.2
Percent of civilian labor force	6.2	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	117	18.4
Armed Forces	2	0.2	$50,000 to $74,999	112	17.6
Not in labor force	510	41.1	$75,000 to $99,999	36	5.7
			$100,000 to $149,999	11	1.7
Females 16 years and over	629	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
In labor force	326	51.8	$200,000 or more	9	1.4
Civilian labor force	324	51.5	Median household income (dollars)	32,679	(X)
Employed	294	46.7

Own children under 6 years	97	100.0	With earnings	474	74.6
All parents in family in labor force	39	40.2	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	42,145	(X)
			With Social Security income	206	32.4
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	8,897	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	662	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	45	7.1
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	534	80.7	Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	108	16.3	(dollars)	5,598	(X)
Public transportation (including taxicab)	0	0.0	With public assistance income	9	1.4
Walked	6	0.9	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	956	(X)
Other means	7	1.1	With retirement income	110	17.3
Worked at home	7	1.1	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	11,892	(X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	31.7	(X)
			Families	520	100.0
Employed civilian population			Less than $10,000	36	6.9
16 years and over	683	100.0	$10,000 to $14,999	28	5.4
OCCUPATION			$15,000 to $24,999	79	15.2
Management, professional, and related			$25,000 to $34,999	126	24.2
occupations	144	21.1	$35,000 to $49,999	106	20.4
Service occupations	107	15.7	$50,000 to $74,999	102	19.6
Sales and office occupations	109	16.0	$75,000 to $99,999	23	4.4
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	5	0.7	$100,000 to $149,999	11	2.1
Construction, extraction, and maintenance			150,000 to $199,999	0	0.0
occupations	131	19.2	$200,000 or more	9	1.7
Production, transportation, and material			Median family income (dollars)	34,423	(X)
moving occupations	187	27.4
			Per capita income (dollars)¹	15,576	(X)
INDUSTRY			*Median earnings (dollars):*
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting			Male full-time, year-round workers	29,128	(X)
and mining	22	3.2	Female full-time, year-round workers	24,306	(X)
Construction	101	14.8	______________________	_______	_______
Manufacturing	222	32.5		Number	Percent
Wholesale trade	7	1.0		below	below
Retail trade	44	6.4		poverty	poverty
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	30	4.4	Subject	level	level
Information	7	1.0	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental			POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
and leasing	14	2.0	Families	49	9.4
Professional, scientific, management, admini-			With related children under 18 years	29	13.1
strative, and waste management services	39	5.7	With related children under 5 years	10	14.1
Educational, health and social services	117	17.1
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation			Families with female householder,
and food services	32	4.7	no husband present	16	28.1
Other services (except public administration)	17	2.5	With related children under 18 years	16	55.2
Public administration	31	4.5	With related children under 5 years	10	55.6
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	193	12.2
Private wage and salary workers	543	79.5	18 years and over	124	10.4
Government workers	94	13.8	65 years and over	35	16.9
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated			Related children under 18 years	69	17.7
business	46	6.7	Related children 5 to 17 years	61	19.8
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	40	26.3

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