Appendix table 1 -- Selected population, income, and employment
characteristics for counties, by county type(1)
Item Unit Farming Mfg Service Retire
----------------- ---------- ------- ------- -------- --------
Counties Number(2) 556 506 323 190
Nonmetro Percent(3) 9.1 31.0 18.8 10.2
population, 1990
Population growth, Percent(4) -6.9 1.5 6.3 22.7
1980-90
Persons in Percent(4) 18.9 16.9 16.5 16.3
poverty, 1990
Net migration Percent(4) -11.0 -3.1 1.3 18.3
rate, 1980-90
Persons per square Number(4) 11.8 59.2 43.4 38.3
mile, 1990
Per capita income, Dollars(4) 14,743 13,081 14,384 13,698
1989
Per capita income Percent(4) 11.6 13.2 10.6 12.6
growth, 1979-89
Median family Dollars(4) 24,394 26,936 27,677 26,657
income, 1989
Median family Percent(4) -1.6 .7 -.1 4.8
income growth,
1979-89
Total earnings, Dollars(5) 39,170,938 145,575,789 87,491,170 41,654,450
1989
Total earnings Percent(3) -6.1 6.0 8.5 25.9
growth, 1979-89
Total jobs, 1989 Number(6) 2,109,406 7,682,247 4,854,535 2,366,293
Total jobs growth, Percent(3) -1.2 10.5 17.8 34.3
1979-89
Earnings per job, Dollars(3) 18,570 18,950 18,023 17,603
1989
Earnings per job Percent(3) -5.0 -4.0 -8.0 -6.2
growth, 1979-89
Unemployment rate, Percent(4) 5.5 6.8 6.2 6.6
1989
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Appendix table 1 -- Selected population, income, and employment characteristics for
counties, by county type
Item Unit Federal Poverty Nonmetro Metro
Lands
----------------- ---------- --------- ------- -------- ----------
Counties Number(2) 270 535 2,276 813
Nonmetro Percent(3) 10.7 18.8 100.0 --
population, 1990
Population growth, Percent(4) 9.0 -1.2 .6 14.5
1980-90
Persons in Percent(4) 15.8 29.1 18.3 12.2
poverty, 1990
Net migration Percent(4) .1 -7.0 -4.4 6.8
rate, 1980-90
Persons per square Number(4) 15.4 29.7 36.3 652.3
mile, 1990
Per capita income, Dollars(4) 13,807 11,056 13,580 16,399
1989
Per capita income Percent(4) 8.3 11.6 10.4 15.1
growth, 1979-89
Median family Dollars(4) 27,923 20,731 25,949 35,072
income, 1989
Median family Percent(4) -1.0 -2.3 -1.3 4.7
income growth,
1979-89
Total earnings, Dollars(5) 50,310,088 65,709,312 441,726,020 2,746,177,980
1989
Total earnings Percent(3) 6.8 .1 3.4 24.4
growth, 1979-89
Total jobs, 1989 Number(6) 2,645,303 3,847,770 23,950,110 111,392,590
Total jobs growth, Percent(3) 19.4 5.7 10.6 23.8
1979-89
Earnings per job, Dollars(3) 19,019 17,077 18,444 24,653
1989
Earnings per job Percent(3) -10.6 -5.2 -6.5 .5
growth, 1979-89
Unemployment rate, Percent(4) 7.1 8.5 6.6 5.4
1989
Notes
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(1) Additional demographic and economic statistics can be found in P.J. Cook and
K.L. Mizer, The Revised ERS Copunty Typology: An Overview, RDRR-89, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Rural Economy Devision,
December 1994.
(2) Table shows 2,276 nonmetro counties, whereas 2,288 are cited in the report.
The difference is due to the need to standardize the number of counties for
comparisons over time.
(3) Values are calculated from aggregated data.
(4) Values are unweighted county averages.
(5) Values are aggregated dollars (in thousands).
(6) Values are aggregated data
Source: all measures were calculated by ERS using data from the Bureau of Economic
Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Bureau of the Census
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