• Over ten years Asotin County Local Regular Property Taxes (home taxes) went up 109.2%, or 7.7%, (blue line) every year.
  
  
• Asotin County is one of 39 counties in Washington State. It is not part of a Metropolitan Area. Its 2000 population of 20,569 ranked 29th in the State.
• Asotin County Per Capita Personal Income (PCPI)
  Over the past 10 years county PCPI went up an average of 4.7% each year. State wide PCPI rose 4.5%, 4.2% nation wide.
  The PCPI was $14,941 in 1990 ranking 29th in the State.
  By 2000, the PCPI was $23,751 ranking 16th in the State, 76% of the State average of $31,230, 81% of the national average of $29,469.
• Asotin CountyTotal Personal Income (TPI)
  Over the past 10 years the average annual growth rate of TPI was 6.4%. The average annual growth rate for the State was 6.5%, 5.5% nation wide.
  In 1990, the TPI was $263,947 * ranking 29th in the State.
  By 2000, TPI was $488,537 * ranking 29th in the State, 0.3% of the State total.
• COMPONENTS OF TOTAL PERSONAL INCOME (TPI)
  TPI includes the earnings (wages and salaries, other labor income, and proprietors's income); dividends, interest, and rent; and transfer payments received by county residents.
  Earnings were 58.5% of TPI in 1990. By 2000, earnings were 57.0% of TPI. Dividends, interest, and rent were 21.9% (compared with 21.1% in 1990); and transfer payments were 21.1% (compared with 20.5% in 1990).
  From 1990 to 2000, earnings increased on average 6.1% each year; dividends, interest, and rent increased on average 6.8%; and transfer payments increased on average 6.7%.

• EARNINGS BY INDUSTRY
  Earnings of persons employed in Asotin County increased from $86,699* in 1990 to $174,687* in 2000, an average annual growth rate of 7.3%.
  The largest industries in 2000 were services, 31.7% of earnings; state and local government, 16.8%; retail trade, 15.1%.
  In 1990, the largest industries were services, 28.5% of earnings; state and local government, 20.7%; and retail trade, 17.5%.
  Of the industries that accounted for at least 5% of earnings in 2000, the slowest growing from 1990 to 2000 was state and local government, which increased at an average annual rate of 5.1%; the fastest was transportation and public utilities.

* All county income estimates with the exception of PCPI are in thousands of dollars.
County information furnished by Regional Economic Information System Bureau of Economic Analysis. (http://www.bea.gov/bea/regional/bearfacts/bf10/53/index.htm)
** Chart furnished by Washington State Office of Program Research.
(http://www.leg.wa.gov/house/opr/)

ACTS
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