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• Over ten years Benton County Local Regular Property Taxes (home taxes) went up 129.7%! An anual growth rate of 8.7%, (blue line).
  
  
• Benton County is one of 39 counties in Washington. It is part of the Richland-Kennewick-Pasco Metropolitan Area. Its 2000 population of 143,055 ranked 10th in the State.
  Benton County Per Capita Personal Income (PCPI)
  Over the past 10 years county PCPI went up an average of 3.6% each year. State wide PCPI rose 4.5%, 4.2% nation wide.
  The PCPI was $17,928 in 1990 ranking 9th in the State.
  By 2000, the PCPI was $$25,624 ranking 9th in the State, 82% of the State average of $31,230, 87% of the national average of $29,469.
• Benton County Total Personal Income (TPI)
  Over the past 10 years the average annual growth rate of TPI was 6.1%. The average annual growth rate for the State was 6.5%, 5.5% nation wide.
  In 1990, the TPI was $2,036,270* ranking 10th in the State.
  By 2000, TPI was $3,665,587* ranking 10th in the State, 2% 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 72.4% of TPI in 1990. By 2000, earnings were 70% of TPI. Dividends, interest, and rent were 16.2% (compared with 16.2% in 1990); and transfer payments were 13.8% (compared with 11.4% in 1990).
  From 1990 to 2000, earnings increased on average 5.7% each year; dividends, interest, and rent increased on average 6.1%; and transfer payments increased on average 8.2%.

• EARNINGS BY INDUSTRY
  Earnings of persons employed in Benton County increased from $1,573,847* in 1990 to $2,672,905* in 2000, an average annual growth rate of 5.4%.
  The largest industries in 2000 were services, 31.0% of earnings; transportation and public utilities, 20.2%; state and local government, 14.3%.
  In 1990, the largest industries were nondurable goods manufacturing, 30.8% of earnings; services, 25.3%; and state and local government, 15.0%.
  Of the industries that accounted for at least 5% of earnings in 2000, the slowest growing from 1990 to 2000 was nondurable goods manufacturing which decreased at an average annual rate of 9.9%; the fastest was transportation and public utilities which increased at an average annual rate of 33%.

* All 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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Port Townsend WA 98368
Phone: 360-385-0786
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