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• Over ten years Clallam County Local Regular Property Taxes (home taxes) went up 80.4%! An annual growth rate of 6.1%, (blue line).

• Clallam County is one of 39 counties in Washington. It is not part of a Metropolitan Area. Its 2000 population of 64,702 ranked 18th in the State.
• Clallam County Per Capita Personal Income (PCPI)
  Over the past 10 years county PCPI went up an average of 3.1% each year. State wide PCPI rose 4.5%, 4.2% nation wide.
  The PCPI was $17,849 in 1990 ranking 12th in the State.
  By 2000, the PCPI was $24,326 ranking 15th in the State, 78% of the State average of $31,230, 83% of the national average of $29,469.
• Clallam County Total Personal Income (TPI)
  Over the past 10 years the average annual growth rate of TPI was 4.5%. The average annual growth rate for the State was 6.5%, 5.5% nation wide.
  In 1990, the TPI was $1,008,899* ranking 15th in the State.
  By 2000, TPI was $1,573,934* ranking 15th in the State, 0.9% 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 50.0% of TPI in 1990. By 2000, earnings were 46.2% of TPI. Dividends, interest, and rent were 46.2% (compared with 50% in 1990); and transfer payments were 22.1% (compared with 18.1% in 1990).
  From 1990 to 2000, earnings increased on average 3.7% each year; dividends, interest, and rent increased on average 4.5%; and transfer payments increased on average 6.7%.

• EARNINGS BY INDUSTRY
  Earnings of persons employed in Clallam County increased from $536,729* in 1990 to $765,878* in 2000, an average annual growth rate of 3.6%.
  The largest industries in 2000 were state and local government, 24.5% of earnings; services, 22.8%; retail trade, 12.9%.
  In 1990, the largest industries were state and local government, 19.1% of earnings; services, 17.2%; durable goods manufacturing, 16.6%.
  Of the industries that accounted for at least 5% of earnings in 2000, the slowest growing from 1990 to 2000 was durable goods manufacturing, which decreased at an average annual rate of 5.3%; the fastest was services which increased at an average annual rate of 6.6%.

* 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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