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• Over ten years Cowlitz County Local Regular Property Taxes (home taxes) went up 84.1%! An annual growth rate of 6.3%, (blue line).

• Cowlitz County is one of 39 counties in Washington. It is not part of a Metropolitan Area. Its 2000 population of 93,014 ranked 12th in the State.
  Cowlitz County Per Capita Personal Income (PCPI)
  Over the past 10 years county PCPI went up an average of 3.3% each year. State wide PCPI rose 4.5%, 4.2% nation wide.
  The PCPI was $16,984 in 1990 ranking 18th in the State.
  By 2000, the PCPI was $23,454 ranking 17th in the State, 75% of the State average of $31,230, 80% of the national average of $29,469.
• Cowlitz 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 $1,400,828* ranking 12th in the State.
  By 2000, TPI was $2,181,520* ranking 12th in the State, 1.2% 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 66.6% of TPI in 1990. By 2000, earnings were 63.0% of TPI. Dividends, interest, and rent were 17.7% (compared with 17.3% in 1990); and transfer payments were 19.3 % (compared with 16.0% in 1990).
  From 1990 to 2000, earnings increased on average 3.9% each year; dividends, interest, and rent increased on average 4.7%; and transfer payments increased on average 6.5%.

• EARNINGS BY INDUSTRY
  Earnings of persons employed in Cowlitz County increased from $1,046,279* in 1990 to $1,511,830* in 2000, an average annual growth rate of 3.7%.
  The largest industries in 2000 were services, 20.5%; nondurable goods manufacturing, 18.5%; and nondurable goods manufacturing, 13.7%.
  In 1990, the largest industries were nondurable goods manufacturing, 20.8% of earnings; durable goods manufacturing, 17.9%; and services, 14.6%.
  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 increased at an average annual rate of 1.0%; the fastest was services which increased at an average annual rate of 7.3%.

* 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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