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GARFIELD
COUNTY
LOCAL REGULAR PROPERTY TAXES FROM 1991 to 2001
- In ten years Garfield County Local Regular Property
Taxes (home taxes) went up 42.1%. An annual growth rate of 3.6%,
(blue line).
- Garfield County is one of 39
counties in Washington State. It is not part of a Metropolitan Area. Its 2000
population of 2,391 ranked 39th in the State.
Garfield County Per
Capita Personal Income (PCPI)
Over the past 10 years
county PCPI went up an average of 2.1% each year. State wide PCPI rose 4.5%,
4.2% nation wide.
The PCPI was $17,790 in 1990 ranking 13th in the
State.
By 2000, the PCPI was $21,903 ranking 24th in the State, 70% of the
State average of $31,230, 74% of the national average of $29,469.
- Garfield County Total Personal Income
(TPI)
Over the past 10 years the average annual growth
rate of TPI was 2.7%. The average annual growth rate for the State was 6.5%,
5.5% nation wide.
In 1990, the TPI was $39,993* ranking 39th in the
State.
By 2000, TPI was $52,369* ranking 39th in the State, 0% 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 52.5% of
TPI in 1990. By 2000, earnings were 47.4% of TPI. Dividends, interest, and rent
were 31.2% (compared with 30.8% in 1990); and transfer payments were 21.4%
(compared with 16.7% in 1990).
From 1990 to 2000, earnings increased on
average 1.7% each year; dividends, interest, and rent increased on average
2.8%; and transfer payments increased on average 5.3%.
- EARNINGS BY INDUSTRY
Earnings of persons employed in Garfield County increased from
$22,236* in 1990 to $27,705* in 2000, an average annual growth rate of
2.2%.
The largest industries in 2000 were state and local government, 35.4%
of earnings; federal civilian government, 25.5%; and wholesale trade,
16.1%.
In 1990, the largest industries were farm, 33.3% of earnings; state
and local government, 21.1%; and federal civilian government, 15.4%.
Of the
industries that accounted for at least 5% of earnings in 2000, the slowest
growing from 1990 to 2000 was retail trade, 6.1% which increased at an average
annual rate of 3.2%; the fastest was services which increased at an average
annual rate of 10.1%.
* 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
Anonymous Citizens for Tax Sanity
409 Q St.
Port Townsend
WA 98368
Phone: 360-385-0786
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