KITSAP COUNTY
LOCAL
REGULAR PROPERTY TAXES FROM 1991 to 2001
- In ten years Kitsap County Local Regular Property Taxes
(home taxes) went up 145.7%! An annual growth rate of 9.4%,
(blue line).
- Kitsap County is one of 39 counties in
Washington. It is part of the Bremerton Metropolitan Area. Its 2000 population
of 232,541 ranked 6th in the State.
Kitsap County Per Capita
Personal Income (PCPI)
Over the past 10 years county
PCPI went up an average of 2.9% each year. State wide PCPI rose 4.5%, 4.2%
nation wide.
The PCPI was $19,101 in 1990 ranking 4th in the State.
By
2000, the PCPI was $25,443 ranking 12th in the State, 81% of the State average
of $31,230, 86% of the national average of $29,469.
- Kitsap County Total Personal Income (TPI)
Over the past 10 years the average annual growth rate of TPI was
4.9%. The average annual growth rate for the State was 6.5%, 5.5% nation
wide.
In 1990, the TPI was $3,665,078* ranking 6th in the State.
By 2000,
TPI was $5,916,482* ranking 6th in the State, 3.2% 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 71.6% of TPI in 1990. By 2000,
earnings were 65.5% of TPI. Dividends, interest, and rent were 21.8% (compared
with 19.1% in 1990); and transfer payments were 12.8% (compared with 9.3% in
1990).
From 1990 to 2000, earnings increased on average 4.0% each year;
dividends, interest, and rent increased on average 6.3%; and transfer payments
increased on average 8.3%.
- EARNINGS BY INDUSTRY
Earnings of
persons employed in Kitsap County increased from $2,507,360* in 1990 to
$3,777,945* in 2000, an average annual growth rate of 4.2%.
The largest
industries in 2000 were federal civilian government, 26.9% of earnings;
services, 20.5%; and military, 16.3%.
In 1990, the largest industries were
federal civilian government, 35.1% of earnings; military, 18.9%; and services,
15.4%.
Of the industries that accounted for at least 5% of earnings in 2000,
the slowest growing from 1990 to 2000 was federal civilian government which
increased at an average annual rate of 1.5%; the fastest was services which
increased at an average annual rate of 7.2%.
* 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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