KLICKITAT COUNTY
LOCAL
REGULAR PROPERTY TAXES FROM 1991 to 2001
- In ten years Klickitat County Local Regular Property Taxes
(home taxes) went up 79.9%! An annual growth rate of 6.0%,
(blue line).
- Klickitat County is one of 39 counties
in Washington. It is not part of a Metropolitan Area. Its 2000 population of
19,245 ranked 30th in the State.
Klickitat 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 $15,021 in 1990 ranking 28th in the State.
By
2000, the PCPI was $21,360 ranking 27th in the State, 68% of the State average
of $31,230, 72% of the national average of $29,469.
- Klickitat County Total Personal Income (TPI)
Over the past 10 years the average annual growth rate of TPI was
5.1%. The average annual growth rate for the State was 6.5%, 5.5% nation
wide.
In 1990, the TPI was $250,323* ranking 30th in the State.
By 2000,
TPI was $411,075* ranking 31th in the State, 0.2% 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 in Klickitat County were 58.4% of TPI
in 1990. By 2000, earnings were 53.7% of TPI. Dividends, interest, and rent
were 24.5% (compared with 20.9% in 1990); and transfer payments were 21.7%
(compared with 20.7% in 1990).
From 1990 to 2000, earnings increased on
average 4.2% each year; dividends, interest, and rent increased on average
6.8%; and transfer payments increased on average 5.6%.
- EARNINGS BY INDUSTRY
Earnings of
persons employed in Klickitat County increased from $162,902* in 1990 to
$234,925* in 2000, an average annual growth rate of 3.7%.
The largest
industries in 2000 were durable goods manufacturing, 25.4% of earnings; state
and local government, 21.0%; and transportation and public utilities,
13.6%.
In 1990, the largest industries were goods manufacturing, 37.4% of
earnings; state and local government, 17.4%; and transportation and public
utilities, 9.6%.
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 0.2%; the fastest
was construction which increased at an average annual rate of
12.4%.
* 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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