LEWIS COUNTY
LOCAL
REGULAR PROPERTY TAXES FROM 1991 to 2001
- In ten years Lewis County Local Regular Property Taxes
(home taxes) went up 81.4%! An annual growth rate of 6.1%,
(blue line).
- Lewis County: is one of 39 counties in
Washington. It is not part of a Metropolitan Area. Its 2000 population of
68,662 ranked 15th in the State.
Lewis County Per Capita Personal
Income (PCPI)
Over the past 10 years county PCPI went up
an average of 3.4% each year. State wide PCPI rose 4.5%, 4.2% nation
wide.
The PCPI was $15,307 in 1990 ranking 25th in the State.
By 2000,
the PCPI was $21,316 ranking 28th in the State, 68% of the State average of
$31,230, 72% of the national average of $29,469.
- Lewis County Total Personal Income (TPI)
Over
the past 10 years the average annual growth rate of TPI was 4.8%. The average
annual growth rate for the State was 6.5%, 5.5% nation wide.
In 1990, the
TPI was $911,487* ranking 17th in the State.
By 2000, TPI was $1,463,611*
ranking 18th in the State, 0.8% 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 Lewis County were 60.7% of TPI in
1990. By 2000, earnings were 57.5% of TPI. Dividends, interest, and rent were
19.4% (compared with 20.0% in 1990); and transfer payments were 23.1% (compared
with 19.2% in 1990).
From 1990 to 2000, earnings increased on average 4.3%
each year; dividends, interest, and rent increased on average 4.5%; and
transfer payments increased on average 6.8%.
- EARNINGS BY INDUSTRY
Earnings of
persons employed in Lewis County increased from $600,695* in 1990 to $906,606*
in 2000, an average annual growth rate of 4.2%.
The largest industries in
2000 were services, 18.4% of earnings; state and local government, 17.0%; and
retail trade, 15.7%.
In 1990, the largest industries were durable goods
manufacturing, 16.6% of earnings; services, 15.8%; and state and local
government, 15.6%.
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 2.8%; the fastest
was retail trade which increased at an average annual rate of 6.9%.
* 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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