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State
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Androscoggin
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Aroostook
|
Cumberland
|
Franklin
|
Hancock
|
|
Population
below poverty (2003)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All
persons (% total population)
|
10.7%
|
11.5%
|
14.3%
|
8.4%
|
12.6%
|
9.9%
|
|
Age
17 and below (% population 17 and below)
|
14.3%
|
15.5%
|
20.1%
|
10.3%
|
16.4%
|
14.2%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Median
household income (2003)
|
$39,212
|
$38,054
|
$31,463
|
$47,669
|
$33,936
|
$37,924
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Personal
Income by Source (2004)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wages
and self- employment
|
66.0%
|
67.0%
|
58.0%
|
69.0%
|
62.0%
|
60.0%
|
|
Dividends,
interest and rent
|
15.0%
|
11.0%
|
13.0%
|
18.0%
|
14.0%
|
22.0%
|
|
Transfer
payments
|
19.0%
|
22.0%
|
29.0%
|
14.0%
|
24.0%
|
18.0%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unemployment
rate (2005)
|
4.8%
|
4.9%
|
6.7%
|
3.6%
|
5.7%
|
5.5%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Educational
attainment (as % of pop. age 25 and over)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Less
than high school
|
14.6%
|
20.2%
|
23.1%
|
9.9%
|
14.8%
|
12.2%
|
|
High
School
|
36.2%
|
40.2%
|
38.5%
|
28.2%
|
41.0%
|
34.4%
|
|
Some
college, no degree
|
19.0%
|
18.6%
|
17.3%
|
19.5%
|
17.6%
|
19.5%
|
|
Associate
degree
|
7.4%
|
6.7%
|
6.5%
|
8.2%
|
5.7%
|
|
