|
|
State
|
Kennebec
|
Knox
|
Lincoln
|
Oxford
|
Penobscot
|
|
Population
below poverty (2003)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All
persons (% total population)
|
10.7%
|
11.3%
|
10.5%
|
9.8%
|
11.8%
|
12.5%
|
|
Age
17 and below (% population 17 and below)
|
14.3%
|
15.1%
|
14.7%
|
13.8%
|
17.4%
|
16.4%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Median
household income (2003)
|
$39,212
|
$38,458
|
$39,896
|
$40,791
|
$35,205
|
$36,485
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Personal
Income by Source (2004)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wages
and self-employment
|
66.0%
|
65.0%
|
59.0%
|
56.0%
|
59.0%
|
66.0%
|
|
Dividends,
interest and rent
|
15.0%
|
14.0%
|
24.0%
|
26.0%
|
15.0%
|
13.0%
|
|
transfer
payments
|
19.0%
|
21.0%
|
17.0%
|
18.0%
|
26.0%
|
22.0%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unemployment
rate (2005)
|
4.8%
|
5.0%
|
4.1%
|
4.3%
|
5.7%
|
5.1%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Educational
attainment (as % of pop. age 25 and over)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Less
than high school
|
14.6%
|
14.8%
|
12.5%
|
12.1%
|
17.7%
|
14.3%
|
|
High
school
|
36.2%
|
37.7%
|
36.4%
|
35.1%
|
43.0%
|
38.4%
|
|
Some
college, no degree
|
19.0%
|
19.1%
|
18.9%
|
19.6%
|
17.7%
|
19.2%
|
|
Associate
degree
|
7.4%
|
7.8%
|
5.9%
|
6.6%
|
6.0%
|
7.8%
|
|
Bachelor’s
or higher
|
22.9%
|
20.7%
|
26.6%
|
26.6%
|
15.7%
|
20.3%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Receiving
food stamps (FY04-05)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cases
(% all households)
|
15.7%
|
17.3%
|
13.0%
|
10.5%
|
20.1%
|
18.0%
|
|
