|
|
State
|
Piscataquis
|
Sagadahoc
|
Somerset
|
Waldo
|
Washington
|
York
|
|
Population
below poverty (2003)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All
persons (% total population)
|
10.7%
|
13.0%
|
8.3%
|
14.3%
|
12.4%
|
16.1%
|
8.3%
|
|
Age
17 and below (% population 17 and below)
|
14.3%
|
20.1%
|
11.4%
|
20.6%
|
18.4%
|
23.1%
|
10.3%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Median
household income (2003)
|
$39,212
|
$30,780
|
$44,775
|
$32,079
|
$36,697
|
$28,311
|
$47,033
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Personal
Income by Source (2004)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wages
and self-employment
|
66.0%
|
58.0%
|
70.0%
|
64.0%
|
63.0%
|
54.0%
|
70.0%
|
|
Dividends,
interest and rent
|
15.0%
|
14.0%
|
14.0%
|
9.0%
|
15.0%
|
12.0%
|
14.0%
|
|
Transfer
payments
|
19.0%
|
28.0%
|
15.0%
|
27.0%
|
22.0%
|
34.0%
|
16.0%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unemployment
rate (2005)
|
4.8%
|
7.3%
|
4.3%
|
7.6%
|
5.3%
|
8.4%
|
4.1%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Educational
attainment (as % of pop. age 25 and over)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Less
than high school
|
14.6%
|
19.7%
|
12.0%
|
19.2%
|
15.4%
|
20.1%
|
13.5%
|
|
High
school
|
36.2%
|
43.7%
|
35.8%
|
45.3%
|
38.8%
|
41.9%
|
35.0%
|
|
Some
college, no degree
|
19.0%
|
16.6%
|
19.3%
|
17.3%
|
17.0%
|
17.8%
|
20.4%
|
|
Associate
degree
|
7.4%
|
6.7%
|
7.9%
|
6.4%
|
6.5%
|
5.5%
|
8.2%
|
|
Bachelor’s
or higher
|
22.9%
|
13.3%
|
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