Iowa state Economy Profile

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Iowa state Economy

According to the statistics on employment by occupation in Iowa, 21.76% of workers provide educational, health and social services. Six point six three percent of people provide Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services in Iowa. The percentage of people involved into professional, scientific, management, administrative, and waste management services in Iowa is as follows: six point zero five percent.

In Iowa government workers account for 13.65% of workers. Seventy-seven point seven five percent of workers comprise private wage and salary workers. Median household income in Iowa is equal to $39,469 while median family income is $48,005. The earnings of male full-time, year-round workers, in Iowa are $32,697. The amount of earnings of female full-time, year-round workers reaches twenty-four thousand, twenty-three dollars.

0.0 of families in Iowa are below poverty line (total population in Iowa is 2,926,324). There are 22,015 families with female householder, no husband present. The median age of a Iowa resident is thirty-six point six years old.

	Iowa	%, Iowa	United States
Population 16 years and over	2,281,274		217,168,077
In labor force	1,556,581	68.23%	63.92%
- Civilian labor force	1,554,722	68.15%	63.39%
- - Employed	1,489,816	65.31%	59.73%
- - Unemployed	64,906	2.85%	3.66%
- - - Percent of civilian labor force	4.2		5.8
- Armed Forces	1,859	0.08%	0.53%
Not in labor force	724,693	31.77%	36.08%
Females 16 years and over	1,176,877	51.59%	51.66%
In labor force	737,415	32.32%	29.72%
- Civilian labor force	737,165	32.31%	29.65%
- - Employed	709,154	31.09%	27.92%
Own children under 6 years	219,439	9.62%	10.05%
All parents in family in labor force	156,715		12,787,501
COMMUTING TO WORK
Workers 16 years and over	1,469,763		128,279,228
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	1,155,008	78.58%	75.7%
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	158,699	10.8%	12.19%
Public transportation (including taxicab)	15,021	1.02%	4.73%
Walked	58,088	3.95%	2.93%
Other means	13,163	0.9%	1.19%
Worked at home	69,784	4.75%	3.26%
Mean travel time to work (minutes)	18.5		25.5
Employed civilian population 16 years and over	1,489,816		129,721,512
OCCUPATION
Management, professional, and related occupations	466,436	31.31%	33.65%
Service occupations	219,837	14.76%	14.86%
Sales and office occupations	385,794	25.9%	26.69%
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	15,877	1.07%	0.73%
Construction, extraction, and maintenance occupations	132,530	8.9%	9.45%
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	269,342	18.08%	14.62%
INDUSTRY
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and mining	65,903	4.42%	1.87%
Construction	91,824	6.16%	6.78%
Manufacturing	253,444	17.01%	14.1%
Wholesale trade	53,267	3.58%	3.6%
Retail trade	179,381	12.04%	11.73%
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	73,170	4.91%	5.2%
Information	41,970	2.82%	3.08%
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental and leasing	100,395	6.74%	6.89%
Professional, scientific, management, administrative, and waste management services	90,157	6.05%	9.3%
Educational, health and social services	324,142	21.76%	19.92%
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services	98,819	6.63%	7.87%
Other services (except public administration)	66,286	4.45%	4.87%
Public administration	51,058	3.43%	4.79%
CLASS OF WORKER
Private wage and salary workers	1,158,392	77.75%	78.47%
Government workers	203,332	13.65%	14.59%
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business	121,579	8.16%	6.63%
Unpaid family workers	6,513	0.44%	0.31%

	Iowa	%, Iowa	United States
INCOME IN 1999
Households	1,150,197		105,539,122
Less than $10,000	93,783	8.15%	9.54%
$10,000 to $14,999	77,333	6.72%	6.31%
$15,000 to $24,999	165,122	14.36%	12.83%
$25,000 to $34,999	168,713	14.67%	12.81%
$35,000 to $49,999	218,204	18.97%	16.53%
$50,000 to $74,999	242,022	21.04%	19.46%
$75,000 to $99,999	101,287	8.81%	10.23%
$100,000 to $149,999	55,998	4.87%	7.72%
$150,000 to $199,999	12,879	1.12%	2.2%
$200,000 or more	14,856	1.29%	2.37%
Median household income (dollars)	39,469		41,994
With earnings	925,234	40.56%	39.12%
- Mean earnings (dollars)	48,183		56,604
With Social Security income	328,919	14.42%	12.47%
- Mean Social Security income (dollars)	11,543		11,320
With Supplemental Security Income	37,181	1.63%	2.13%
- Mean Supplemental Security Income (dollars)	6,124		6,320
With public assistance income	32,946	1.44%	1.67%
- Mean public assistance income (dollars)	2,555		3,032
With retirement income	168,374	7.38%	8.13%
- Mean retirement income (dollars)	13,862		17,376
Families	774,246		72,261,780
Less than $10,000	29,696	3.84%	5.75%
$10,000 to $14,999	27,647	3.57%	4.31%
$15,000 to $24,999	82,185	10.61%	10.74%
$25,000 to $34,999	105,089	13.57%	12.02%
$35,000 to $49,999	161,399	20.85%	17.13%
$50,000 to $74,999	203,738	26.31%	22.32%
$75,000 to $99,999	89,699	11.59%	12.47%
$100,000 to $149,999	50,322	6.5%	9.6%
$150,000 to $199,999	11,511	1.49%	2.75%
$200,000 or more	12,960	1.67%	2.92%
Median family income (dollars)	48,005		50,046
Per capita income (dollars)	19,674		21,587
Median earnings (dollars):
Male full-time, year-round workers	32,697		37,057
Female full-time, year-round workers	24,023		27,194
POVERTY STATUS IN 1999 (below poverty level)
Families	46,641		6,620,945
With related children under 18 years	35,315	75.72%	77.87%
- With related children under 5 years	18,725	40.15%	38.7%
Families with female householder, no husband present	22,015		3,315,916
With related children under 18 years	20,292	92.17%	88.68%
- With related children under 5 years	10,982	49.88%	42.27%
Individuals	258,008		33,899,812
18 years and over	178,761	69.29%	65.35%
- 65 years and over	31,118	12.06%	9.7%
Related children under 18 years	74,957	29.05%	33.59%
- Related children 5 to 17 years	50,252	19.48%	23.52%
Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	107,718	41.75%	31.63%

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