Local Area Personal Income for 2014

摘要

PERSONAL INCOME grew substantially faster in the metropolitan portion of the United States (4.6 percent) in 2014 than in the nonmetropolitan portions (3.2 percent). The percent change across counties ranged widely, from -35.1 percent in Wallace County, Kansas, to 83.7 percent in McPherson County, Nebraska. However, more than three-fourths of the metropolitan counties and more than one-half of the nonmetropolitan counties grew at rates between 1.1 percent and 6.0 percent (chart 1). Inflation, as measured by the national price index for personal consumption expenditures, was 1.4 percent in 2014.