Local Area Personal Income for 2016

摘要

PERSONAL INCOME grew faster in the metropolitan portion of the United States (2.5 percent) than in the nonmetropolitan portion (1.0 percent) in 2016. The percent change across counties ranged widely, from -40.8 percent in Kenedy County, Texas, to 27.1 percent in Tillman County, Oklahoma. However, more than three-fourths of the metropolitan counties and almost half of the nonmetropolitan counties grew between 1.0 percent and 6.0 percent (chart 1). Inflation, as measured by the national price index for personal consumption expenditures, was 1.2 percent in 2016.