Local Area Personal Income for 2015

摘要

PERSONAL INCOME grew substantially faster in the metropolitan portion of the United States (4.7 percent) than in the nonmetropolitan portion (2.7 percent) in 2015. The percent change across counties ranged widely, from -30.3 percent in Sully County, South Dakota, to 35.0 percent in Loving County, Texas. However, more than three-fourths of the metropolitan counties and more than one-half of the non-metropolitan 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 0.3 percent in 2015.