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Top Employers -
1999
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Craven's Pottery
Inc
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Direct Feed Mill
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Mt Vernon Mills
Inc
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North Georgia 85
Inc
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Sonny's Real Pit
Bar-B-Q
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In alphabetical
order.
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- In the year
2000, the average weekly wage for all the employment sectors in the county was
$417. This amount was less than the statewide average of $622.
- In Banks
County, Manufacturing is the largest employment sector providing 34.9% of the
jobs. The other predominant employment sectors are Services and Retail trade.
Statewide, the service industry is the largest employment sector, contributing
25.6% of the state's jobs.
- Between 1996
and 2000, Banks County's annual unemployment rate was equal to the state's
average rate of 4.2%. Nationally, unemployment for the same period averaged
4.8%.
- The county
per capita personal income in 1999 was $19,408, as compared with $27,324 for
Georgia and $28,546 for the United States.
- Banks
County's median household income in 1997 was $33,061. This amount was less than
the state's median household income of $36,372 in that same year. Nationally,
the median household income in 1999 was $37,005.
- During 1997,
14.4% of the county's population lived below the poverty level, compared with
Georgia's rate of 14.7% and the national rate of 13.3%. In addition, 23.7% of
the children under the age of 18 lived below the poverty level in Banks County.
Nationally, 19.9% of the population under the age of 18 years lived below the
level of poverty.
- Residents of
Banks County received total government transfer payments amounting to $2,273
per capita in 1999, compared with $3,302 per capita statewide. Transfer
payments include retirement and disability insurance benefit payments, medical
benefits, unemployment insurance benefits, and veteran's benefits payments.
- According to
the Georgia Department of Revenue's Net Property and Utility Digest, Banks
County's assessed property value amounted to $366.9 million in 1999, resulting
in a per capita assessed property value of $28,665. At the state level, per
capita assessed property value in 1999 equaled $24,462.
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