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Personal income in Rappahannock County for 1960 was $6,151 compared to $1,561 21 years previously. Total personal income in Virginia was 7,371 million dollars in 1960, reports a survey on personal income in Virginia for 1960. In 1939, Virginia’s total personal income was 1,128 million dollars. * The per capita income here was $1,150 compared with $217 in 1939 says the report by John L. Lancaster of the Bureau of Population and Economic Research at the Uni vet sity of Virginia. Arlington County had the high est per capita income in the state, $3,455, and Lee County in southwest Virginia, the lowest, $776. Income from salaries and wages was the major source of Income in the state accounting for 73 per cent of the total. Other income sources were: income of proprietors (self-employed persons), property income (rent interest, dividends) and trans. fer payments (insurance, inheritance, etc.) In Rappahannock County, net labor income was $3,586 farm proprietor’s income $1,332 non-farm proprietor’s income $39(i property income, $299 and transfer payments, $544. In 1960, 16 counties in the state derived more than 15 per cent of their total income from farm ownership. Purchasing power of those farm owners is increasing whereas it is declining in the rest of the state Those counties were Highland, Amelia, Cumberland,Hal ifax, Surry, Brunswick, Charlotte, Lunenburg, Rappahannock, Sussex, Madison, Mecklenburg, Pittsylvania, Floyd, Rockingham and Southampton. Their sources of farm income
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