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New York, Nov. 21 - How well are Rappahannock County residents making out financially? What proportion of local families are now to be found in the upper income brackets?
According to a nationwide survey, rising wages and salaries have carried most families in the area to higher positions on the income ladder.
Just where they stand, currently, is brought out in a copyrighted report issued by Sales Management, the marketing publication. It details, for every section of the country, the percentage of families that fall within each income bracket
The survey was designed to give a better understanding of a community’s buying power than was possible through the "average income” figure alone.
It shows whether average income in a locality represents earnings that are well distributed among the bulk of the population or whether it stands for a small proportion of families with verv large incomes compensating for a much larger number with low incomes.
In Rappahannock I'ountv . it finds, the level of earnings and the distribution are relativelv good. Some 40.9 percent of the
73.5%