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both ends of the statistical scale with the lowest tax rate and the highest unemployment rate in the fivecounty area.
The planning district's date summary gives the county’s 1980 effective tax rate per $100 of assessed value as 26 cents on real estate, almost half that of the second lowest levy—50 cents—charged in Orange County. By comparison, Madison's true effective tax rate for 1980 is 55 cents. Fauquier’s 58 cents and Culpeper’s 63 cents.
On personal property, Rappahannock's rate of $4.40 ranks in the middle with Orange ($5.50) and Culpeper ($5) higher and Madison ($4.35) and Fauquier ($2.80) lower.
As of December, 1980, Rappahannock had 5.9 per cent of its work force of 2.619 out of jobs, the highest unemployment rate in the planning district. The district-wide unemployment rate for December was 4.0 per cent, for Culpeper 4.5 per cent, for Fauquier 3.1 per
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