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to farm useage declined from 66 percent to 45 percent.
In 1950. 56.2 percent of county residents were employed by an agricultural industry. The figure slid to 37.3 percent by 1960 and to 20 percent by 1970.
As local farm jobs disappeared, workers apparently began to look beyond the county line for employment.
In 1960, Rappahannock had 590 out-commuters. 35.1 percent of a labor force of 1.681.
By 1980. the county's labor force had swelled to 2,195. an increase of 30 percent, while out-commuters numbered 1.100. an increase of 86 percent. During the same period that the total number of workers jumped by 30 percent, the increase in workers who found jobs in the county was a negligible 0.4 percent.
In 1980 , 50.1 percent of all county workers left the county for employment purposes; this compares to 35.1 in I960.
Rappahannock had the highest percentage in the planning district of workers out-commuting in 1980. It
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