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The rental vacancy rate in Rappahannock is 3.9 percent, compared to 8.1 percent statewide. »
The median value of all 1,802 owner-occupied housing units in th$ county is $89,300, compared to* $91,000 statewide. j
Rental units cost, on average^ $345 a month in Rappahannock, $41& in the state of Virginia. £
Population density, a measure ofj the number of persons per mile, ia» 24.8 for Rappahannock, 153 for Vir2 ginia. The most sparsely populated! county in the state, by the way, iff* Highland County: density 6.3. Fairfax County has a population density rate of 3,164.
U.Va. also measured marriage patterns for all persons ages 15 and, up in Rappahannock, as of May, \ 1991. There were 1,6% married * women, 1,711 married men, 460 ' women who had never married, 639 ‘ never-married men, 49 separated | women, 61 separated men, 311 wid- * ows, 72 widowers, 154 divorced ' women and 192 divorced men. )
PD-9 also keeps on file tax infor- J mation supplied by the Virginia De- ; partment of Taxation. In the most recent report, covering taxable sales ■ during the calendar year 1990 (as reflected by deposits of sales tax reve- - nues made between Feb. 1,1990 and ' Jan. 31, 1991), Rappahannock re-4 corded no sales of apparel, lumber* and building supplies, or wholesale * fuel. i
There were nine auto dealers I who reported $477,000 taxable sales, * 30 furniture dealers reporting $1.1 i million, 51 food dealers reporting I $7.6 million, 10 general merchandise * dealers reporting $1.5 million, five-' dealers in machinery, tools and sup-' plies reporting $130,000, 89 “miscel- ‘ laneous” reporting $3.7 million, 14; dealers in hotels, motels, etc. re- , porting $559,000 and 17 in the “un-; identified miscellaneous” category * reporting $416,000.
That makes for a total of 205« dealers in Rappahannock doing a to- J tal of $15.5 million in taxable sales* during calendar year 1990. ■ Statewide there was $42 billion in.' taxable sales last year, $17 billion of which was done in Virginia’s cities.
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) provides PD-9 with information about traffic figures on the county’s 53.58 miles of arterial and primary routes.
Rappahannock ranks 77th out of Virginia’s % counties in relative density of traffic on those roads. Cars drive a total of 189,000 miles on: the county’s main roads per 24 hours, single unit trucks log 11,700miles, tractor-trailers rack up 6,400miles and twin trucks only 28 miles. *
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