New data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis for 2007 show per capita income in the U.S. was $38,615, up from $36,794 in 2006. When adjusted for inflation, the income increased 2.1 percent over the year.
Per capita income in metropolitan areas was $40,544 in 2007. Nonmetro per capita income was $28,773, still lagging significantly behind metropolitan areas. In most nonmetropolitan counties, per capita income is less than the U.S. average. In 2007, per capita income in nonmetropolitan counties ranged from $8,579 in Loup County, Nebraska to $132,728 in Teton County, Wyoming.
Click here for a map showing the per capita income in nonmetropolitan counties, 2007.
From 2006 to 2007, income (after adjusting for inflation) increased 1.9 percent in metropolitan areas, but 2.7 percent in nonmetropolitan areas. While real per capita income (that is, adjusted for inflation) declined in 52 nonmetropolitan counties, there were many more places where income increased. In much of the Great Plains and Midwest, income grew at a pace more than twice the national rate of growth during the year.
Click here for a map showing the percent change in real per capita income in nonmetropolitan counties from 2006 to 2007.
