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IV. Human Resources and Income


 Family income from all sources.--The 730 survey families

total income of $1.77 million in 1956 (Table 55). Income reported

white families constituted 80 percent of total income and averaged

family, compared with an average of $1,529 for nonwhite families,

TABLE 55,-Aggregate cash income by major sources and by race, 730
 holds, North and West Florida, 1956


reported

by the 496

$2,855 per



rural house-


 : Cash income

 Major source :
 : Total a White Nonwhite


 s Dollars Dollars Dollars

Farm operation a 241,705 221,329 20,376
Work on (other) farms : 102,193 45,628 56,565
Nonfarm employment : 1065,488 874,790 190,698
Other a 364,432 274,346 90,086

 All sources : 1,773,818 1,416,093 357,725


 Although the survey was restricted to open-country rural areas, the

income from farming operations accounted for less than 14 percent of total

income (Table 56). When combined, income from farm operation and farm wage

work amounted to less than one-fifth of all income and less than income from

nonemployment sources Nonfarm employment was by far the most important income

source. Relatively, income from farm wage work and nonemployment sources were

of greater importance to the nonwhite than to the white families. The reverse

was true for both farm income and income from nonfarm employment.

 While family income averaged $2,430 for the 730 families, more than

half of the families reported cash family incomes of less than $2,000 (Table 57).

Less than 12 percent of the families reported incomes of $5,000 or more. The