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 Nonfarm employment income.--Income from nonfarm employment accounted

for a little more than one million dollars, or approximately 60 percent of the

total cash income received by the survey households. Nonfarm employment was

the major source of income for farm as well as nonfarm households and for both

white and nonwhite families.

 White and nonwhite households reported nonfarm work as a source of

income in the same proportions as the total number of white and nonwhite house-

holds in the survey (Table 80). In each racial group, 64 households reported

nonfarm work income below $1,000, making the relative number of households

earning below this level twice as great among the nonwhite households. House-

holds reporting nonfarm work income of $2,000 to $2,999 were encountered most

frequently; they accounted for more than one-fifth of the households in each

racial group. Approximately 7 percent of the nonwhite households reported

$3,000 or more from nonfarm employment compared with 41 percent of the white

households. Average income from this source for the 433 reporting households

was $2,460. White families averaged $2,975 while nonwhite families averaged

$1,372.

 In general, and in relative terms, households with young to middle

aged family heads were more frequently represented among those households

reporting income from nonfarm employment than were households headed by older

persons. As the age of the family head increased to the age group 45 to 49

years, households in each family age group made up increasing proportions of

all households reporting nonfarm income. The reverse was true for each age

class above 50 years, Through the family head age class 55 to 59 years, larger

than proportional numbers of households reported nonfarm employment income.

Thus, households with family heads over 60 years of age constituted 36 percent

of all households and less than 19 percent of the households reporting nonfarm