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 Nonemployment income.--Income from nonemployment sources, which made

up a fifth of the total cash income reported by the 730 households, totaled

$364,432. These sources include income from rent, interest, unemployment com-

pensation, military benefits, and welfare payments. Welfare payments were by

far the most important single source of nonemployment income; they constituted

43 percent of total income from these sources.

 Income from these sources was almost equally divided between farm and

nonfarm households. Because of the smaller number reporting this income, how-

ever, farm families averaged $1,033 compared with $836 for nonfarm families.

 Approximately 58 percent of the nonwhite households received income

from nonemployment sources compared with 52 percent of the white households.

Levels of nonemployment income were higher among the white than among the non-

white families (Table 91). A majority of the families of both races reported

less than $750, but almost 17 percent of the white households reported over

$1,500 compared with approximately 1 percent of the nonwhite households. White

families averaged $1,059, whereas nonwhite families averaged $667.

 Because of the influence of old age assistance payments, the inci-

dence of households headed by individuals over 60 years of age was high among

the households reporting nonemployment income (Table 92). Households headed by

persons above age 60 were considerably more concentrated in income classes from

$500 to $1,500 than were households with younger family heads.

 Substantially higher proportions of one- and two-member families

reported nonemployment income than families with three or more members. There

was little apparent relationship between size of household and proportions

reporting various levels of income other than perhaps the 1-member families

where 70 percent of the households reported nonemployment incomes of $500 to

$749 (Table 93), Again, this was probably due to the influence of old age

assistance.