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TABLE 91.--Number and percentage distribution of households reporting nonemploy-
ment income, by nonemployment income class and race, 394 rural households, North
 and West Florida, 1956


 : : Race
 Nonemployment : All :_____......
 income class : households 
 (dollars) : White t Nonwhite

 : Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent

 1- 249 : 56 14.2 37 14.3 19 14.1
 250- 499 63 16.0 39 15.1 24 17.8
 500- 749 110 27.9 64 24.7 46 34.1
 750- 999 : 56 14.2 34 13.1 22 16.3
 1,000-1,499 : 64 16.2 42 16.2 22 16.3
 1,500-1,999 : 24 6.1 23 8.9 1 .7
 2,000-2,999 2 12 3.1 11 4.2 1 .7
 3,000-3,999 2 .5 2 .8 ..
 4,000-4,999 4 1.0 4 1.5
 5,000-7,499 : 2 .5 2 .8
 7,500-9,999 .. .. .. ..
 10,000 and over : 1 .3 1 .4

 Total : 394 100.0 259 100.0 135 100.0


 Almost 79 percent of the households with no able-bodied males present

reported nonemployment income. This group constituted 37 percent of total

households and 54 percent of the households reporting nonemployment income.

Households with no able-bodied males were concentrated considerably more in the

medium nonemployment income classes and less in the lower income classes than

were households with one or more able-bodied males. Approximately 17 percent

of the households with one able-bodied male member reported nonemployment income

in excess of $1,500 compared with approximately 10 percent of households in

other groups.

 Approximately the same proportion of households with no able-bodied

females (79 percent) reported nonemployment income as did households with no

able-bodied males. This group of households accounted for 27 percent of total