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Top Employers -
1999
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ConAgra Poultry
Co
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Fieldale Farms
Corp
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KSL Lake Lanier
Inc
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Mar-Jac Poultry
Inc
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Northeast Georgia
Medical Center Inc
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In alphabetical
order.
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- In the year
2000, the average weekly wage for all the employment sectors in the county was
$535. This amount was less than the statewide average of $622.
- In Hall
County, Manufacturing is the largest employment sector providing 30.2% of the
jobs. The other predominant employment sectors are Services and Retail trade.
Statewide, the service industry is the largest employment sector, contributing
25.6% of the state's jobs.
- Between 1996
and 2000, Hall County's annual unemployment rate was less than the state's
rate, averaging 2.8% compared with the state's average of 4.2%. Nationally, the
unemployment rate for the same period averaged 4.8%.
- The county
per capita personal income in 1999 was $25,631, as compared with $27,324 for
Georgia and $28,546 for the United States.
- Hall County's
median household income in 1997 was $38,435. This amount was greater than the
state's median household income of $36,372 in that same year. Nationally, the
median household income in 1999 was $37,005.
- During 1997,
11.9% of the county's population lived below the poverty level, compared with
Georgia's rate of 14.7% and the national rate of 13.3%. In addition, 20.0% of
the children under the age of 18 lived below the poverty level in Hall County.
Nationally, 19.9% of the population under the age of 18 years lived below the
level of poverty.
- Residents of
Hall County received total government transfer payments amounting to $2,285 per
capita in 1999, compared with $3,302 per capita statewide. Transfer payments
include retirement and disability insurance benefit payments, medical benefits,
unemployment insurance benefits, and veteran's benefits payments.
- According to
the Georgia Department of Revenue's Net Property and Utility Digest, Hall
County's assessed property value amounted to $3.3 billion in 1999, resulting in
a per capita assessed property value of $27,850. At the state level, per capita
assessed property value in 1999 equaled $24,462.
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