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Countians top city in income

Joshua Brown

ALBANY — City residents made about $1,000 less in 2006 than county residents, according to annual figures released Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

County residents had a per capita personal income in 2006 — the latest data available — of $26,349 as opposed to city residents’ $25,432, according to the data.

That put the city’s residents at more than $11,000 below the national average of $36,714 and ranks Albany at 342nd of the nation’s 363 metro statistical areas.

Dougherty County’s per capita personal income was $26,349, compared to the state average of $32,095, and ranked 51st of the state’s 159 counties, according to the data.

Since 1996, the data showed, the county increased from $19,116, but dropped from a rank of 48. The increase from 2005 to 2006 for the state was 2.9 percent while the national increase was 5.6 percent, compared to the county’s 207 percent increase, according to the data.

The city’s increase from 2005 to 2006 represented a 2.5 percent increase, compared to the national increase of 5.6 percent. In 1996, the city’s per capita income was $18,990 and ranked No. 302 of the nation’s 363 MSAs, the data showed.

The study’s full results can be viewed at http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/lapi/lapi— newsrelease.htm

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