Change in Total Personal Income by County and Region 1991-2001
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Missouri total personal income, adjusted for inflation, increased by 27.8 percent from 1991 - 2001. Increases occurred in 113 Missouri counties with decline occurring only in Worth County and St. Louis City. As shown on Map 1, total personal income increased from 1991 to 2001 by more than 25 percent in 58 counties. As indicated on the map, 30 of the 42 counties gaining less than 20 percent are concentrated in rural north Missouri with an additional five located in the Bootheel and six more in the Southeast and South Central Regions.
At the other extreme, there were ten counties (Map 1) in which total personal income increased by more than 50 percent from 1991-2001. Those counties are located in areas of high population growth including two counties in suburban Kansas City (Platte and Cass), two counties in suburban St. Louis (St. Charles and Lincoln), three counties in the Springfield-Branson area (Christian, Taney and Stone), Dallas and Camden in the Lake of Ozarks area and Sullivan in North Central. Generally, the amount of increase in county total personal income is associated with the amount of population increase.
Major Components of Total Personal Income and Change From 1991-2001
Table 1 shows the amount of each of five major components of Missouri's total personal income in 1991 and in 2001. By personal income is meant that income received by individuals and families. It does not include the income of corporations for example.
The table shows that the most significant contribution to total personal income is "Wages and Salaries." That income received by employees accounted for 56.3 percent of state total personal income in 1991 and a slightly greater 57.1 percent of the total in 2001. By category the second largest contribution to total personal income was, in both 1991 and 2001, income earned as "Dividends, Interest and Rent." That source accounted for 21.2 percent of state total personal income in 1991 and 19.7 percent of the state total in 2001. The third largest component of total personal income is "Transfer Payments", which includes that income received from government sources by those persons entitled because of age, financial need, retirement, etc. In Missouri about 83 percent of total transfer payments are either retirement (Social Security) or health care (Medicare, Medicaid).
Transfer Payments accounted for 14.7 percent of state total income in 1991 and increased slightly to 15.3 percent of state total by 2001. Although a relatively smaller contributor to total personal income than the above three components, the component labeled "Proprietors Income" (those that derive their income from their own business) increased from $6.5 billion in 1991 to $11.9 billion in 2001. To some degree this reflects the growing importance of small business to the state's economy. As shown in the table, farm income made a relatively small contribution to the state's total personal income in both 1991 and 2001. Although farm income is a relative small contributor to state total income, the amount of farm income can vary significantly from one year to another.
Distribution of Total Personal Income in 2001
Table 2 shows total personal income for each county in both 1991 and 2001. There were 20 counties in which total county personal income exceeded a billion dollars in 2001. Those are generally the counties having the largest population. The largest total was St. Louis County with total personal income of $42.32 billion, which was 26.6 percent of Missouri's total personal income in 2000. Other large income counties in order were: Jackson, ($20.42 billion), St. Louis City, ($9.59 billion), St. Charles ($9.00 billion), Greene, ($6.79 billion), Clay ($5.74 billion), and Jefferson ($4.79 billion). Together those seven counties had total personal income in 2001 of $98.65 billion - 62.0 percent of Missouri's $159.09 billion total. For comparison, those seven counties had total personal income of $60.53 billion that was 63.2 percent of the 1991 state total. This comparison shows that Missouri's total personal income became somewhat less concentrated in the largest counties from 1991 to 2001.
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Map 2 shows that in 2001 there were 29 counties whose total personal income was less than $200 million - in six of those counties total income was less than $100 million. An additional 43 counties had a total personal income of between $200 and $500 million. The total personal income of 23 counties was between $500 million and $1 billion and in the remaining 20 counties total personal income exceeded $1 billion.
Regional Comparisons of Total Personal Income 1990-2000
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OSEDA Regional Grouping of Counties Many demographic factors vary by region within the state of Missouri. For the convenience of our user community, OSEDA prepares tables using three different regional groupings of counties: Extension, Economic Development and Transportation. For each of these groupings, one table summarizes the indicators by regional total and a second table shows values for each county grouped by region. Users may select the county grouping most helpful for their application and understanding. |
University of Missouri Extension Regions
Table 3 reports total personal income by University of Missouri Extension Regions in 1991 and 2001. Because of very large differences in population among the regions there is a corresponding large difference in total personal income. By far the greatest personal income in 2001 was in the East Central Region with $71.84 billion. Although the West Central Region's total personal income of $34.80 billion was second largest among the regions, it was less than half the amount of the East Central Region. There was a similar difference with regard to the Southwest Region. Total personal income in Southwest was third largest with $17.08 billion. That regional total was less than half of West Central. Central Region was fourth largest at $11.21 billion.
Although East Central had by far the greatest total personal income among the regions, the rate of increase from 1991 to 2001 was 25.0 percent, which was below the 27.8 percent increase of the state. Half the regions, East Central, Northeast, Northwest and Southeast, each had a rate of increase in total personal income well below the statewide rate. Population increase and economic growth have been closely linked in Missouri during the past decade. Therefore, it is not surprising that the greatest relative increase in total personal income (41.1 percent) was in the Southwest Region - the region that also had the greatest rate of population increase among the regions from 1991-2001. For that same reason increase in total personal income from 1991 to 2001 was next greatest in Central and South Central having an increase of 32.3 and 32.2 percent respectively.
Missouri Department of Economic Development Regions
Since there are 13 Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) regions most have a smaller number of counties than the eight Extension regions. This is reflected in the total personal income reported by DED regions in Table 4. The table shows that while four of the DED regions - St. Louis MSA, Kansas City MSA, Springfield-Branson and Central had a combined total personal income of $123.20 billion in 2001 (77 percent of Missouri's total), that leaves the remaining $36 billion to be divided among nine regions. As shown in the table none of the remaining nine regions had total personal income in 2001 of greater than $6.5 billion. Especially small were the North Central and South Central Regions each having an aggregate personal income of less than $2 billion.
During the past decade there has been a clear linkage between population and economic growth in Missouri. Among the thirteen DED regions there is a very close correlation between change in region population and change in total personal income. Particularly important has been the extent to which migration contributed to population growth. There were five DED regions whose total personal income increased by more than 30 percent from 1991 to 2001. The greatest percentage increase among those regions was the 45.5 percent increase in the Springfield-Branson region followed by a 35.2 percent increase in the Lake Ozarks-Rolla region. Both had significant population growth from 1991-2001.
At the other extreme, total personal income increased by 20 percent or less in four of the 13 regions. Those four regions are the Bootheel, Northwest, Northeast and North Central. Together those four regions had an increase in total personal income of only $1.95 billion - only about 5 percent of the state total.
Missouri Department of Transportation DistrictsTable 5 shows the extent of change in total personal income for each of the ten MODOT districts. As reported above about half of Missouri counties (58) had an increase in total adjusted personal income of greater than 25 percent from 1991 to 2001.
Change in the total personal income among the ten districts is closely related to the extent of population change in each district. The Districts with relatively little population growth also had relatively little growth in total personal income. Although the counties included in the St. Louis District had total personal income of $68.16 billion (42.8 percent of state total) in 2001, the rate of district increase (24.3 percent) was well below the statewide increase of 27.8 percent. The rate of increase was much lower in the Macon (North Central) District and the St. Joseph District (Northwest) in which total personal income increased by 12.2 and 18.5 percent respectively.
Among the ten MODOT Districts the greatest rate of population growth during the 1990s occurred in the Springfield and Jefferson City Districts and, correspondingly, total personal income in those regions increased by 43.5 and 37.2 percent respectively. In three other MODOT Districts, Joplin, Kansas City and Willow Springs total personal income increased by amounts above the state average with increases of 32.1, 30.2 and 28.8 percent respectively.
Missouri Regional Planning Commission Areas
As shown in Table 6 there are 19 Missouri Regional Planning Commission Areas. Some of these are known as Regional Planning Commission Areas, some are known as Regional Councils of Government. These regions range from as few as three counties in the Boonslick RPC (within St. Louis metro area) to as many as 11 counties in the Green Hills RPC in north central Missouri. Considering the size variation among these 19 regions, there is significant variation in amount and rate of change in regional total personal income between 1991 and 2001.
Among the RPCs, the greatest total personal income in 2001 was in the East-West Gateway Coordinating Council with an income of $68.16 billion in 2001. That Council covers the FIVE counties which form the core of the St. Louis metro area - St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and St. Charles, Franklin and Jefferson Counties. The $68.16 billion total personal income of that region accounts for 43 percent of the Missouri total. The second greatest total personal income was in the Mid-America RPC (Jackson, Cass, Clay, Platte and Ray Counties) with $31.57 billion in 2001 - 19.8 percent of Missouri total. The third highest total personal income was $12.38 billion in the 10 county Southwest Missouri Council of Governments including Springfield and nine other surrounding counties. Together, those three RPCs account for just over 70 percent of Missouri total personal income.
Following the three most populated RPCs and their 70 percent of Missouri total personal income the remaining 16 RPC regions are comparatively uniform in amount of personal income per region. With the exception of the Mid-Missouri RPC with a total personal income of $7.8 billion in 2001, there was no other RPC with personal income in excess of $4.3 billion.
With the exception of the five county NWMO Regional Council of Governments with a total personal income of $885 million, the remaining 14 RPCs each had a regional total personal income of between $1.09 and $4.34 billion in 2001.
The greatest percentage increase in total personal income between 1991 and 2001 occurred in the Boonslick RPC with an increase of 49.4 percent followed by the 10 county Southwest Missouri Council of Government with an increase of 43.7 percent. Both had significant population increase during the past decade - a major contributor to total income growth. The smallest increases occurred among the four RPCs covering most of rural north Missouri. In none of those four RPCs (Green Hills, NWMO, Mark Twain and Northeast) did the increase in total personal income between 1991 and 2001 exceed 15.1 percent.
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The following links provide detailed tables of Personal Income in Missouri, 1991-2001. They are available in both HTML and Adobe Acrobat(PDF) formats. All Missouri Counties |
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| Missouri Total Personal Income, 1991-2001 By County With State Totals | HTML | |
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Missouri Personal Income, 1991-2001 - By UM Extension Region |
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| Missouri Personal Income, 1991-2001 - By County Within UM Extension Region | HTML | |
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Missouri Personal Income, 1991-2001 - By County Within DED Region |
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| Missouri Personal Income, 1991-2001 - By County Within DOT District | HTML | |
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| Missouri Personal Income, 1991-2001 - By RPC | HTML | |
| Missouri Personal Income, 1991-2001 - By County Within RPC | HTML | |
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