Increase in Total Personal Income of Missouri and its Counties and Regions from 1993-2003 - in Constant Dollars
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As shown in Table 1 Missouri total personal income, adjusted for inflation, increased from $132.97 billion in 1993 to $168.51 billion in 2003 an increase of 26.7 percent. Map 1 shows there were 23 counties in 2003 in which total personal income was greater than $1.0 billion in each. However there were a few counties with dramatically greater total personal income in 2003 than any of the others. The largest was St. Louis County with a total personal income of $43.77 billion, more than double the $21.01 total personal income of the second largest- Jackson County. The third and fourth greatest total incomes in 2003 were in St. Charles County with $9.86 billion and St. Louis City with $9.48 billion. It is significant that the total personal income of these four counties was $84.12 billion in 2003 – half the total of Missouri. St. Charles had a 60 percent increase in county total personal income from 1993 – 2003 far greater than either St. Louis or Jackson Counties which each had a 20 percent increase from 1993-2003.
At the other extreme there were 92 counties (80 percent of all counties) in which county total personal income was less than $1 billion in 2003. There were 26 counties in which total county income was less than $200 million in 2003. Map 1 shows those counties to be most heavily concentrated in rural north Missouri.
Change in Total Personal Income by County and Region 1993-2003
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Missouri total personal income, which increased by 26.7 percent from 1993-2003 (from $133 billion in 1993 to $168 billion in 2003), increased in all state counties during those years. As shown on Map 2, total personal income increased by more than 25 percent in just over half of Missouri counties (58) from 1993 to 2003. Among those counties there were 8 in which total income increased by 50 percent or more from 1993-2003. Three of those counties, Lincoln County (66.3 percent), St. Charles County (60.5 percent), and Warren County (52.8 percent) are St. Louis suburban counties. An additional three of the most rapidly growing counties are in the Springfield area, e.g. Christian (75.5 percent), Dallas County (55.5 percent) and McDonald County (49.8 percent). The remaining two most rapidly growing counties are in the Lake of the Ozarks area, Camden (55.7 percent) and Benton (49.9 percent). The map also shows that the 50 counties having an increase of between 25 and 50 percent in total personal income between 1993 and 2003 were mostly in which total income increased by 50 percent or more from 1993-2003. Three of those counties, Lincoln County (66.3 percent), St. Charles County (60.5 percent), and Warren County (52.8 percent) are St. Louis suburban counties. An additional three of the most rapidly growing counties are in the Springfield area, e.g. Christian (75.5 percent), Dallas County (55.5 percent) and McDonald County (49.8 percent). The remaining two most rapidly growing counties are in the Lake of the Ozarks area, Camden (55.7 percent) and Benton (49.9 percent). The map also shows that the 50 counties having an increase of between 25 and 50 percent in total personal income between 1993 and 2003 were mostly located south of the Missouri River. Those counties with income growth greater than the state average are generally counties that also have had relatively significant population growth between 1993 and 2003.
As also indicated on Map 2, 22 of the 31 counties with total personal income gain of less than 20 percent are located north of the Missouri River. Included among the other 9 counties is St. Louis City which had the lowest gain in the state (0.1 percent) from 1993-2003. Of the remaining eight counties two are located in the Bootheel, three in the Mark Twain National Forest, and two counties in the Southwest Region.
Regional Comparisons of Total Personal Income 1993-2003
University of Missouri Extension Regions
Table 2 reports total personal income by University of Missouri Extension Regions in 1993 and 2003. Because of very large differences in population among the regions, there is a correspondingly large difference in total personal income. By far the greatest personal income in 2003 was in the East Central Region with $75.40 billion. Although the West Central Region's total personal income of $36.80 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 $18.49 billion. That regional total was less than half of West Central. Central Region was fourth largest at $11.80 billion.
Although East Central had by far the greatest total personal income among the regions, the rate of increase from 1993 to 2003 was 24.5 percent, which was slightly below the 26.7 percent statewide increase. In addition to East Central there were three additional regions, Northeast, Northwest and Southeast, each of which had a 1993-2003 rate of increase in total personal income below the state rate of 26.7 percent. 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 (34.5 percent) was in the Southwest Region - the region that also had the greatest rate of population increase among the regions from 1993-2003. For those same reasons increase in total personal income from 1993 to 2003 was next greatest in South Central and Central regions which had increases of 33.9 and 29.4 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 3. 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 $129.63 billion in 2003 (77 percent of Missouri's total), that leaves the remaining $38.88 billion to be divided among the other nine regions. As shown in Table 3 none of the remaining nine regions had total personal income in 2003 of greater than $7.0 billion. Especially small were the South Central Region with a total personal income of $2.25 billion and the North Central Region with a total personal income of $1.62 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 seven DED regions whose total personal income increased by more than 28.5 percent from 1993 to 2003. The greatest percentage increases among the regions was the 38.3 percent increase in the Lake Ozarks-Rolla region followed by a 37.3 percent increase in the Springfield-Branson region. Both had significant population growth from 1993-2003.
At the other extreme, total personal income increased by less than the state average in the Bootheel Region (24.1 percent) and in the Northwest Region (20.9 percent). The two smallest increases were in the Northeast Region with a 14.9 percent increase and the North Central Region with an increase of 10.4 percent. Together those four regions had an increase in total personal income from 1993-2003 of only $2.32 billion - only about 6 percent of the state total.
Missouri Department of Transportation Districts
Table 4 shows the extent of change in total personal income for each of the ten MODOT districts. As reported above more than half of Missouri counties (58) had an increase in total adjusted personal income greater than 25 percent from 1993 to 2003.
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 five counties included in the St. Louis District had total personal income of $71.26 billion (42.3 percent of state total) in 2003, the rate of district income increase (23.5 percent) was well below the statewide increase of 26.7 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 12.5 percent and 22.4 percent respectively. Both those Districts lost population from 2000-2003.
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 36.1 percent and 33.7 percent from 1993-2003 respectively. In two other MODOT Districts, Joplin and Willow Springs, total personal income increased by amounts above the state average with increases of 29.4 and 32.8 percent respectively. Both those Districts had population increases above the state average from 2000-2003.
Missouri Regional Planning Commission Areas
As shown in Table 5 there are 19 Missouri Regional Planning Commission Areas. Some of these are known as Regional Planning Commission Areas (RPCs), while others are known as Regional Councils of Government (COGs). These regions range from inclusion of as few as three counties in the Boonslick RPC (within the 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 the amount and rate of change in regional total personal income between 1993 and 2003.
Among the RPCs, the greatest total personal income in 2003 was in the East-West Gateway Coordinating Council with an income of $71.26 billion in 2003. That Council covers the five counties which form the core of the St. Louis metro area - St. Louis City and St. Louis, St. Charles, Franklin and Jefferson Counties. The $71.26 billion total personal income of that region accounts for 42.3 percent of the Missouri state total. The second greatest total personal income was in the Mid-America RPC (Jackson, Cass, Clay, Platte and Ray counties) with $33.24 billion in 2003 - 19.7 percent of the Missouri total. The third highest total personal income was $13.44 billion in the 10 county Southwest Missouri Council of Governments including Greene (Springfield) and 9 other surrounding counties. Together, those three RPCs account for 70.0 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 $8.10 billion in 2003, there was no other RPC with total personal income in excess of $4.70 billion.
With the exception of the five county NWMO Regional Council of Governments with a total personal income of $934 million, the remaining 14 RPCs each had a regional total personal income of between $1.17 and $4.70 billion in 2003.
The greatest percentage increase in total personal income between 1993 and 2003 occurred in the Boonslick RPC with an increase of 53.6 percent followed by the four county Lake of Ozarks Council of Governments with an increase of 39.4 percent. Both had significant population increases 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 1993 and 2003 exceed 19.3 percent.
| Detailed Tables of Personal Income in Missouri 1993-2003 | ||
The following links provide detailed tables of Personal Income in Missouri 1993-2003. They are available in both HTML and Adobe Acrobat(PDF) formats. |
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| UO/E Regions | ||
| Wage and Salary Employment in Missouri, 1993-2003 - By UM Extension Region | HTML | |
| Personal Income in Missouri, 1993-2003 - By County Within UM Extension Region | HTML | |
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| Personal Income in Missouri, 1993-2003 - By DED Region | HTML | |
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Personal Income in Missouri, 1993-2003 - By County Within DED Region |
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| MoDOT Regions | ||
| Personal Income in Missouri, 1993-2003 - By DOT District | HTML | |
| Personal Income in Missouri, 1993-2003 - By County Within DOT District | HTML | |
| RPC Regions | ||
| Personal Income in Missouri, 1993-2003 - By RPC | HTML | |
| Personal Income in Missouri, 1993-2003 - By County Within RPC | HTML | |
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