2000 vs. 2016 Personal Income Growth and Change

North Dakota Real Personal Income Growth by County

2000 vs. 2016, Net Percent Change

McKenzie County 2000 vs. 2016

Net Percent Change = 299.97%

Rank = #1

Hettinger County 2000 vs. 2016

Net Percent Change = -11.64%

Rank = #53

Mercer County 2000 vs. 2016

Net Percent Change = 63.14%

Rank = #15

With a spotlight on Mercer County, the chart above displays the distribution of the net percent change of real (inflation adjusted) personal income across North Dakota's 53 counties over the period 2000-2016.

Those counties whose real personal income growth registered above the statewide average over this period realized an increase in their statewide share of real personal income. Likewise, those counties whose real personal income growth registered below the statewide average experienced a decline in their relative share of real personal income statewide.

Statewide Snippets:

Over 2000-2016 real personal income grew in fifty-one North Dakota counties while declining in two.
Real personal income growth in eleven counties outpaced the statewide average (77.61%), while growth in forty-two counties trailed.
At the extremes of the distribution, McKenzie County posted the highest growth of real personal income (299.97%), while Hettinger County placed last by logging a -11.64% decline.
The spread in real personal income growth between the highest (McKenzie County, 299.97%) and lowest (Hettinger County, -11.64%) over 2000-2016 equated to 311.62% ( = 299.97% − -11.64%).
Real personal income growth statewide is but a weighted metric that stems from each county's share of real personal income statewide. On this point, as the largest county in North Dakota, Cass County's net real personal income growth over 2000-2016 of $4,287,103K made up 24.58% of the total net growth statewide ($17,442,559K):

Cass County: Percent Share of North Dakota's
Real Personal Income Growth, 2000-2016:

24.58% = ($4,287,103K / $17,442,559K) x 100

Mercer County Snippets:

Over 2000-2016, Mercer County posted a 63.14% net gain in real personal income.
Mercer County was joined by forty-one other counties whose real personal income growth over 2000-2016 registered below the statewide average (77.61%).
Ranked #15 among North Dakota's 53 counties, Mercer County's real personal income growth (63.14%) trailed the statewide average of 77.61% by a 14.47% margin.
Mercer County's net real personal income growth (63.14%, #15) over 2000-2016 registered just above that of Bowman County (63.03%, #16) and just below that of Eddy County (68.37%, #14).
Mercer County's share of real personal income statewide slipped from 1.39% in 2000 to 1.27% in 2016, resulting in a share-shift of -0.11%.

Real Personal Income Growth by County

2000 vs. 2016, Net Percent Change

County Distribution of Real Personal Income Growth, 2000 vs. 2016

	More than 125%	125% to 100%	100% to 75%	75% to 50%	50% to 25%	25% to 0%	0% to -25%	-25% or Below	Total
2000 vs. 2016	6	2	4	5	23	11	2	0	53

Real Personal Income by County, 2016

Cass County 2016

Real Personal Income = $9,410M

Percent of State = 23.57%

Rank = #1

Slope County 2016

Real Personal Income = $28M

Percent of State = 0.07%

Rank = #53

Mercer County 2016

Real Personal Income = $509M

Percent of State = 1.27%

Rank = #15

Again highlighting Mercer County's position, the bar graph above displays the disposition by county of 2016 real personal income statewide ($39,917M).

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Statewide Snippets:

Ranked #1, Cass County's 2016 personal income totaled $9,410M, equating to 23.57% of the statewide total.
Ranked last (#53), Slope County's real personal income of $28M in 2016 comprised just 0.07% of the total statewide. Slope County's real personal income in 2016 equates to less than .01% to that of Cass County's.
Cass County's 2016 personal income ($9,410M) exceeded the combined personal income ($9,228M) of North Dakota's forty-two smallest counties.

Mercer County Snippets:

Mercer County's personal income in 2016 ranked #15, amounting to 1.27% of the statewide total.
Mercer County's personal income of $509M placed below that of Walsh County's ($520M, #14), and just above that of Rolette County's ($502M, #16).
Mercer County's personal income of $509M exceeds the combined total ($496M) of North Dakota's seven smallest counties.

Real Personal Income by County, 2016

County Distribution of Real Personal Income, 2016

	More than $5,000M	$5,000M to $4,000M	$4,000M to $3,000M	$3,000M to $2,000M	$2,000M to $1,000M	$1,000M or Below	Total
2016	2	0	2	1	3	45	53

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North Dakota Real* Personal Income by County:
2000 vs. 2016

	2000		2016		2000 - 2016
County	Constant Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Constant Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Net Percent Change	Net Change (1000s)	Share (%) of State Change
Adams	86,588	0.39	101,338	0.25	17.03	14,750	0.08
Barnes	388,382	1.73	547,256	1.37	40.91	158,874	0.91
Benson	167,223	0.74	239,449	0.60	43.19	72,226	0.41
Billings	20,948	0.09	67,172	0.17	220.66	46,224	0.27
Bottineau	250,759	1.12	345,839	0.87	37.92	95,080	0.55
Bowman	109,578	0.49	178,649	0.45	63.03	69,070	0.40
Burke	77,127	0.34	135,862	0.34	76.15	58,735	0.34
Burleigh	2,594,859	11.55	5,481,399	13.73	111.24	2,886,540	16.55
Cass	5,123,074	22.80	9,410,178	23.57	83.68	4,287,103	24.58
Cavalier	213,976	0.95	250,045	0.63	16.86	36,069	0.21
Dickey	197,987	0.88	266,998	0.67	34.86	69,011	0.40
Divide	80,873	0.36	103,831	0.26	28.39	22,958	0.13
Dunn	104,086	0.46	236,309	0.59	127.03	132,224	0.76
Eddy	76,842	0.34	129,378	0.32	68.37	52,537	0.30
Emmons	125,786	0.56	167,253	0.42	32.97	41,467	0.24
Foster	130,403	0.58	173,587	0.43	33.12	43,184	0.25
Golden Valley	44,415	0.20	64,930	0.16	46.19	20,515	0.12
Grand Forks	2,222,702	9.89	3,417,465	8.56	53.75	1,194,763	6.85
Grant	90,615	0.40	97,028	0.24	7.08	6,413	0.04
Griggs	95,276	0.42	120,396	0.30	26.36	25,120	0.14
Hettinger	113,351	0.50	100,156	0.25	-11.64	-13,195	-0.08
Kidder	82,486	0.37	118,105	0.30	43.18	35,618	0.20
LaMoure	165,142	0.73	202,843	0.51	22.83	37,701	0.22
Logan	81,850	0.36	103,402	0.26	26.33	21,553	0.12
McHenry	157,297	0.70	280,629	0.70	78.41	123,331	0.71
McIntosh	118,554	0.53	134,932	0.34	13.82	16,378	0.09
McKenzie	178,735	0.80	714,896	1.79	299.97	536,160	3.07
McLean	289,756	1.29	499,531	1.25	72.40	209,775	1.20
Mercer	311,774	1.39	508,636	1.27	63.14	196,862	1.13
Morton	777,729	3.46	1,576,842	3.95	102.75	799,113	4.58
Mountrail	204,957	0.91	554,718	1.39	170.65	349,761	2.01
Nelson	118,176	0.53	161,507	0.40	36.67	43,331	0.25
Oliver	61,448	0.27	87,820	0.22	42.92	26,372	0.15
Pembina	375,529	1.67	388,964	0.97	3.58	13,435	0.08
Pierce	149,450	0.66	185,123	0.46	23.87	35,673	0.20
Ramsey	391,298	1.74	566,693	1.42	44.82	175,395	1.01
Ransom	201,090	0.89	275,808	0.69	37.16	74,717	0.43
Renville	95,810	0.43	138,694	0.35	44.76	42,884	0.25
Richland	582,970	2.59	789,617	1.98	35.45	206,647	1.18
Rolette	335,609	1.49	502,022	1.26	49.59	166,413	0.95
Sargent	178,147	0.79	211,570	0.53	18.76	33,422	0.19
Sheridan	43,285	0.19	51,140	0.13	18.15	7,854	0.05
Sioux	81,556	0.36	118,831	0.30	45.71	37,276	0.21
Slope	29,787	0.13	27,965	0.07	-6.12	-1,822	-0.01
Stark	694,553	3.09	1,849,104	4.63	166.23	1,154,551	6.62
Steele	83,936	0.37	105,422	0.26	25.60	21,486	0.12
Stutsman	743,431	3.31	1,056,189	2.65	42.07	312,758	1.79
Towner	112,966	0.50	119,900	0.30	6.14	6,934	0.04
Traill	294,099	1.31	382,323	0.96	30.00	88,223	0.51
Walsh	418,034	1.86	519,964	1.30	24.38	101,930	0.58
Ward	2,040,248	9.08	3,635,043	9.11	78.17	1,594,795	9.14
Wells	152,287	0.68	222,924	0.56	46.38	70,638	0.40
Williams	607,595	2.70	2,191,323	5.49	260.66	1,583,728	9.08

North Dakota	22,474,434	100.00	39,916,994	100.00	77.61	17,442,559	100.00
Metropolitan	10,779,812	47.96	19,973,703	50.04	85.29	9,193,890	52.71
Nonmetropolitan	11,694,622	52.04	19,943,291	49.96	70.53	8,248,669	47.29

United States	11,677,052,911		16,162,082,333		38.41	4,485,029,422
Metropolitan U.S.	10,325,098,869		14,408,093,022		39.54	4,082,994,153
Nonmetropolitan U.S.	1,351,954,042		1,753,989,311		29.74	402,035,268

*Real total personal income determined using the Implicit Price Deflator for
Personal Consumption (2017=1.00).

Source: Calculations by the North Dakota Regional Economic Analysis Project (ND-REAP)
with data provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis

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North Dakota Personal Income by County:
2000 vs. 2016

	2000		2016		2000 - 2016
County	Current Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Current Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Net Percent Change	Net Change (1000s)	Share (%) of State Change
Adams	63,921	0.39	99,599	0.25	55.82	35,678	0.16
Barnes	286,711	1.73	537,865	1.37	87.60	251,154	1.11
Benson	123,447	0.74	235,340	0.60	90.64	111,893	0.49
Billings	15,464	0.09	66,019	0.17	326.92	50,555	0.22
Bottineau	185,115	1.12	339,904	0.87	83.62	154,789	0.68
Bowman	80,893	0.49	175,583	0.45	117.06	94,690	0.42
Burke	56,937	0.34	133,531	0.34	134.52	76,594	0.34
Burleigh	1,915,577	11.55	5,387,338	13.73	181.24	3,471,761	15.33
Cass	3,781,956	22.80	9,248,699	23.57	144.55	5,466,743	24.15
Cavalier	157,961	0.95	245,754	0.63	55.58	87,793	0.39
Dickey	146,158	0.88	262,416	0.67	79.54	116,258	0.51
Divide	59,702	0.36	102,049	0.26	70.93	42,347	0.19
Dunn	76,838	0.46	232,254	0.59	202.26	155,416	0.69
Eddy	56,726	0.34	127,158	0.32	124.16	70,432	0.31
Emmons	92,858	0.56	164,383	0.42	77.03	71,525	0.32
Foster	96,266	0.58	170,608	0.43	77.23	74,342	0.33
Golden Valley	32,788	0.20	63,816	0.16	94.63	31,028	0.14
Grand Forks	1,640,843	9.89	3,358,821	8.56	104.70	1,717,978	7.59
Grant	66,894	0.40	95,363	0.24	42.56	28,469	0.13
Griggs	70,335	0.42	118,330	0.30	68.24	47,995	0.21
Hettinger	83,678	0.50	98,437	0.25	17.64	14,759	0.07
Kidder	60,893	0.37	116,078	0.30	90.63	55,185	0.24
LaMoure	121,911	0.73	199,362	0.51	63.53	77,451	0.34
Logan	60,423	0.36	101,628	0.26	68.19	41,205	0.18
McHenry	116,120	0.70	275,813	0.70	137.52	159,693	0.71
McIntosh	87,519	0.53	132,617	0.34	51.53	45,098	0.20
McKenzie	131,946	0.80	702,628	1.79	432.51	570,682	2.52
McLean	213,904	1.29	490,959	1.25	129.52	277,055	1.22
Mercer	230,158	1.39	499,908	1.27	117.20	269,750	1.19
Morton	574,135	3.46	1,549,783	3.95	169.93	975,648	4.31
Mountrail	151,303	0.91	545,199	1.39	260.34	393,896	1.74
Nelson	87,240	0.53	158,736	0.40	81.95	71,496	0.32
Oliver	45,362	0.27	86,313	0.22	90.28	40,951	0.18
Pembina	277,223	1.67	382,289	0.97	37.90	105,066	0.46
Pierce	110,327	0.66	181,946	0.46	64.92	71,619	0.32
Ramsey	288,864	1.74	556,969	1.42	92.81	268,105	1.18
Ransom	148,449	0.89	271,075	0.69	82.60	122,626	0.54
Renville	70,729	0.43	136,314	0.35	92.73	65,585	0.29
Richland	430,360	2.59	776,067	1.98	80.33	345,707	1.53
Rolette	247,753	1.49	493,407	1.26	99.15	245,654	1.08
Sargent	131,512	0.79	207,939	0.53	58.11	76,427	0.34
Sheridan	31,954	0.19	50,262	0.13	57.29	18,308	0.08
Sioux	60,206	0.36	116,792	0.30	93.99	56,586	0.25
Slope	21,989	0.13	27,485	0.07	24.99	5,496	0.02
Stark	512,733	3.09	1,817,373	4.63	254.45	1,304,640	5.76
Steele	61,963	0.37	103,613	0.26	67.22	41,650	0.18
Stutsman	548,816	3.31	1,038,065	2.65	89.15	489,249	2.16
Towner	83,394	0.50	117,843	0.30	41.31	34,449	0.15
Traill	217,110	1.31	375,762	0.96	73.07	158,652	0.70
Walsh	308,601	1.86	511,041	1.30	65.60	202,440	0.89
Ward	1,506,152	9.08	3,572,666	9.11	137.20	2,066,514	9.13
Wells	112,421	0.68	219,099	0.56	94.89	106,678	0.47
Williams	448,539	2.70	2,153,720	5.49	380.16	1,705,181	7.53

North Dakota	16,591,077	100.00	39,232,018	100.00	136.46	22,640,941	100.00
Metropolitan	7,957,873	47.96	19,630,954	50.04	146.69	11,673,081	51.56
Nonmetropolitan	8,633,204	52.04	19,601,064	49.96	127.04	10,967,860	48.44

United States	8,620,234,000		15,884,741,000		84.27	7,264,507,000
Metropolitan U.S.	7,622,194,487		14,160,850,146		85.78	6,538,655,659
Nonmetropolitan U.S.	998,039,513		1,723,890,854		72.73	725,851,341

Source: Calculations by the North Dakota Regional Economic Analysis Project (ND-REAP)
with data provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis

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