TULARE (cont'd)

TULARE COUNTY (cont'd)
INDUSTRY 1982 1987 ($ mill.)
Value added by manufacture, ($ mill.) 517.3 705.9 Capital expenditures:
Percent of California 0.5 0.5 1982 28.7
1987 32.4
Leading industries:
Food and kindred products 267.4 Payroll in manufacturing:
Printing and publishing 110.5 1987 216.7
Lumber and wood products 59.4 1990* 279.1
Electronic and other electric equipment 52.0
Fabricated metal products 33.1 Number of mfg. establishments:
1987 301
Lumber production, 1994 (Thous. of board ft.) 12,998 1990* 266
Percent of California 0.6
* Not comparable with 1987 due to
source difference.
AGRICULTURE
Number of farms, 1992 5,469 Leading commodities with
Acreage in farms, 1992 1,354,262 value of production, 1994 $ mill.
% of land area 43.9
Milk 546.6
Agricultural employment, 1994 33,200 Oranges, navel and valencia 375.2
Grapes 364.1
Value of production, 1994 ($ mill.) 2,497.8 Cattle and calves 222.5
Percent of California 10.3 Cotton lint and seed 163.0
County Rank 2 Nectarines 90.4
Livestock and livestock products 817.9 Alfalfa, hay and silage 84.1
Poultry and poultry products 24.1 Plums 73.2
Field crops 345.3 Peaches, cling and freestone 63.1
Vegetables 65.1 Walnuts 45.8
Fruits and nuts 1,212.5
Nursery products 24.2
Seed crops 4.0
Apiary products 4.6
TRANSPORTATION
Vehicle registrations, 1994
Total 257,555 Miles of streets, roads and
Automobiles 146,842 highways, 1994 4,760.2
Per capita (7-1-94 pop.) 0.42
Trucks 73,439
Motorcycles 5,690
Trailers 31,584
PUBLIC FINANCE
Per Per
1993-94 $ mill. capita* $1,000 income** 1993-94 $ mill.
County government tax collections, total 43.6 126.91 8.41 Expenditures:
Property tax 33.1 96.43 6.39 Federal 1,071.4
Sales tax 4.5 13.05 0.86 Defense 24.9
County 334.8
Total receipts, local government 1,236.9 City 126.3
School districts 436.4
* 7-1-93 population Special districts 300.7
** 1993 personal income Redevelopment agencies 14.5
California Department of Finance
Economic Research
(916) 322-2263 February, 1996

Last Update: 8/30/96

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