VENTURA (cont'd)

VENTURA COUNTY (cont'd)
INDUSTRY 1982 1987 ($ mill.)
Value added by manufacture, ($ mill.) 1,232.3 2,201.3 Capital expenditures:
Percent of California 1.3 1.7 1982 143.9
1987 98.2
Leading industries:
Industrial machinery and equipment 351.1 Payroll in manufacturing:
Food and kindred products 242.8 1987 920.2
Chemicals and allied products 149.1 1990* 1,052.3
Paper and allied products 127.4
Printing and publishing 99.8 Number of mfg. establishments:
1987 836
* Not comparable with 1987 due to source difference. 1990* 932
AGRICULTURE
Number of farms, 1992 2,195 Leading commodities with
Acreage in farms, 1992 320,597 value of production, 1994 $ mill.
% of land area 27.1
Lemons 198.3
Agricultural employment, 1994 18,000 Strawberries 129.1
Celery 90.1
Value of production, 1994 ($ mill.) 851.9 Nursery stock 82.2
Percent of California 3.5 Avocados 69.6
County Rank 11 Oranges, valencia 42.5
Livestock and livestock products 6.2 Lettuce 31.7
Poultry and poultry products 14.3 Flowers, cut 28.7
Field crops 11.4 Broccoli 16.1
Vegetables 257.0 Onions, all 9.0
Fruits and nuts 451.5
Nursery products 111.2
Seed crops 0.0
Apiary products 0.3
TRANSPORTATION
Vehicle registrations, 1994
Total 571,708 Miles of streets, roads and
Automobiles 403,731 highways, 1994 2,711.5
Per capita (7-1-94 pop.) 0.57
Trucks 114,513
Motorcycles 14,724
Trailers 38,740
PUBLIC FINANCE
Per Per
1993-94 $ mill. capita* $1,000 income** 1993-94 $ mill.
County government tax collections, total 90.8 129.04 5.95 Expenditures:
Property tax 82.8 117.69 5.42 Federal 2,811.3
Sales tax 4.8 6.86 0.32 Defense 1,069.1
County 572.1
Total receipts, local government 1,944.3 City 409.3
School districts 623.2
* 7-1-93 population Special districts 266.8
** 1993 personal income Redevelopment agencies 88.7
California Department of Finance
Economic Research
(916) 322-2263 February, 1996

Last Update: 8/16/2006

Name: State of California