Annual Personal Income Per Capita as a Percent of US Annual Personal Income Per Capita

Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville Metropolitan Areas – 1970-1998

Data and source notes are below graph.

For the income data used to calculate these percentages, see

Annual Personal Income Per Capita
as a Percent of US Annual Personal Income Per Capita, 1970-1998


	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1995	1998

Charleston - North Charleston	80.9	82.2	80.4	83.7	84.9	79.3	79.1

Columbia	86.0	89.5	85.6	91.7	95.2	94.8	95.6

Greenville - Spartanburg - Anderson	80.0	80.6	81.9	82.4	85.9	88.5	87.2

South Carolina Rank	74.8 47	76.7 48	76.5 48	79.3 44	82.0 39	82.6 41	82.2 39

The per capita income data were obtained from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis's Web page entitled Regional Accounts Data, Local Personal Income. The data were downloaded in February 2001 as a self-extracting zipped file, CA1_3.exe. They had been updated on June 15, 2000.
The SC rankings compared with other states were calculated from the BEA's State Personal Income data - scroll down for yearly data

Data for these tables were obtained from the Bureau of Economic Analysis Web site at: http://www.bea.gov/histdata/RMyearAPFfiles.asp?docDir=/2001/PI/local/initial_May-06-2003