Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story.
Annual per capita income in urban areas: $24,697
… in rural areas: $19,381
Percentage of Oregon adults with a high school degree: 91
Number of one-teacher schools in Oregon: 8
Estimated daily number of visitors to the 43,000-square-foot Powell’s Books in Portland: 6,000
Unemployment rate in urban areas: 5.0 percent
… in rural areas: 8.1 percent
Number of Oregonians employed by Boise Cascade: 3,309
Number employed by Wal-Mart: 5,140
Estimated number of coho salmon in Oregon’s northern Coast Range in the 1930s: 150,000
Number found in 1997: less than 1,000
Number of Starbucks Coffee stores in Oregon in 1989: 1
Number of Starbucks Coffee stores in Oregon in 1998 (including the one in the Multnomah County Public Library in Portland): 72
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Oregon statistics.
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