Table VII
Per Capita Personal Income And
Per Capita Taxes in Vermont

Table VII and Table VIII are from Chapter 8 and were included to illustrate that Vermont had experienced an increase in tax burdens in order to meet gains in average income. Vermont had long been below the national average in terms of the earning capacity of its citizens. As Table VIII shows, in the seventeen-year period between 1937 and 1964, there was a phenomenal increase in state and local taxes.

 

Year

Per Capita Income in Vermont
National Average Per Capita Income
Per Capita 
State Taxes
Per Capita 
Town Taxes
1950
$ 1185
$ 1491
$   59.71
$   49.54
1958
   1745
   2068
     94.37
     85.92
1960
   1851
   2217
   112.10
     96.80
1962
   2052
   2449
   126.00
   109.55
1964
   NA
   NA
   132.92
   126.17


Data taken from materials in several sources, all based in turn upon the federal Census Reports, or upon state reports.

Current Per Capita Income statistics can be found in the State Indebtedness section of the State of Vermont Information Sheet, or from the U.S Census Bureau. We are currently searching for a source of updated information on Per Capita Taxes.


Table VIII

Nuquist Index


Comments to: crs@uvm.edu Reviewed on 6/23/97