Rank of Maine

SUBJECT	1=	YEAR	RANK	MAINE	U.S.
Agriculture
Land in farms, percent Land in farms, thousands of acres USDA Average acres per farm Average acres per farm***** Number of farms Number of farms Net farm income, millions Net farm income, millions Acres planted	High High High High High High High High High	1992 2000 1990 2000 1990 2000 1990 1999 1991	43 47 36 37 41 41 41 43 44	15% 1,270 199 187 7,300 6,800 $151 $98 369,000	43.6% 943,090 460 434 2,143,150 2,172,000 $50,832 $43,398 314,342,000
Economy
Civilian Labor Force*** Unemployment rate*** Btu consumption per capita	High High High	2000 2000 1989	39 35 38	689,000 3.5% 279,400,000	140,863,000 4.0 327,600,000
Education
Median public school student/teacher ratio* Primary School Middle School High School Average annual salary of instructional staff in public elementary and secondary schools (Alaska and Hawaii not included until 1960; California missing in 1950.) Current expenditures per pupil in fall enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools in constant 1998-99 dollars (school year ending in noted year). Percent of persons over 25 who completed high school or more completed 4 years of college or more	Low Low Low High High High High High High High High High High High High High	2000-2001 2000-2001 2000-2001 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 1970 1980 1990 1999 2000 2000	7 13 17 39 40 47 31 42 37 31 36 40 15 14 12 28	13.4 14.1 13.9 $894 $2,115 $3,694 $8,059 $13,743 $27,831 $38,762 $2,828 $3,586 $6,304 $6,828 89.3% 24.1%	16.0 15.5 14.8 $1,441 $3,010 $5,174 $9,047 $16,715 $32,638 $43,768 $3,272 $4,426 $6,016 $6,508 83.4% 25.2%
Energy
Energy prices, $ per million Btu Btu consumption per capita	High High	1989 1989	10 38	9.13 279,400,000	7.72 327,600,000
Geography
Land area, square miles Water area, square miles Federally owned land, percent*****	High High High	1992 1990 2000	39 12 47	33,400 4,523 0.9%	3,536,342 251,083 28.0%
Government
Percent of eligible voters who voted Percent of eligible voters who voted sos Percent of registered voters of all eligible voters Percent of registered voters of all eligible voters Federal aid to state and local governments per capita Federal expenditures per capita State government revenue per capita State government revenue per capita State government expenditures per capita State government employees per 10,000 population	High High High High High High High High High High	1990 2000 1990 2000 1988 1990 1990 1999 1999 1990	1 2 3 12 18 19 16 21 28	64.7% 67.3 81.3% $551 $4,011 $2,643 $4,699 $3,883 179	45.0% 53.8 62.2% n.a. $3,974 $2,515 $4,236 $3,668 154
Health and Human Services
Birth Rate, per 1,000 population Birth Rate, per 1,000 population Birth Rate, per 1,000 population Birth Rate, per 1,000 population aged 15-19 years Birth Rate, per 1,000 population aged 15-19 years Death Rate, per 1,000 population Death Rate, per 1,000 population Death Rate, per 1,000 population Deaths by Suicide, per 100,000 population Deaths by Suicide, per 100,000 population % children living in poverty % children living at/below 200% of poverty % children living at/below 200% of poverty % of children living at/below 200% of poverty, no health insurance % of children living at/ below 200% of poverty, no health insurance % of people without health Insurance for the entire year AIDS Cases, per 100,000 population AIDS Cases, per 100,000 population Low birth weights as a percent of live births Low birth weights as a percent of live births Low birth weights as a percent of live births Births to teens as a percent of all live births Births to teens as a percent of all live births Average lifetime in years Physicians per 1,000 persons*** Nurses per 1,000 persons***	High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High	1980 1990 2000 1991 2000 1980 1990 2000 1989 2000 2000 1993-1995 1999-2001 1993-1995 1999-2001 2000 1991 2000 1980 1989 1999 1980 1988 1979-1981 1999 1999	41 49 51 41 46 8 17 29 13 16 18 20 25 22 3 17 37 n.a. 29 48 30 30 19 24 10	14.6 13.1 10.8 45.3 28.7 9.6 9.0 8.9 13.9 13.7 13.7% 38.3% 34.5% 7.4% 3.4% 10.9% 4.4 1.3 6.5% 4.9% 6.0% 15.3% 10.0% 74.6 2.32 10.85	15.9 16.7 14.7 62.1 48.5 8.8 8.6 8.7 12.2 15.7 16.6% - 38.1% - 7.9% 14.1% 16.7 5.3 6.8% 7.0% 15.6% 12.5% 73.9 2.54 8.33
Income
Per capita personal income Per capita personal income Per capita personal income Per capita personal income Gross state product per capita****** Median household income Median household income Average annual wages & salaries per worker** Average annual wages & salaries per worker**** Persons below the poverty level, average	High High High High High High High High High High	1970 1980 1990 2000 1999 1990 1998-2000 1990 2000 1998-2000	37 39 32 37 45 28 27 37 39 36	$3,409 $8,259 $17,167 $25,623 $25,800 $28,793 $41,597 $19,770 $27,264 9.8%	$4,072 $10,029 $19,142 $29,676 $32,763 $30,163 $42,148 $34,628 11.9%
Population
Population Population Population Population Population Population Population increase, percent 1990-2000 Households Households Persons per square mile*** Metropolitan area population*** American Indian population, percent American Indian population, percent Asian population, percent Asian population, percent Black population, percent Black population, percent	High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High	1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2000 1990 2000 2000 2000 1990 2000 1990 2000 1990 2000	35 36 38 38 39 40 46 39 39 39 45 22 22 42 43 47 48	913,774 969,000 994,000 1,124,660 1,227,928 1,274,923 3.8% 465,312 518,200 41.3 467,000 0.5% 0.6% 0.5% 0.7% 0.4% 0.5%	151,325,798 179,323,000 203,302,000 226,504,825 248,709,873 281,421,906 13.2% 91,947,410 105,480,101 79.6 225,968,000 0.8% 0.9% 2.9% 3.6% 12.1 12.3%
Public Safety
Number of prisoners sentenced to one year or more Rate of prisoner incarceration per 100,000 residents Crime rate per 100,000persons*** Violent crime rate per 100,000 persons***	High High High High	2000 2000 2000 2000	- 50 47 50	1,679 129 2,619.8 109.6	1,381,892 478 4,124.0 506.1
Taxes
Total state tax collections per capita State and local taxes as a percent of personal income*** State and local taxes per capita*** State taxes per capita*** Local taxes per capita*** Property taxes as a percent of local taxes* Property tax per $1,000 of personal income** Property tax as a percent of personal income***@ Property tax per capita Sales Tax rate Sales Tax rate State sales tax collections, per capita State individual income tax as a percent of personal income***** State individual income tax per capita*** State individual income tax per capita State corporate income tax per capita***** State corporate income tax per capita	High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High	2000 1996 1996 1996 1996 1991 1992 1996 1990 1992 2002 2000 1996 1996 2000 1996 2000	14 6 16 22 15 5 14 3 16 6 18 15 40 15 15 18	$2,087.25 12.9% $2,600 $1,526 $1,074 98.6% $45 5.4% $722 6% 5% $934.17 2.8% $571 $845 $57 $118	$1,921.46 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 75.7% n.a. n.a. $626 6% $898.26 n.a. $692 n.a. $115

Sources are U.S. Census unless otherwise noted.
*Excluding non-reporting states of Massachusetts and Tennessee
**The New York Times 2002 Almanac. New York: Penguin. 2001
***Philip M. Dearborn. "Local Property Taxes: Emerging Trends." Intergovernmental Perspective. Summer, 1993.
****1993 Information Please Almanac. Houghton Mifflin. New York. 1992.
*****Louise L. Horner., Ed. Almanac of the 50 States: Basic Data Profiles with Comparative Tables. Palo Alto, California. Information Publications. 2002.
******Helmut Wendel, et al. State Profiles: The Population and Economy of Each U.S. State. Lanham, MD: 2002.
******* Kendra and Harold Hovey. CQ's State Fact Finder 2000. Washington, DC. CQ Press. 2000.
@New England states rank: New Hampshire=1, Vermont=2, Rhode Island=5, Connecticut=11, Massachusetts=17.
********Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Fedgazette. September, 2001.
sos Department of the Maine Secretary of State