Douglas County Per Capita Personal Income Rises in 2019
January 5, 2021 The U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis released its 2019 estimates of personal income for substate areas (counties and townships) in late November 2020.Personal income includes all forms of income including earnings by place of work, dividends, interest and rent, and government transfer payments (largely Social Security and Medicare). Total personal income is then divided by population to create per capita personal income (PCPI).
Douglas County’s inflation adjusted per capita personal income increased $523 (1.3%) to reach $42,334 in 2019 while the statewide and national figures rose $758 (1.4%) and $895 (1.6%), respectively.
Douglas County’s total personal income grew by approximately $176 million in 2019 to reach $4.7 billion, a 3.9% increase over 2018. When the data are adjusted for inflation, however, total personal income increased by $94 million, or 2.0%.


More information, including the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on statewide personal income, is available in the article Oregon's Per Capita Personal Income 2019.