INCOME AND BENEFITS (IN 2021 INFLATION-ADJUSTED DOLLARS) - DP03_SAR_T

SELECTED ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS

INCOME AND BENEFITS (IN 2021 INFLATION-ADJUSTED DOLLARS) - DP03

Universe - Total households

Survey-Program - American Community Survey 5-year estimates

Years - 2020, 2021

Total income is the sum of the amounts reported separately for wage or salary income; net self-employment income; interest, dividends, or net rental or royalty income or income from estates and trusts; Social Security or Railroad Retirement income; Supplemental Security Income (SSI); public assistance or welfare payments; retirement, survivor, or disability pensions; and all other income. Receipts from the following sources are not included as income: capital gains, money received from the sale of property (unless the recipient was engaged in the business of selling such property); the value of income “in kind” from food stamps, public housing subsidies, medical care, employer contributions for individuals, etc.; withdrawal of bank deposits; money borrowed; tax refunds; exchange of money between relatives living in the same household; gifts and lump-sum inheritances, insurance payments, and other types of lump sum receipts.