1955 - This is Knox County - Illinois Ancestors

More than 21 per cent had incomes of less than $2, 000, while18.3 per cent had incomes of 85,000 or more.In the field of education, the county had a total of8,450 young persons between the ages of seven and seventeenyears (school age). Of the 5,440 between the ages of sevenand thirteen (primary school age), 96.1 per cent were enrolledin primary schools, and of the 2, 535 between the agesof fourteen and seventeen (high school age), 90.9 were enrolledin high schools. The median number of school yearscompleted for all persons in the county twenty-five yearsold and over was given as 10.7 years.With reference to the county's labor force in 1950, thefigures show there were more persons employed in manufacturingthan in agriculture. The county then had a total potentiallabor force (persons fourteen years old and over) of41,649, and of this total 21,357 were actually employed(79.6 per cent of whom were males and 24.3 per cent females).The largest number of those employed, 4,273, were engaged inretail and wholesale trade, and the next largest group,3,839, were engaged in manufacturing. The total numbsT ofcf workers in agriculture was 3,245. Then came transportation,communication and other public utilities, 3,153;professional and related services, 1,769; business and personalservices, 1,217; construction, 1,081; finance, insuranceand real estate, 492; and mining, 298. The laborfigures were summed up by showing that 18. 5 per cent of thetotal employed were engaged in manufacturing, while 15.6were engaged in agriculture.23