Personal Income in Counties
Values for 2022 in current dollars. Size of mark is proportional to county population. The horizontal axis is the percent of the county that voted in the 2020 general election for Donald J. Trump.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce and the source of this data, says:
Personal income consists of the income that persons receive in return for their provision of labor, land, and capital used in current production as well as other income, such as personal current transfer receipts. In the state and local personal income accounts the personal income of an area represents the income received by or on behalf of the persons residing in that area. It is calculated as the sum of wages and salaries, supplements to wages and salaries, proprietors' income with inventory valuation (IVA) and capital consumption adjustments (CCAdj), rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment (CCAdj), personal dividend income, personal interest income, and personal current transfer receipts, less contributions for government social insurance plus the adjustment for residence. Per capita personal income is the personal income of a given area divided by the resident population of the area.
Source of original data is U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, plus author's calculations and charting. @bob_weeks, bob.weeks@gmail.com.