At a glance
The following list shows 2016 per capita personal income for northeast Indiana counties and the state, followed by how much that number increased (or decreased) from the prior year:
| County |
Income |
Change |
| Adams |
$35,288 |
2.3 percent |
| Allen |
$42,633 |
2.4 percent |
| DeKalb |
$39,682 |
3.5 percent |
| Huntington |
$38,155 |
2.5 percent |
| Kosciusko |
$42,278 |
5.1 percent |
| Noble |
$35,856 |
2.6 percent |
| Steuben |
$38,033 |
3.3 percent |
| Wells |
$39,264 |
2.3 percent |
| Whitley |
$40,731 |
3.7 percent |
| Indiana |
$43,097 |
3.4 percent |
By the numbers
This list shows each northeast Indiana county's rank for per capita personal income, with No. 1 being the highest and No. 92 being the lowest:
| Adams |
79 |
| Allen |
16 |
| DeKalb |
40 |
| Huntington |
54 |
| Kosciusko |
19 |
| Noble |
72 |
| Steuben |
56 |
| Wells |
42 |
| Whitley |
31 |
| Indiana |
34 |
Eight of nine northeast Indiana counties saw per capita personal income increase last year as compared with 2015, according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
But the rates of those increases were modest compared to the state's other 83 counties, data show.
Even so, local economic development officials are finding reasons to celebrate, including the fact that each Allen County resident had $990 more to spend in 2016 than the year before.
Personal income includes wages, earnings from investments and government benefits, such as Social Security payments. Per capital personal income is determined by dividing the total personal income by the population of an area – babies and the elderly included.
Per capita personal income has been the top metric for measuring the region's progress for about the past decade because it reflects the quality of jobs in the region, not just the number of jobs, according to officials with the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership.
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