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Characteristics of principal farm operator households, by gross farm sales, 2011 | Unnamed: 1 | Unnamed: 2 | Unnamed: 3 | Unnamed: 4
 | Gross sales of farm
Item | Less than $10,000 | $10,000 to $249,999 | $250,000 or more | All
Number of family farms | 1255816.34894208 | 639430.278500136 | 219421.674084242 | 2114668.30152646
Percent of family farms | 59.3859731115078 | 30.2378523401786 | 10.3761745483135 | 99.9999999999998
Number of total operators | 1780708.94376745 | 934756.75047702 | 359816.248137821 | 3075281.94238227
Number of family members | 3206599.5851006 | 1671370.59051703 | 642113.397521992 | 5520083.57313966
 | Income, mean dollars per household
Farm income | -6537.63073008432 | 8060.70638146583 | 154859.468104544 | 14623.4375808229
Off-farm income | 77045.097264781 | 71718.9502362399 | 50355.7528706309 | 72665.251830733
Earned income | 54080.1616021597 | 51389.9638652112 | 35861.4638548281 | 51376.2997041097
Unearned income | 22964.9356626216 | 20328.9863710283 | 14494.2890158027 | 21288.952126623
Total income | 70507.4665346971 | 79779.6566177056 | 205215.220975175 | 87288.6894115557
 | Percent
Mean farm income as a percent of total farm household income | -9.27225306963357 | 10.1037115515447 | 75.5513030407057 | 16.8270858515205
 | Income, median dollars per household
Farm income | -4112 | 3065 | 84649 | -2250
Off-farm income | 55000 | 51031 | 29250 | 53424
Earned income | 35433 | 28298 | 12500 | 32500
Unearned income | 14250 | 9000 | 2750 | 12500
Total income | 52262 | 60990 | 127009 | 57050
 | Balance sheet, mean dollars per household
Total assets | 694202.137556909 | 1247896.53292803 | 3295303.58315789 | 1131522.25741933
Farm assets | 428523.157255726 | 965581.732724944 | 2988918.40934404 | 856589.216769802
Nonfarm assets | 265678.980301181 | 282314.80020309 | 306385.173813842 | 274933.040649546
Total debt | 69092.311343728 | 109232.264597693 | 444792.729133741 | 120213.102266713
Farm debt | 20045.2570931248 | 60864.5711646041 | 376616.06037155 | 69386.5499448262
Nonfarm debt | 49047.0542506029 | 48367.6934330889 | 68176.6687621887 | 50826.5523218878
Total net worth | 625109.82621318 | 1138664.26833034 | 2850510.85402415 | 1011309.15515263
 | Balance sheet, median dollars per household
Total assets | 500427 | 895669 | 2227713 | 672500
Farm assets | 287363 | 663751 | 1973951 | 412300
Nonfarm assets | 184881 | 163250 | 172806 | 178500
Total debt | 17061 | 33755 | 207576 | 34300
Farm debt | 421 | 2325 | 145896 | 800
Nonfarm debt | 1500 | 0 | 250 | 250
Total net worth | 444212 | 800974 | 1924793 | 597767
 | Farm and Household Characteristics
Percent of total value of production | 1.18927406976893 | 16.5390557708481 | 82.2716701593829 | 100
Percent of all acres | 13.7093038146273 | 37.4002429618538 | 48.8904532235188 | 99.9999999999999
Farm size (mean acres operated) | 88.6244771149288 | 474.838193127575 | 1808.87666618451 | 383.903580089393
Share of beginning farms
Established farm | 73.6088900704019 | 83.5377440018676 | 91.2592384832459 | 78.4425932209727
Beginning farm | 26.3911099295979 | 16.4622559981323 | 8.74076151675409 | 21.5574067790272
Farms receiving government payments | 256433.681142964 | 320229.156500977 | 164574.282944296 | 741237.120588239
Percent of all farms receiving payments | 34.5953641581605 | 43.2019859241327 | 22.2026499177067 | 100
Percent of farms within group receiving payments | 20.4196801036224 | 50.0803867549273 | 75.0036584267017 | 35.052169650114
Percent of all payments | 8.7610095947237 | 31.3134872688048 | 59.9255031364714 | 100
Major occupation of principal operator
Farm or ranch work | 30.5784124399222 | 60.741212132325 | 92.4895614486342 | 46.1230041585854
Work other than farming/ranching | 50.2816916484731 | 32.8081787041403 | 7.05319385718829 | 40.5126122202863
Currently not in the workforce | 19.1398959116045 | 6.45060916353459 | 0.45724469417764 | 13.3643836211285
Education of principal operator
Less than high school | 9.86416271662733 | 8.4506973187732 | 4.50967261318735 | 8.88116989743959
High school and some college | 65.2591337906558 | 67.2416887906359 | 70.0894094290523 | 66.3598136755175
4-year college degree or more | 24.8767034927166 | 24.3076138905908 | 25.4009179577607 | 24.7590164270431
Race and origin of principal operator
White, not Hispanic | 83.379778045079 | 89.8832448855433 | 89.8026463451513 | 86.0127347711149
Nonwhite or Hispanic | 16.6202219549208 | 10.1167551144565 | 10.1973536548488 | 13.987265228885
Source:  2011 USDA Agricultural Resource Management Survey.