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Reliance on Personal Property Taxation

(1988 State Equalized Value and 1998 Taxable Value in millions of dollars)

Chippewa County	--------------1988--------------			--------------1998--------------			Personal Property 1988-1998
Municipalities	Total Property	Personal Property	Ratio of Personal to Total Property	Total Property	Personal Property	Ratio of Personal to Total Property	Dollar Change	Percent Change
Bay Mills Twp	$9.518	$0.321	3.4%	$21.851	$1.426	6.5%	$1.104	343.5%
Bruce Twp	$13.788	$0.435	3.2%	$31.038	$1.887	6.1%	$1.452	334.0%
Chippewa Twp	$1.782	$0.256	14.3%	$3.721	$0.603	16.2%	$0.347	135.7%
Dafter Twp	$8.715	$1.553	17.8%	$17.491	$1.735	9.9%	$0.182	11.7%
Detour Twp	$13.237	$0.944	7.1%	$26.657	$0.735	2.8%	$ (0.210)	-22.2%
Drummond Twp	$27.773	$2.096	7.5%	$56.595	$1.951	3.4%	$ (0.145)	-6.9%
Hulbert Twp	$2.554	$0.084	3.3%	$4.605	$0.114	2.5%	$0.030	36.2%
Kinross Charter Twp	$15.363	$5.790	37.7%	$31.511	$4.600	14.6%	$ (1.190)	-20.6%
Pickford Twp	$11.224	$0.606	5.4%	$23.258	$1.047	4.5%	$0.441	72.8%
Raber Twp	$8.961	$0.322	3.6%	$17.664	$0.543	3.1%	$0.222	68.9%
Rudyard Twp	$10.917	$1.777	16.3%	$19.502	$2.308	11.8%	$0.530	29.8%
Sault Ste. Marie City	$91.482	$10.282	11.2%	$211.063	$20.276	9.6%	$9.994	97.2%
Soo Twp	$20.507	$1.863	9.1%	$54.834	$3.961	7.2%	$2.098	112.7%
Sugar Island Twp	$8.182	$0.258	3.2%	$16.469	$0.395	2.4%	$0.137	53.3%
Superior Twp	$7.731	$0.648	8.4%	$19.319	$1.904	9.9%	$1.255	193.6%
Trout Lake Twp	$6.297	$0.526	8.4%	$12.542	$0.748	6.0%	$0.222	42.1%
Whitefish Twp	$18.198	$1.304	7.2%	$31.597	$2.945	9.3%	$1.641	125.9%
Totals	$276.230	$29.064	10.5%	$599.718	$47.176	7.9%	$18.112	62.3%

5 municipalities increased their reliance on personal property, 12 decreased.