{
  "id": "income-county-context",
  "question": "What changed in King County’s broader property income?",
  "hint": "Combined dividends, interest and rent",
  "answer": "King County BEA dividends, interest and rent reached $81.47 billion in 2024, up 5.62% from 2023.",
  "period": "Calendar years 2023 and 2024",
  "limit": "Different definitions and populations. BEA and ACS do not establish persistence or reversal of the exact IRS ordinary or qualified dividend series after TY2023. The county line combines dividends, interest and rent and cannot identify dividends alone.",
  "status": "reviewed",
  "children": [],
  "related": [
    "income-state-context",
    "income-household-context"
  ],
  "findings": [
    {
      "id": "income-finding-bea-county",
      "title": "Combined county property income increased",
      "text": "The reviewed BEA county combined-income measure increased 5.62% from 2023 to 2024.",
      "limits": [
        "Includes broader national-accounts concepts and imputed components. It is not an independent reproduction of published IRS geography."
      ],
      "source_url": "https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/CAINC4.zip"
    }
  ],
  "plots": [],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "BEA county personal income by major component",
      "url": "https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/CAINC4.zip"
    },
    {
      "label": "BEA County Personal Income Concepts and Methods",
      "url": "https://www.bea.gov/system/files/methodologies/BEA-County-Personal-Income-Concepts-and-Methods.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "record_url": "/research/washington-income/2026-09-21/nodes/income-county-context/index.html",
  "as_of_date": "2026-09-21",
  "methods": "BEA CAINC4 county component line 46, using the retained source updated February 5, 2026. This county result is in the data and report; the four-panel context figure does not plot this county BEA series.",
  "lineage_ids": [
    "N4a-county-context"
  ],
  "publication_state": "prepared",
  "record_json_url": "/research/washington-income/2026-09-21/nodes/income-county-context/record.json"
}