Per Capita Income Up 3% to $2514
Per capita income in the District of Columbia rose 3 per cent in 1957 to $2514, 24 per cent above the national average of $2027, a Department of Commerce survey</br></br>This rise, matching the national average, kept the District in fifth place behind Connecticut ($2841), Delaware ($2740), New York ($2578) and California ($2523).</br></br>D.	C. was put at $2,089,000,000, also a 3 per cent increase. For the Nation as a whole, personal income rose 5 per cent to $345 billion.</br></br>The Commerce Department said a 3V2 per cent jump in consumer prices last year offset a good part of the average increase in personal income.</br></br>Although all jurisdictions showed an increase in total personal income, five states suffered a drop in per capita figures because population increases outstripped the rise in income.