 About 1.3% of families and 2.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.7% of those under age 18 and 1.0% of those age 65 or over.The town was home to a J. E. Ashworth & Sons blanket mill.Originally the Sturtevant woolen-mills, it was operated by water-power, had five looms, employed twelve men, and made 10,000 blankets per year.