Hennepin County, MN Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Hennepin County, Minnesota Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Hennepin County is 556.62 square miles. There are on average 2,003 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,116,200 people living in the county within 456,129 households (averaging 2.39 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,156,212 with an estimated 3.6% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Hennepin County, MN was $28,789. By 2007 the income was $56,280. The average income in each household was $62,275 in 2008. The percentage of Hennepin County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 11.0%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $63,706 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $63,479 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 505,553 housing units within the county, a change of 36,728 from 2000 (or about 7.8%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 66.2%. The median value of each house was about $143,400 in the county in 2000. 1,248 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $298,637 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Hennepin County births in the year 2006 was 16,781 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 7,477. Infant deaths that year numbered 82.

In 2007, Hennepin County, MN jobs totaled 1,067,926 across all industries. This was a change of 10,192 jobs from 2000. The number of Hennepin County jobs in government in 2007 was 100,680. Workers traveled an average of 22.2 minutes to work each day.

There were 110,993 businesses in Hennepin County in 2002. These include 28.5% of businesses listed as owned by women, 4.3% of businesses owned by blacks, 1.1% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 2.6% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.4% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Hennepin County devoted to farming was 66,558 acres in 2007.

In 2000 12.8% of residents spoke a language other than English at home. The percent of the county's population who were born in a foreign country was 9.9%.

The percentage of adults in Hennepin County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 90.6%. About 39.1% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Hennepin County with a disability is 147,296.

There were 661,816 civilians working in Hennepin County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 49,109 (or 7.4% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $2,486,397 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 80,292 residents less than five years old, (6.9% of residents), 261,191 less than eighteen years old (22.6% of residents), and 129,035 of the population of Hennepin County was over the age of sixty-five (11.2% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.5%. The population classified as white was 922,333 (79.8%), black: 126,221 (10.9%), Asian: 67,549 (5.8%), two or more races: 24,876 (2.2%), Hispanic or Latino: 74,469 (6.4%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Hennepin County, MN was $17,084,300 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $55,640,960 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $16,970,984 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $67,790,991 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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