Minnesota Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Minnesota Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Minnesota is 79,610 square miles. There are on average 61.8 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 4,919,479 people living in the state within 1,895,127 households (averaging 2.52 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 5,266,214 with an estimated 7.0% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Minnesota was $23,198. By 2007 the income was $41,105. The average income in each household was $57,318 in 2008. The percentage of Minnesota residents living in poverty in 2008 was 9.6%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $213,022 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $46,982 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 2,332,105 housing units within the state of Minnesota, a change of 266,151 from 2000 (or about 12.9%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 74.6%. The median value of each house was about $122,400 in the state in 2000. 9,425 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $1,712,057 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Minnesota births in the year 2006 was 73,525 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 37,028. Infant deaths that year numbered 381.

In 2007, Minnesota jobs totaled 3,562,386 across all industries. This was a change of 218,868 jobs from 2000. The number of Minnesota jobs in government in 2007 was 421,628. Workers traveled an average of 21.9 minutes to work each day.

There were 443,827 businesses in Minnesota in 2002. These include 27.9% of businesses listed as owned by women, 1.8% of businesses owned by blacks, 0.9% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 1.7% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.6% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Minnesota devoted to farming was 26,917,962 acres in 2007.

In 2000 8.5% of residents spoke a language other than English at home. The percent of the state's population who were born in a foreign country was 5.3%.

The percentage of adults in Minnesota over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 87.9%. About 27.4% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Minnesota with a disability is 679,236.

There were 2,967,967 civilians working in Minnesota in 2009. The number unemployed was 236,279 (or 8.0% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $7,959,590 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 363,975 residents less than five years old, (6.9% of residents), 1,260,797 less than eighteen years old (23.9% of residents), and 671,055 of the population of Minnesota was over the age of sixty-five (12.7% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.2%. The population classified as white was 4,664,703 (88.6%), black: 249,909 (4.7%), Asian: 198,574 (3.8%), two or more races: 82,819 (1.6%), Hispanic or Latino: 226,384 (4.3%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Minnesota was $80,623,873 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $108388816 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $60,015,531 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $167367847 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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