Pine County

2000

Demographic[1]
Total Population	26,530
Median Age	38.4
Male Population	13,822
Female Population	12,708
Ethnicity: White	25,047
Ethnicity: Black or African American	341
Ethnicity: Asian	80
Ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino	465
Total Households	9,939

Local Employment Dynamics[2]
	Quarter 1	Quarter 2	Quarter 3	Quarter 4	Annual
Total Employment	7,419	8,097	8,100	8,132	7,937
Net Job Flows	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Job Creation	613	628	629	626	624
New Hires	445	1104	581	510	869
Separations	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Turnover (percent)	10.5%	4.6%	8.7%	5.8%	9.2%
Average Monthly Earnings	1,676	1,676	1,704	1,780	1,708
Average New Hire Earnings	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA

Percent Employed[3]	57.6 %
Percent Unemployed[4]	4.2 %

Commuting to Work (percent)[5]
Car, Truck, or Van	10346 (89.2%)
Drove alone	8721 (75.2%)
Carpooled	1625 (14%)
Public Transportation (excluding taxicab)	38 (0.3%)
Walked	359 (3.1%)
Bicycle	9 (0.1%)
Taxicab, motorcycle, or other means	119 (1.1%)
Worked at home	734 (6.3)
Worked in county of residence	7,011
Worked outside county of residence	4,422
Mean travel time to work (minutes)	30.2

Housing Occupancy (percent)[6]
Total Households	9939
Occupied Housing Units	9939 (64.7%)
Vacant Housing Units	5414 (35.3%)
For Rent	76 (1.4%)
Rented, not occupied	25 (0.5%)
For sale only	149 (2.8%)
Sold, not occupied	23(0.4)
For seasonal, recreational, or occasional use	4574 (84.5%)
All other vacants	559 (10.3%)
Homeowner vacancy rate	1.8
Rental vacancy rate	4.5

Education (percent)[7]
Less than 9^th grade	1267 (7.4%)
9^th to 12^th grade, no diploma	2449 (15%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency)	7252 (42.1%)
Some college, no degree	4059 (21.3%)
Associate’s degree	863 (4.5%)
Bachelor’s degree	1335 (6.7%)
Graduate or professional degree	489 (3%)
High school graduate or higher	79%
Bachelor’s degree or higher	10.3%

Agriculture[8]
Number of Farms	1,199
Land in Farms	254,858 acres
Average Size of Farm	1,181
Total value of agricultural products sold	34,391
Value of crops including nursery and greenhouse	12,706
Value of livestock, poultry, and their products	21,685

Farmland Sales[9]
Number of Sales	69
Average Parcel Size	74 acres
Sum of Parcel Size	5135 acres
Minimum Parcel Size	20 acres
Maximum Parcel Size	527 acres

Timberland Sales[10]
Number of Sales	4
Average Parcel Size	40 acres
Sum of Parcel Size	160 acres
Minimum Parcel Size	20 acres
Maximum Parcel Size	60 acres

Land Values[11]
Total acres	NA
Total estimated value	NA
Estimated value per acre	NA

Soils Data[12]
Erosion Water
5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40		45	50	Total
911,898	1,397	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	913,295
Erosion Wind
5	10	15	20	25	30	35		40	45	50	Total
895,570	1,397	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	913,295

Crop Production Index
10	20	30	40	50	60	70		80	90	100	Total
895,239	0	2,129	8,865	5,319	0	0		1,743	0	0	913,295
Aspen Production Index
10	20	30	40	50	60	70		80	90	100	Total
892,707	1,135	0	0	2,772	14,938	0		1,743	0	0	913,295

Wind and water erosion tables reflect the number of acres with the above listed tonnage of erosion per acre.

Crop production index display the number of acres that fall within the above listed crop growing potential; the higher the growing potential, the better that land is for farming.

Aspen production index display the number of acres that fall within the above listed aspen growing potential; the higher the growing potential, the better that land is for growing aspen trees or forests.

Property Taxes[13]
	Taxable Market Value	Local Net Tax Capacity
Farm Homestead	224,097,317	1,597,532
Farm Non Homestead	26,333,765	313,444
Timber	5,844,139	69,861
Noncommercial Seasonal Recreation	173,925,136	2,117,425
Residential Homestead	393,971,503	4,321,936
Residential Non Homestead	44,284,734	566,605
Apartments	16,316,138	223,820
Commercial Seasonal Recreation	3,197,967	47,088
Commercial	72,870,149	1,946,754
Industrial	3,574,204	100,265
Utilities	6,848,173	221,464
Railroads	5,832,134	194,708
Other	0	0
Personal	22,221,341	723,264
Total	999,316,700	12,444,167

Natality[14]
Number of Births	322
Fertility Rate	76.4
Birth Rate	13.1
Number of Deaths	242
Death Rate	9.8
Natural Rate of Increase	3.2

Mortality (all ages)[15]
AIDS/HIV	0
Alzheimer’s Disease	2
Atherosclerosis	1
Cancer	63
Cirrhosis	3
Congenital Anomalies	0
Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease	0
Diabetes	8
Heart Disease	73
Homicide	0
Hypertension	0
Nephritis	3
Perinatal Conditions	0
Pneumonia and Influenza	6
Septicemia	3
SIDS	0
Stroke	12
Suicide	2
Unintentional Injury	11
Other	6

[2] Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, Local Employment Dynamics, All NAICS Sectors

[7] American Community Survey, population 25 years and over