Big Stone County

2000

Demographic[1]
Total Population	5,820
Median Age	43.6
Male Population	2,824
Female Population	2,996
Ethnicity: White	5,729
Ethnicity: Black or African American	10
Ethnicity: Asian	24
Ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino	20
Total Households	2,377

Local Employment Dynamics[2]
	Quarter 1	Quarter 2	Quarter 3	Quarter 4	Annual
Total Employment	1,426	1,507	1,482	1,505	1,480
Net Job Flows	68	77	4	-41
Job Creation	138	184	74	113	127
New Hires	183	142	142	129	149
Separations	176	262	193	280	228
Turnover (percent)	7.4	10.0	8.9	9.8	9.0
Average Monthly Earnings	$1,608.00	$1,758.00	$1,603.00	$2,213.00	$1,795.00
Average New Hire Earnings	$925.00	$1,103.00	$1,147.00	$1,325.00	$1,125.00

Percent Employed[3]	54.6%
Percent Unemployed[4]	3%

Commuting to Work (percent)[5]
Car, Truck, or Van	2,041 (83.1%)
Drove alone	1,769 (72.0%)
Carpooled	272 (11.1%)
Public Transportation (excluding taxicab)	12 (0.5%)
Walked	158 (6.4%)
Bicycle	3 (0.1%)
Taxicab, motorcycle, or other means	9 (0.4%)
Worked at home	234 (9.5%)
Worked in county of residence	1,845 (83%)
Worked outside county of residence	376 (17%)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)	15.7

Housing Occupancy (percent)[6]
Total Housing Units	3,171
Occupied Housing Units	2,377 (75%)
Vacant Housing Units	794 (25%)
For Rent	91 (11.5%)
Rented, not occupied	25 (3%)
For sale only	114 (14.4%)
Sold, not occupied	19 (2.5%)
For seasonal, recreational, or occasional use	433 (54.5%)
All other vacants	112 (14.1%)
Homeowner vacancy rate	5.3
Rental vacancy rate	20.4

Education (percent)[7]
Less than 9^th grade	467 (11.5%)
9^th to 12^th grade, no diploma	382 (9.4%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency)	1,627 (68.1%)
Some college, no degree	835 (20.6%)
Associate’s degree	279 (6.9%)
Bachelor’s degree	344 (8.5%)
Graduate or professional degree	170 (2.8%)
High school graduate or higher	79%
Bachelor’s degree or higher	11.4%

Agriculture[8]
Number of Farms	446
Land in Farms	274,038
Average Size of Farm	614
Total value of agricultural products sold	57,670,000
Value of crops including nursery and greenhouse	44,923,000
Value of livestock, poultry, and their products	12,747,000

Farmland Sales[9]
Number of Sales	11
Average Parcel Size	144
Sum of Parcel Size	1,588
Minimum Parcel Size	52
Maximum Parcel Size	357

Timberland Sales[10]
Number of Sales	NA
Average Parcel Size	NA
Sum of Parcel Size	NA
Minimum Parcel Size	NA
Maximum Parcel Size	NA

Land Values[11]
Total acres	297,014
Total estimated value	187,187,980
Estimated value per acre	630

Soils Data[12]
Erosion Water
5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	Total
200	624	83,360	1,664	10,827	4,114	0	0	0	0	322,203
Erosion Wind
5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	Total
189,843	121,578	38,218	21,597	10,770	6,656	6,656	6,656	6,656	0	322,203

Crop Production Index
10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	Total
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	322,203
Aspen Production Index
10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	Total
20,813	1,011	5,683	461	5,081	2,252	9,319	35,647	172,278	69,658	322,203

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	150,169,870	1,021,088
Farm Non Homestead	58,193,535	698,424
Timber	0	0
Noncommercial Seasonal Recreation	11,460,424	138,973
Residential Homestead	54,877,623	556,845
Residential Non Homestead	5,042,149	61,504
Apartments	1,704,379	32,965
Commercial Seasonal Recreation	356,898	4,485
Commercial	7,574,707	185,847
Industrial	796,283	20,296
Utilities	2,463,113	77,830
Railroads	2,551,107	85,178
Other	189,962	6,460
Personal	3,607,551	108,088
Total	298,987,600	2,997,984

Natality[14]
Number of Births	55
Fertility Rate	62.7
Birth Rate	9.9
Number of Deaths	97
Death Rate	17.4
Natural Rate of Increase	-7.5

Mortality (all ages)[15]
AIDS/HIV	0
Alzheimer’s Disease	1
Atherosclerosis	0
Cancer	21
Cirrhosis	0
Congenital Anomalies	0
Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease	0
Diabetes	5
Heart Disease	35
Homicide	0
Hypertension	0
Nephritis	2
Perinatal Conditions	0
Pneumonia and Influenza	3
Septicemia	0
SIDS	0
Stroke	13
Suicide	0
Unintentional Injury	3
Other	3

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

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