Chippewa, County

2000

Demographic[1]
Total Population	13,088
Median Age	40.5
Male Population	6,370
Female Population	6,718
Ethnicity: White	12,666
Ethnicity: Black or African American	23
Ethnicity: Asian	39
Ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino	251
Total Households	5,361

Local Employment Dynamics[2]
	Quarter 1	Quarter 2	Quarter 3	Quarter 4	Annual
Total Employment	4,526	4,603	4,606	4,556	4,572.75
Net Job Flows	154	115	-318	64	3.75
Job Creation	455	403	204	372	358.5
New Hires	628	676	655	1,158	779.25
Separations	781	861	1,246	1,393	1,070.25
Turnover (percent)	9.8%	9.7%	10.1%	7.7%	9.325
Average Monthly Earnings	$2,431.00	$2,335.00	$2,090.00	$2,431.00	2,321
Average New Hire Earnings	$1,468.00	$1,524.00	$1,600.00	$1,753.00	1586.25

Percent Employed[3]	61.9%
Percent Unemployed[4]	3.6%

Commuting to Work (percent)[5]
Car, Truck, or Van	5,476
Drove alone	4,811 (76.9%)
Carpooled	665 (10.6%)
Public Transportation (excluding taxicab)	22 (0.4%)
Walked	216 (3.5%)
Bicycle	4 (0.1%)
Taxicab, motorcycle, or other means	29 (0.4)
Worked at home	509 (8.1%)
Worked in county of residence	4,647 (75%)
Worked outside county of residence	1,546 (25%)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)	15.3 mins

Housing Occupancy (percent)[6]
Total Housing Units	5,855
Occupied Housing Units	5,361 (91.6%)
Vacant Housing Units	494 (8.4%)
For Rent	164 (33.2%)
Rented, not occupied	22 (4.5%)
For sale only	91 (18.4%)
Sold, not occupied	0
For seasonal, recreational, or occasional use	46 (9.3%)
All other vacants	147 (29.8%)
Homeowner vacancy rate	2.2
Rental vacancy rate	11.6

Education (percent)[7]
Less than 9^th grade	896 (10.2%)
9^th to 12^th grade, no diploma	728 (8.3%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency)	3,317(37.6%)
Some college, no degree	2,097 (23.8%)
Associate’s degree	577 (6.5%)
Bachelor’s degree	892 (10.1)
Graduate or professional degree	312 (3.5%)
High school graduate or higher	81.6
Bachelor’s degree or higher	13.7

Agriculture[8]
Number of Farms	694
Land in Farms	339,652
Average Size of Farm	489
Total value of agricultural products sold	169,002,000
Value of crops including nursery and greenhouse	149,312,000
Value of livestock, poultry, and their products	19,690,000

Farmland Sales[9]
Number of Sales	25
Average Parcel Size	135
Sum of Parcel Size	3,365
Minimum Parcel Size	20
Maximum Parcel Size	475

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

Land Values[11]
Total acres	349,994
Total estimated value	412,020,900
Estimated value per acre	1,177

Soils Data[12]
Erosion Water
5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	Total
305,880	11,930	27,347	20,634	1,199	198	60	0	0	4,816	372,063
Erosion Wind
5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	Total
306,980	65,299	54,238	26,906	6,272	5,073	4,876	4,816	4,816	0	372,063

Crop Production Index
10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	Total
6,528	1,519	5,846	4,013	2,955	712	11,982	15,176	66,588	256,744	372,063
Aspen Production Index
10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	Total
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	372,063

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	318,918,153	2,409,665
Farm Non Homestead	142,543,457	1,710,286
Timber	0	0
Noncommercial Seasonal Recreation	63,487	762
Residential Homestead	180,131,842	1,880,513
Residential Non Homestead	13,900,589	175,164
Apartments	6,994,321	110,870
Commercial Seasonal Recreation	0	0
Commercial	33,837,679	902,999
Industrial	11,587,738	349,772
Utilities	10,753,395	354,344
Railroads	2,334,507	75,667
Other	0	0
Personal	8,621,333	265,922
Total	729,686,500	8,235,965

Natality[14]
Number of Births	146
Fertility Rate	63.8
Birth Rate	11.2
Number of Deaths	146
Death Rate	11.2
Natural Rate of Increase	0

Mortality (all ages)[15]
AIDS/HIV	0
Alzheimer’s Disease	6
Atherosclerosis	3
Cancer	28
Cirrhosis	1
Congenital Anomalies	0
Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease	11
Diabetes	4
Heart Disease	38
Homicide	2
Hypertension	0
Nephritis	1
Perinatal Conditions	0
Pneumonia and Influenza	6
Septicemia	1
SIDS	0
Stroke	12
Suicide	2
Unintentional Injury	4
Other	4

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

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