Swift county, MN

2000

Demographic[1]
Total Population	11,956
Median Age	39.3
Male Population	6,537
Female Population	5,419
Ethnicity: White	10,840
Ethnicity: Black or African American	322
Ethnicity: Asian	171
Ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino	320
Total Households	4,353

Local Employment Dynamics[2]
	Quarter 1	Quarter 2	Quarter 3	Quarter 4	Annual
Total Employment	3,319	3,309	3,091	3,266	3246.25
Net Job Flows	40	-47	11	28	8
Job Creation	145	192	187	258	195.5
New Hires	270	298	355	396	329.75
Separations	355	539	458	576	482
Turnover (percent)	6.7%	7.5%	7.3%	8.0%	7.375%
Average Monthly Earnings	$1,954.00	$2,069.00	$2,026.00	$2,335.00	$2096.00
Average New Hire Earnings	$1,282.00	$1,541.00	$1,549.00	$1,611.00	$1495.75

Percent Employed[3]	54.2%
Percent Unemployed[4]	2.5%

Commuting to Work (percent)[5]
Car, Truck, or Van	84.6%
Drove alone	75.6%
Carpooled	9%
Public Transportation (excluding taxicab)	0.5%
Walked	5.4%
Bicycle	0.7%
Taxicab, motorcycle, or other means	0.7%
Worked at home	8.3%
Worked in county of residence	3,937
Worked outside county of residence	1,175
Mean travel time to work (minutes)	17.2 mins

Housing Occupancy (percent)[6]
Total Housing Units	4,821
Occupied Housing Units	90.3%
Vacant Housing Units	9.7%
For Rent	32.3%
Rented, not occupied	14.0%
For sale only	18.8%
Sold, not occupied	4.6%
For seasonal, recreational, or occasional use	12.6%
All other vacants	17.5%
Homeowner vacancy rate	2.6
Rental vacancy rate	13.1

Education (percent)[7]
Less than 9^th grade	9%
9^th to 12^th grade, no diploma	10.6%
High school graduate (includes equivalency)	35.1%
Some college, no degree	23.2%
Associate’s degree	8%
Bachelor’s degree	11.5%
Graduate or professional degree	2.5%
High school graduate or higher	80.4%
Bachelor’s degree or higher	14%

Agriculture[8]
Number of Farms	888
Land in Farms	378,734
Average Size of Farm	437
Total value of agricultural products sold	206,088,000
Value of crops including nursery and greenhouse	113,760,000
Value of livestock, poultry, and their products	92,328,000

Farmland Sales[9]
Number of Sales	18
Average Parcel Size	168
Sum of Parcel Size	3,016
Minimum Parcel Size	40
Maximum Parcel Size	400

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

Land Values[11]
Total acres	446,775
Total estimated value	371,697,505
Estimated value per acre	832

Soils Data[12]
Erosion Water
5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	Total
458,299	9,713	2,456	2,938	0	0	1,701	171	0	0	475,277
Erosion Wind
5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	Total
448,498	16,979	7,266	4,810	1,872	1,872	1,872	171	0	0	475,277

Crop Production Index
10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	Total
14,972	0	9,124	10,905	8,495	38,597	50,509	56,454	70,586	215,635	475,277
Aspen Production Index
10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	Total
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	475,277

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	260,954,897	1,755,077
Farm Non Homestead	147,773,687	1,690,711
Timber	0	0
Noncommercial Seasonal Recreation	229,223	2,692
Residential Homestead	112,894,209	1,026,701
Residential Non Homestead	12,265,873	155,602
Apartments	5,190,397	68,583
Commercial Seasonal Recreation	0	0
Commercial	46,005,145	1,302,883
Industrial	6,238,412	140,066
Utilities	4,985,531	155,546
Railroads	3,371,343	99,262
Other	0	0
Personal	9,343,184	267,856
Total	609,251,900	6,664,980

Natality[14]
Number of Births	123
Fertility Rate	72.1
Birth Rate	10.8
Number of Deaths	131
Death Rate	11.5
Natural Rate of Increase	-0.7

Mortality (all ages)[15]
AIDS/HIV	0
Alzheimer’s Disease	3
Atherosclerosis	2
Cancer	24
Cirrhosis	2
Congenital Anomalies	0
Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease	10
Diabetes	3
Heart Disease	47
Homicide	0
Hypertension	0
Nephritis	3
Perinatal Conditions	0
Pneumonia and Influenza	0
Septicemia	4
SIDS	1
Stroke	13
Suicide	0
Unintentional Injury	4
Other	1

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

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