Granite Falls city, Yellow Medicine County

2000

Demographic[1]
Total Population	2,025
Median Age	42.1
Male Population	934
Female Population	1,091
Ethnicity: White	1,911
Ethnicity: Black or African American	0
Ethnicity: Asian	2
Ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino	18
Total Households	880

Local Employment Dynamics[2]
Percent Employed[3]	58.1%
Percent Unemployed[4]	5.4%

Commuting to Work (percent)[5]
Car, Truck, or Van	91%
Drove alone	84.5%
Carpooled	6.5%
Public Transportation (excluding taxicab)	0
Walked	7.2%
Bicycle	1.3%
Taxicab, motorcycle, or other means	0
Worked at home	0.5%
Worked in county of residence	621
Worked outside county of residence	315
Mean travel time to work (minutes)	12.2 mins

Housing Occupancy (percent)[6]
Total Households	958
Occupied Housing Units	91.9%
Vacant Housing Units	8.1%
For Rent	48.7%
Rented, not occupied	5.1%
For sale only	14.1%
Sold, not occupied	0
For seasonal, recreational, or occasional use	6.4%
All other vacants	25.6%
Homeowner vacancy rate	1.7
Rental vacancy rate	14.3

Education (percent)[7]
Less than 9^th grade	4.4%
9^th to 12^th grade, no diploma	8.6%
High school graduate (includes equivalency)	34.9%
Some college, no degree	25.5%
Associate’s degree	7.6%
Bachelor’s degree	13.1%
Graduate or professional degree	5.8%
High school graduate or higher	86.9%
Bachelor’s degree or higher	18.8%

Land Values[8]
Total acres	220
Total estimated value	43,500
Estimated value per acre	198

Soils Data[9]
Erosion Water
5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	Total
797	0	8	0	432	0	0	0	0	1	1,238
Erosion Wind
5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	Total
553	440	441	433	433	1	1	1	1	0	1,238

Crop Production Index
10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	Total
669	433	0	0	0	0	31	0	49	57	1,238
Aspen Production Index
10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	Total
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,238

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[10]
	Taxable Market Value	Local Net Tax Capacity
Farm Homestead	168,461	1,588
Farm Non Homestead	23,667	247
Timber	0	0
Noncommercial Seasonal Recreation	0	0
Residential Homestead	41,101,952	371,544
Residential Non Homestead	2,576,092	27,866
Apartments	2,261,203	33,154
Commercial Seasonal Recreation	0	0
Commercial	9,359,092	219,730
Industrial	2,176,550	60,399
Utilities	28,792	602
Railroads	328,906	8,433
Other	0	0
Personal	813,986	19,578
Total	58,838,700	743,143

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

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