Yellow Medicine county, MN

2000

Demographic[1]
Total Population	11,080
Median Age	40.4
Male Population	5,490
Female Population	5,590
Ethnicity: White	10,647
Ethnicity: Black or African American	12
Ethnicity: Asian	19
Ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino	195
Total Housing Units	4,439

Local Employment Dynamics[2]
	Quarter 1	Quarter 2	Quarter 3	Quarter 4	Annual
Total Employment	3,331	3,275	3,283	3671	3390
Net Job Flows	-70	61	159	124	68.5
Job Creation	169	408	321	382	320
New Hires	322	473	709	453	489.25
Separations	548	731	1,165	699	785.75
Turnover (percent)	8.9%	9.7%	12.0%	13.1%	10.9%
Average Monthly Earnings	$2,073	$2,330	$2,039	$2,292	$2183
Average New Hire Earnings	$1,313	$1,309	$1,525	$1,482	$1407

Percent Employed[3]	60.3%
Percent Unemployed[4]	3.5%

Commuting to Work (percent)[5]
Car, Truck, or Van	84.9%
Drove alone	75%
Carpooled	9.9%
Public Transportation (excluding taxicab)	0.1%
Walked	5.7%
Bicycle	0.3%
Taxicab, motorcycle, or other means	0.2%
Worked at home	8.9%
Worked in county of residence	3,372
Worked outside county of residence	1,710
Mean travel time to work (minutes)	16.8 mins

Housing Occupancy (percent)[6]
Total Housing Units	4,873
Occupied Housing Units	91.1%
Vacant Housing Units	8.9%
For Rent	23.5%
Rented, not occupied	3.8%
For sale only	22.8%
Sold, not occupied	2.0%
For seasonal, recreational, or occasional use	6.2%
All other vacants	41.2%
Homeowner vacancy rate	2.7
Rental vacancy rate	10.1

Education (percent)[7]
Less than 9^th grade	10.2%
9^th to 12^th grade, no diploma	7.9%
High school graduate (includes equivalency)	35.4%
Some college, no degree	24.9%
Associate’s degree	7.4%
Bachelor’s degree	10.4%
Graduate or professional degree	4.7%
High school graduate or higher	81.6%
Bachelor’s degree or higher	14.0%

Agriculture[8]
Number of Farms	987
Land in Farms	409,223
Average Size of Farm	415
Total value of agricultural products sold	209,046,000
Value of crops including nursery and greenhouse	132,971,000
Value of livestock, poultry, and their products	76,076,000

Farmland Sales[9]
Number of Sales	32
Average Parcel Size	122
Sum of Parcel Size	3,905
Minimum Parcel Size	36
Maximum Parcel Size	320

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

Land Values[11]
Total acres	462,808
Total estimated value	446,314,270
Estimated value per acre	964

Soils Data[12]
Erosion Water
5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	Total
288,780	160,122	16,806	9,492	6,946	1,005	772	1,153	0	3,227	488,305
Erosion Wind
5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	Total
197,636	197,752	39,402	22,596	13,104	6,158	5,152	4,380	3,227	0	488,305

Crop Production Index
10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	Total
7,852	8,372	6,985	3,167	8,633	4,732	15,593	19,291	134,063	279,616	488,305
Aspen Production Index
10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	Total
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	488,305

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 forest

Property Taxes[13]
	Taxable Market Value	Local Net Tax Capacity
Farm Homestead	339,328,323	2,373,442
Farm Non Homestead	157,859,313	1,894,559
Timber	0	0
Noncommercial Seasonal Recreation	0	0
Residential Homestead	114,097,044	1,109,614
Residential Non Homestead	10,507,910	125,400
Apartments	4,372,232	73,982
Commercial Seasonal Recreation	107,006	1,766
Commercial	17,540,751	416,739
Industrial	7,574,911	224,474
Utilities	1,958,767	59,539
Railroads	2,361,193	77,465
Other	0	0
Personal	8,667,650	271,576
Total	664,375,100	6,628,556

Natality[14]
Number of Births	127
Fertility Rate	69.7
Birth Rate	11.2
Number of Deaths	138
Death Rate	12.2
Natural Rate of Increase	-1.0

Mortality (all ages)[15]
AIDS/HIV	0
Alzheimer’s Disease	9
Atherosclerosis	1
Cancer	29
Cirrhosis	1
Congenital Anomalies	0
Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease	5
Diabetes	2
Heart Disease	37
Homicide	1
Hypertension	0
Nephritis	5
Perinatal Conditions	0
Pneumonia and Influenza	6
Septicemia	1
SIDS	0
Stroke	12
Suicide	2
Unintentional Injury	6
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