DATA SERVICES CENTER

Chippewa County

2010

Demographic[1]
Total Population	12,441
Median Age	43.1
Male Population	6,102
Female Population	6,339
Ethnicity: White	11,632
Ethnicity: Black or African American	65
Ethnicity: Asian	11
Ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino	611
Total Households	5,241

Local Employment Dynamics[2]
	Quarter 1	Quarter 2	Quarter 3	Quarter 4	Annual
Total Employment	4,840	4,881	4,803	5,044	4,892
Net Job Flows	-48	114	2	-54
Job Creation	103	339	207	206	213
New Hires	257	455	470	398	395
Separations	380	601	544	698	555
Turnover (percent)	5.4%	5.6%	6.1%	6.7%	%5.95
Average Monthly Earnings	$2,743.00	$2,872.0	$2,720.0	$2,899.25	$2,808.56
Average New Hire Earnings	$1,626.00	$3,469.0	$2,089.0	$2,512.00	$2,424.00

Percent Employed[3]	65.4
Percent Unemployed[4]	3.9

Commuting to Work (percent)[5]
Car, Truck, or Van	5652 (88.8%)
Drove alone	5,084 (79.9%)
Carpooled	568 (8.9%)
Public Transportation (excluding taxicab)	12 (0.2%)
Walked	239(3.8%)
Bicycle	1.1%
Taxicab, motorcycle, or other means	117 (1.8%)
Worked at home	344 (5.4%)
Worked in county of residence	71.7%
Worked outside county of residence	27.6%
Mean travel time to work (minutes)	15.5

Housing Occupancy (percent)[6]
Total Households Units	5721 (100%)
Occupied Housing Units	5241 (91.6%)
Vacant Housing Units	480 (8.4%)
For Rent	116 (2.0%)
Rented, not occupied	8 (0.1%)
For sale only	81 (1.4%)
Sold, not occupied	26 (0.5%)
For seasonal, recreational, or occasional use	64 (1.1)
All other vacants	184 (3.2%)
Homeowner vacancy rate	2.1
Rental vacancy rate	7.4

Education (percent)[7]
Less than 9^th grade	504 (5.9%)
9^th to 12^th grade, no diploma	598 (7.0%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency)	3,248 (38%)
Some college, no degree	1,895 (22.2%)
Associate’s degree	953 (11.1%)
Bachelor’s degree	990 (11.6%)
Graduate or professional degree	361 (4.2%)
High school graduate or higher	87.1%
Bachelor’s degree or higher	15.8%

Agriculture[8]
Number of Farms (acres)	720
Land in Farms (acres)	367,926
Average Size of Farm	511
Total value of agricultural products sold	169,002
Value of crops including nursery and greenhouse	149,312
Value of livestock, poultry, and their products	19,690

Farmland Sales[9]
Number of Sales	33
Average Parcel Size	118
Sum of Parcel Size	3,907
Minimum Parcel Size	37
Maximum Parcel Size	400

Timberland Sales[10]
Number of Sales	1
Average Parcel Size	40
Sum of Parcel Size	40
Minimum Parcel Size	40
Maximum Parcel Size	40

Land Values[11]
Total acres	332,750
Total estimated value	1,158,620,800
Estimated value per acre	3,482

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	1,591	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	633601710	4194691
Farm Non Homestead	317723538	3176588
Timber	36698	367
Noncommercial Seasonal Recreation	2236063	22356
Residential Homestead	300534638	2965849
Residential Non Homestead	36080630	369664
Apartments	16881162	183752
Commercial Seasonal Recreation	214100	1892
Commercial	57653864	984443
Industrial	30254956	564756
Utilities	17131782	331194
Railroads	3057927	59368
Other	0	0
Personal	18774186	360878
Total	1434181254	13215797

Natality[14]
Number of Births	170
Fertility Rate	88.5
Birth Rate	13.8
Number of Deaths	136
Death Rate	11
Natural Rate of Increase	2.8

Mortality (all ages)[15]
AIDS/HIV	0
Alzheimer’s Disease	3
Atherosclerosis	0
Cancer	29
Cirrhosis	0
Congenital Anomalies	1
Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease	5
Diabetes	5
Heart Disease	32
Homicide	0
Hypertension	0
Nephritis	2
Perinatal Conditions	0
Pneumonia and Influenza	5
Septicemia	1
SIDS	0
Stroke	9
Suicide	2
Unintentional Injury	7
Other	35

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

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