DATA SERVICES CENTER

Yellow Medicine County

2010

Demographic[1]
Total Population	10438
Median Age	42.9
Male Population	5328
Female Population	5110
Ethnicity: White	10313
Ethnicity: Black or African American	9806
Ethnicity: Asian	11
Ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino	397
Total Households	4292

Local Employment Dynamics[2]
	Quarter 1	Quarter 2	Quarter 3	Quarter 4	Annual
Total Employment	3379	3537	3385	3534	3458
Net Job Flows	-63	6	6	42
Job Creation	65	181	100	211	139
New Hires	175	238	236	304	238
Separations	320	440	318	534	403
Turnover (percent)	5.5%	5.7%	6.1%	6.4%	5.9%
Average Monthly Earnings	$2709.00	$2907.00	$2908.00	$3273.00	$2949.25
Average New Hire Earnings	$1630.00	$2494.00	$2042.00	$2137.00	$2075.75

Percent Employed[3]	64.0
Percent Unemployed[4]	3.3

Commuting to Work (percent)[5]
Car, Truck, or Van	4609 (86.7%)
Drove alone	3969 (74.6%)
Carpooled	640 (12.0%)
Public Transportation (excluding taxicab)	5 (0.1%)
Walked	219 (4.1%)
Bicycle	0.8%
Taxicab, motorcycle, or other means	67 (1.3%)
Worked at home	419 (7.9%)
Worked in county of residence	60.6%
Worked outside county of residence	37.8%
Mean travel time to work (minutes)	18.9

Housing Occupancy (percent)[6]
Total Housing Units	4760 (100.0%)
Occupied Housing Units	4292 (90.2%)
Vacant Housing Units	468 (9.8%)
For Rent	90 (1.9%)
Rented, not occupied	4 (0.1%)
For sale only	72 (1.5%)
Sold, not occupied	15 (0.3%)
For seasonal, recreational, or occasional use	63 (1.3%)
All other vacants	224 (4.7%)
Homeowner vacancy rate	2.1
Rental vacancy rate	9.0

Education (percent)[7]
Less than 9^th grade	352 (4.9%)
9^th to 12^th grade, no diploma	364 (5.1%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency)	2736 (38.0%)
Some college, no degree	1713 (23.8%)
Associate’s degree	710 (9.9%)
Bachelor’s degree	964 (13.4%)
Graduate or professional degree	364 (5.1%)
High school graduate or higher	90.1%
Bachelor’s degree or higher	18.4%

Agriculture[8]
Number of Farms	986
Land in Farms	409223 acres
Average Size of Farm	415
Total value of agricultural products sold	$209046
Value of crops including nursery and greenhouse	$132971
Value of livestock, poultry, and their products	$76076

Farmland Sales[9]
Number of Sales	46
Average Parcel Size	124
Sum of Parcel Size	5699
Minimum Parcel Size	26
Maximum Parcel Size	390

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

Land Values[11]
Total acres	NA
Total estimated value	NA
Estimated value per acre	NA

Soils Data[12]
Erosion Water
5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	Total
288780	160122	16806	9492	6946	1005	772	1153	0	3227	488305
Erosion Wind
5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	Total
197636	197752	39402	22596	13104	6158	5152	4380	3227	0	488305

Crop Production Index
10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	Total
7852	8372	6985	3167	8633	4732	15593	19291	134063	279616	488305
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 forests.

Property Taxes[13]
	Taxable Market Value	Local Net Tax Capacity
Farm Homestead	751081594	4814949
Farm Non Homestead	344634280	3439654
Timber	0	0
Noncommercial Seasonal Recreation	1407984	13975
Residential Homestead	204702724	1992139
Residential Non Homestead	27269369	271331
Apartments	6479051	66515
Commercial Seasonal Recreation	104720	1248
Commercial	27111861	428957
Industrial	13766029	259440
Utilities	1653436	29999
Railroads	2815185	54997
Other	0	0
Personal	10441345	195876
Total	1391467578	11569080

Natality[14]
Number of Births	121
Fertility Rate	80.5
Birth Rate	12.3
Number of Deaths	112
Death Rate	11.4
Natural Rate of Increase	0.9

Mortality (all ages)[15]
AIDS/HIV	0
Alzheimer’s Disease	9
Atherosclerosis	0
Cancer	32
Cirrhosis	1
Congenital Anomalies	1
Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease	5
Diabetes	3
Heart Disease	16
Homicide	0
Hypertension	0
Nephritis	0
Perinatal Conditions	0
Pneumonia and Influenza	2
Septicemia	1
SIDS	0
Stroke	9
Suicide	1
Unintentional Injury	7
Other	25

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

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