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INSIGHTS Sheri Booms Holm February 2020

Telling Stories by the Numbers

When you see Minnesota Compass data as representing the things in life you value, you can use these numbers to tell meaningful stories.

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Insights and Analysis

Recent articles highlighting key trends and issues:

Three questions about internet access in greater Minnesota answered

Minnesota is growing. How are we growing and by how much?

Four things to know about housing in greater Minnesota

Minnesota’s workforce shortage

NEW INSIGHTS

The detail in the data: Introducing profiles of 26 of Minnesota’s largest cultural communities

Minnesota Compass launches a new section that provides in-depth data by cultural group to help all of us better understand the composition and quality of life of diverse Minnesotans throughout the state.

Data Update

Minnesota is home to 267,000 children of immigrants. In other words, more than 1 in 6 kids statewide is the child of an immigrant.

Statewide, our school-aged population still outnumbers our older adult population. But this is not the case in all regions of the state. Older adults already outnumber school-aged kids in the Northland, Northwest, Southern, Southwest, and West Central regions.

Statewide, there are four working-age adults for every one older adult, down from five-to-one in 2010. The ratio is even smaller in some Minnesota regions. There are three working-age adults for every older adult in the Northland, Northwest, Southwest, and West Central regions of the state.

Minnesota’s economic output, or gross domestic product (GDP), stands at $331.4 billion. 2018 marks the ninth straight year of year-over-year increases in Minnesota’s GDP.

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