Insights Archives

Choose your own data adventure with the Build Your Own statewide data tool! In this article, we share how you can use this tool to customize data for your Minnesota community.

Our Compass team takes a mid-decade look at whether Minnesota’s counties are growing, shrinking, and why. Read on to learn about what's happening in your county, why population growth matters, and ways you can support your community.

Minnesota is home to 322,000 young children. How are our youngest residents doing? We take a look at the demographics and overall well-being of our state's young children.

The backgrounds, circumstances, and experiences of Minnesota’s immigrants have changed considerably over time, and differ from the nation as a whole. In this article, learn a few things about Minnesota's immigrant communities in the past, today, and into the future.

Here are a few things we can learn about Minnesotans with disabilities from Minnesota Compass data.

Learn about ways that nonprofits can better support pathways into leadership and factors that were key to government leaders taking roles in public service, based on responses to our most recent leadership surveys.

Each year, our team looks at each key measure to determine whether it is trending better, worse, or the same. This year, we kept coming up against a thorny question: When is “about the same” not good enough?

April is National Volunteer Month. We know that Minnesota is home to many residents who give back to their communities in lots of different ways. Here are some quick facts about Minnesota’s volunteers.