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POPULATION NOTES • encouraged population growth or moderated population losses. Most counties gained residents and households Although Hennepin County POPULATION HOUSEHOLDS Percent Percent grew at a relatively slow rate of 1990 1998 change 1990 1998 change 4.8 percent between 1990 and County census estimate 1990-98 census estimate 1990-98 1998,it added 49,444 residents, Aitkin 12,425 14,099 13.5% 5,126 5,951 16.1% the second largest gain of any Anoka 243,641 290,871 19.4% 82,437 100,685 22.1% Minnesota county.Dakota Becker 27,881 29,582 6.1% 10,477 11,379 8.6% County led the state with a Beltrami . 34,384 37,899 10.2% 11,870 13,534 14.0% population increase of 64,067. Benton 30,185 34,431 14.1% 10,935 12,809 17.1% Anoka and Washington coun- Big Stone 6,285 5,875 -6.5% 2,463 2,351 -4.5% ties also added over 47,000 residents. Blue Earth 54,044 55,611 2.9% 19,277 20,466 6.2% Brown 26,984 27,976 3.7% 10,321 10,801 4.7% Twenty-one counties lost popu- Carlton 29,259 31,496 7.6% 10,842 11,713 8.0% lation between 1990 and 1998, Carver 47,915 63,358 32.2% 16,601 22,444 35.2% compared with 49 during the Cass 21,791 24,997 14.7% 8,302* 9,832 18.4% 1980s.Many of these counties Chippewa 13,228 13,053 -1.3% 5,245 5,272 0.5% are along the western and Chisago 30,521 40,237 31.8% 10,551 14,073 33.4% southern borders of the state. Clay 50,422 53,183 5.5% 17,490 19,136 9.4% The rate of loss in these coun- Clearwater 8,309 8,423 1.4% 3,064 3,208 4.7% ties generally is slower than it was between 1980 and 1990. Cook 3,868 4,501 16.4% 1,632 1,944 19.1% Among the counties with the Cottonwood 12,694 12,923 1.8% 5,060 5,142 1.6% largest population losses were Crow Wing 44,249 51,605 16.6% 17,204 20,399 18.6% Polk, Marshall and Freeborn. Dakota 275,189 339,256 23.3% 98,271 123,541 25.7% Polk and Marshall counties Dodge 15,731 17,298 10.0% 5,538 6,199 11.9% suffered severe housing losses Douglas 28,674 31,481 9.8% 10,988 12,382 12.7% Sin the 1997 Red River flood,as Faribault 16,937 16,432 -3.0% 6,772 6,735 -0.5% well as serious problems in their Fillmore 20,777 20,967 0.9% 7,822 8,092 3.5% agricultural sector.Freeborn Freeborn 33,060 32,324 -2.2% 13,029 13,067 0.3% County lost a large meatpacking Goodhue 40,690 43,266 6.3% 15,198 16,597 9.2% operation in Albert Lea. Grant 6,246 6,201 -0.7% 2,454 2,504 2.0% In 1998,Minnesota's 87 counties Hennepin 1,032,431 1,081,875 4.8% 419,060 445,149 6.2% ranged in size from Hennepin, Houston 18,497 19,412 4.9% 6,844 7,354 7.5% with 1,081,875 residents,to Hubbard 14,939 16,905 13.2% 5,781 6,731 16.4% Traverse,with 4,250 residents. Isanti 25,921 30,038 15.9% 8,810 10,540 19.6% Median county population in Itasca 40,863 43,729 7.0% 15,461 16,826 8.8% 1998 was 21,026.Eight coun- Jackson 11,677 11,728 0.4% 4,560 4,662 2.2% ties had more than 100,000 Kanabec 12,802 14,220 11.1% 4,753 5,397 13.5% residents,and 15 had fewer Kandiyohi 38,761 41,782 7.8% 14,298 15,926 11.4% than 10,000. Kittson 5,767 5,455 -5.4% 2,274 2,221 -2.3% Counties with a high rate of Koochiching 16,299 15,826 -2.9% 6,025 6,136 1.8% population growth also tend to Lac qui Parle 8,924 8,540 -4.3% 3,505 3,435 -2.0% have rapid household growth. Lake 10,415 10,700 2.7% 4,242 4,431 4.5% The number of households in Lake of the Woods 4,076 4,553 11.7% 1,576 1,784 13.2% Sherburne County increased by Le Sueur 23,239 25,181 8.4% 8,468 9,328 10.2% 44.8 percent between 1990 Lincoln 6,890 6,644 -3.6% 2,704 2,672 -1.2% and 1998.Household growth Lyon 24,789 25,484 2.8% 9,073 9,697 6.9% exceeded 30 percent in Scott, o 0 Washington,Carver and McLeod 32,030 34,881 8.9/0 11,815 13,173 11.5% Chisago counties. Nine coun- Mahnomen 5,044 5,190 2.9% 1,805 1,938 7.4% Marshall 10,993 10,465 -4.8% 4,194 4,120 -1.8% ties located along the western and southern borders of the Sources:State Demographic Center at Minnesota Planning and Metropolitan Council • 4 Minnesota's State Demographic Center February 2000