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<br /> • Zimmerman, Farmington,
<br /> Savage, Lino Lakes,and Isanti. Most of the fastest-growing cities are in Twin Cities area
<br /> 1990-1998 1990-1998
<br /> Fast-growing cities outside the 1998 1998 1990 numeric percent
<br /> Twin Cities area include Sartell rank City County population population change change
<br /> and St.Joseph in the St.Cloud 1 St.Michael Wright 7,643 2,506 5,137 205.0%
<br /> area,Baxter and Crosslake in 2 Rogers Hennepin 2,039 698 1,341 192.1%
<br /> the Brainerd area and Byron in 3 Becker Sherbume 2,215 902 1,313 145.6%
<br /> the Rochester area.Both Moose 4 Albertville Wright 2,893 1,251 1,642 131.3%
<br /> Lake in Carlton County and 5 Woodbury Washington 38,845 20,075 18,770 93.5%
<br /> Appleton in Swift County grew 6 Zimmerman Sherburne 2,420 1,350 1,070 79.3%
<br /> by more than 50 percent since 7 Farmington Dakota 10,563 5,940 4,623 77.8%
<br /> 1990. Both cities have correc- 8 Savage Scott 17,040 9,906 7,134 72.0%
<br /> tional facilities with substantially 9 Lino Lakes Anoka 15,053 8,807 6,246 70.9%
<br /> increased inmate populations. 10 Isanti Isanti 2,072 1,228 844 68.7%
<br /> Thirteen Minnesota cities have 11 Hanover Hennepin,Wright 1,274 787 487 61.9%
<br /> more than 50,000 residents.All 12 Victoria Carver 3,792 2,354 1,438 61.1%
<br /> but three(Duluth, Rochester 13 St.Francis Anoka 3,959 2,463 1,496 60.7%
<br /> and St.Cloud)are located in 14 Sartell Benton,Stearns 8,551 5,409 3,142 58.1%
<br /> the Twin Cities metropolitan 15 Lakeville Dakota 38,506 24,854 13,652 54.9%
<br /> area.Eagan,St.Cloud, 16 Moose Lake Carlton 2,126 1,377 749 54.4%
<br /> Minnetonka and Eden Prairie 17 Big Lake Sherburne 4,767 3,113 1,654 53.1%
<br /> all passed the threshold of 18 Andover Anoka 23,213 15,216 7,997 52.6%
<br /> 50,000 residents since 1990. 19 Rosemount Dakota 13,146 8,622 4,524 52.5%
<br /> 20 Appleton Swift 2,361 1,552 809 52.1%
<br /> Minnesota had 853 cities in
<br /> 1998.Median city size in 1998 21 Waconia Carver 5,309 3,498 1,811 51.8%
<br /> was 638 residents.The smaller 22 Centerville Anoka 2,476 1,633 843 51.6%
<br /> 23 North Branch Chisago 6,344 4,267 2,077 48.7%
<br /> 41) the city,the higher the probabil
<br /> Sty that it had lost population 24 St.Bonifacius Hennepin 1,753 1,180 573 48.6%
<br /> 25 Chanhassen Carver,Hennepin 17,381 11,732 5,649 48.2%
<br /> since 1990.Half of the cities
<br /> with fewer than 1,000 resi- Note:Includes only cities with at least 1,000 residents in 1998.
<br /> dents lost population between Sources:State Demographic Center at Minnesota Planning and Metropolitan Council
<br /> 1990 and 1998.Only 16 per-
<br /> cent of the cities with more
<br /> than 1,000 residents lost popu-
<br /> lation.The number of cities Minnesota has 13 cities with more than 50,000 people
<br /> that lost population between 1990-1998 1990-1998
<br /> 1990 and 1998 is substantially1998 1990 1998 1990 numeric percent
<br /> rank rank Gty population population change change
<br /> lower than during the 1980s. 1 1 Minneapolis 360,591 368,383 -7,792 -2.1%
<br /> Four consolidations of cities 2 2 St.Paul 268,667 272,235 -3,568 -1.3%
<br /> have occurred since 1990.The 3 3 Bloomington 87,476 86,335 1,141 1.3%
<br /> cities of Branch and North 4 4 Duluth 85,249 85,493 -244 -0.3%
<br /> Branch in Chisago County 5 5 Rochester 80,186 70,729 9,457 13.4%
<br /> combined to form North 6 6 Brooklyn Park 63,940 56,381 7,559 13.4%
<br /> Branch;the cities of Virginia
<br /> and Franklin in St.Louis 7 9 Plymouth 62,979 50,889 12,090 23.8%
<br /> County consolidated to form 8 7 Coon Rapids 61,904 52,978 8,926 16.8%
<br /> Virginia;the cities of Redwood 9 12 Eagan 60,073 47,409 12,664 26.7%
<br /> Falls and North Redwood in 10 10 St.Cloud 59,584 48,812 10,772 22.1%
<br /> Redwood County became 11 8 Burnsville 58,705 51,288 7,417 14.5%
<br /> Redwood Falls;and Norwood 12 11 Minnetonka 52,691 48,370 4,321 8.9%
<br /> and Young America in Carver 13 15 Eden Prairie 50,681 39,311 11,370 28.9%
<br /> County formed Norwood
<br /> Young America. Sources:State Demographic Center at Minnesota Planning and Metropolitan Council
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<br /> 6 Minnesota's State Demographic Center February 2000
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