The Office of Planning and Analysis prepares a
Community Indicators Report to provide Dakota County’s leaders with timely, accurate, and objective information to better form policy decisions. The most recent report was completed in June 2010.
The most frequently requested measures are posted below in pdf format. Many of these measures have been updated since the report, to include 2009 American Community Survey (ACS) data from the U.S. Census Bureau, released in the fall of 2010, and the 2010 U.S. Census.
Common sources of the data used in these measure are
MN Compass, the
American Community Survey, the
Metropolitan Council and the
Dakota County Community Development Agency.
For more information, please
contact the Office of Planning and Analysis.
Dakota County Fast Facts
- Year founded: 1849
- Elected County Commissioners: 7
- Square miles: 587 (about 1/3 suburban and 2/3 agricultural or open space)
- Total Dakota County population (2010): 398,552
- Median age (2009): 36.2 years
- Total non-white population (2010): 17.7%
- Total housing units (2010): 159,598
- Median household income - annual (2009): $69,545
- Families living below the poverty rate (2009): 3.8%
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