Olmsted County, MN has a population of 148,736 people with a median age of 36.7 and a median household income of $68,023. Between 2014 and 2015 the population of Olmsted County, MN grew from 147,431 to 148,736, a 0.89% increase and its median household income grew from $67,089 to $68,023, a 1.39% increase.
The population of Olmsted County, MN is 82% White, 5.85% Asian, and 5.1% Black. 12.9% of the people in Olmsted County, MN speak a non-English language, and 94.7% are U.S. citizens.
The largest universities in Olmsted County, MN are Rochester Community and Technical College, with 1,181 graduates, Mayo School of Health Sciences, with 190 graduates, and University of Minnesota-Rochester, with 109 graduates.
The median property value in Olmsted County, MN is $173,000, and the homeownership rate is 73.7%. Most people in Olmsted County, MN commute by Drove Alone, and the average commute time is 16.7 minutes. The average car ownership in Olmsted County, MN is 2 cars per household.
Olmsted County, MN is the 8th most populated county in Minnesota and borders Dodge County, MN; Fillmore County, MN; Goodhue County, MN; Mower County, MN; Wabasha County, MN; and Winona County, MN& 1 more.
The economy of Olmsted County, MN employs 80,162 people. The economy of Olmsted County, MN is specialized in Healthcare & Social Assistance; Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, Hunting; and Information, which employ respectively 2.72; 1.08; and 0.92 times more people than what would be expected in a location of this size. The largest industries in Olmsted County, MN are Healthcare & Social Assistance (30,146), Retail trade (8,230), and Manufacturing (7,336), and the highest paying industries are Professional, Scientific, Tech Services ($67,743), Utilities ($55,577), and Mining, Quarrying, Oil, Gas Extraction ($54,000).
Median household income in Olmsted County, MN is $68,023. Males in Olmsted County, MN have an average income that is 1.31 times higher than the average income of females, which is $62,733. The income inequality of Olmsted County, MN (measured using the Gini index) is 0.508 which is higher than the national average.
Insurance and Medicare coverage combined with state and county level health and safety statistics for Olmsted County, MN. In Olmsted County, MN the age groups most likely to have health care coverage are 6-17 and 6-17, men and women, respectively. The location has a 1 to 226 primary care clinician to patient ratio and a Medicare reimbursement average per patient per year of $6,667. Beltrami County, MN has the highest prevalence of homicides of any county in Minnesota.
Olmsted County, MN is home to a population of 148,736 people, from which 94.7% are citizens. The ethnic composition of the population of Olmsted County, MN is composed of 121,949 White residents (82%), 8,703 Asian residents (5.85%), 7,583 Black residents (5.1%), 6,820 Hispanic residents (4.59%), and 3,418 Two+ residents (2.3%). The most common foreign languages in Olmsted County, MN are Spanish (4,527 speakers), African Languages (3,551 speakers), and Arabic (1,224 speakers), but compared to other places, Olmsted County, MN has a relative high number of African Languages (3,551 speakers), Mon-Khmer, Cambodian (748 speakers), and Hmong (540 speakers).
In 2015 universities in Olmsted County, MN awarded 1,863 degrees. The student population of Olmsted County, MN is skewed towards females, with 607 male students and 1,256 female students. Most students in Olmsted County, MN are White (1,471 and 79%), followed by Black or African American (102 and 5.48%), Asian (82 and 4.4%), and Hispanic or Latino (75 and 4.03%). The largest universities in Olmsted County, MN by number of graduates are Rochester Community and Technical College (1,181 and 63.4%), Mayo School of Health Sciences (190 and 10.2%), and University of Minnesota-Rochester (109 and 5.85%). The most popular majors in Olmsted County, MN are Liberal Arts & Sciences (308 and 16.5%), Registered Nursing (100 and 5.37%), and Other Multidisciplinary Studies (69 and 3.7%). The median tuition costs in Olmsted County, MN are $15,560 for private four year colleges, and $11,896 and $11,896 respectively, for public four year colleges for in-state students and out-of-state students.
The median property value in Olmsted County, MN is $173,000, which is 0.89 times smaller than the national average of $194,500. Between 2014 and 2015 the median property value increased from $171,200 to $173,000, a 1.05% increase. The homeownership rate of Olmsted County, MN is 73.7%, which is higher than the national average of 63.9%. People in Olmsted County, MN have an average commute time of 16.7 minutes, and they commute by Drove Alone. Car ownership in Olmsted County, MN is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.