County Ramsey County, Minnesota - Population, Income & Demographics

The median income of households in Ramsey County, Minnesota was $81,004. An estimated 4.2% of households had income below $10,000 a year and 12.2% had income of $200,000 or more.

An estimated 79.3% of households received earnings. An estimated 27.4% of households received Social Security and an estimated 23.2 % of households received retirement income other than Social Security. The average income from Social Security was $24,744. These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is, some households received income from more than one source.

In 2019-2023, 12.4 % of people were in poverty. An estimated 17.6% of children under 18 were below the poverty level, compared with 9.1% of people 65 years old and over. An estimated 11.2% of people 18 to 64 years were below the poverty level.

In 2019-2023, 11.1 % of households received SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). An estimated 49.3% of households that received SNAP had children under 18, and 35.8% of households that received SNAP had one or more people 60 years and over. An estimated 31.4% of all households receiving SNAP were families with a female householder and no spouse present.

Among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in Ramsey County, Minnesota in 2019-2023, 94.8% had health insurance coverage and 5.2% did not have health insurance coverage. Private coverage was 68.6% and public coverage was 38.7%, respectively. The percentage of children under the age of 19 with no health insurance coverage was 3.3%.

In 2019-2023, Ramsey County, Minnesota had a total population of 544,438 - 277,152 (50.9%) females and 267,286 (49.1%) males. The median age was 35.9 years. An estimated 23.2% of the population was under 18 years, 36.1% was 19 to 44 years, 22.5% was 45 to 64 years, and 15.4 % was 65 years and older.

In 2019-2023, there were 219,075 households in Ramsey County, Minnesota. The average household size was 2.41 people.

Married-couple households made up 39.7% of the households in Ramsey County, Minnesota while cohabiting couple households made up 9.1% of households. Female householders with no spouse or partner present were 30.6% of all households, while 20.6% of households had male householders with no spouse or partner present. Some households had one person, as 15.2% of households were male householders living alone, and 19.6% were female householders living alone, for a total of 34.8% of all households.

In Ramsey County, Minnesota, 27.3% of all households had one or more people under the age of 18; 27.6% of all households had one or more people 65 years and over.

In 2019-2023, an estimated 84.3% of the people living in Ramsey County, Minnesota were U.S. natives. 60% of the Ramsey County, Minnesota population were living in the state where they were born.

Approximately 15.7% of Ramsey County, Minnesota residents in 2019-2023 were foreign-born. 62.3% of foreign-born were naturalized U.S. citizens and an estimated 64 % entered the country before the year 2010.

Foreign-born residents of Ramsey County, Minnesota come from different parts of the world. The bar graph below displays the percentage of foreign-born from each world region of birth in 2019-2023 for Ramsey County, Minnesota.

Among people at least five years old living in Ramsey County, Minnesota in 2019-2023, 23.2 % spoke a language other than English at home. Spanish was spoken by 5.6% of people at least five years old; 10.2% reported that they did not speak English "very well."

In 2019-2023, 85.1 % of the people at least one year old living in Ramsey County, Minnesota were living in the same house one year earlier.

In 2019-2023, 91.5 % of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 45.5% had a bachelor's degree or higher. An estimated 8.5% did not complete high school.

The total school enrollment in Ramsey County, Minnesota was 139,384 in 2019-2023. Nursery school enrollment was 8,084 and kindergarten through 12th grade enrollment was 91,110. College or graduate school enrollment was 40,190.

In Ramsey County, Minnesota, among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in 2019-2023, 12.3 % reported a disability. The likelihood of having a disability varied by age - from 4.7% of people under 18 years old, to 10.8% of people 18 to 64 years old, and to 29.9% of those 65 and over.

In Ramsey County, Minnesota, 65.5 % of the population 16 and over were employed; 31.3% were not currently in the labor force.

An estimated 82% of the people employed were private wage and salary workers; 13.7% were federal, state, or local government workers; and 4.1 % were self-employed in their own (not incorporated) business.

In 2019-2023, the civilian employed population 16 years and older in Ramsey County, Minnesota worked in the following industries:

An estimated 63.6% of Ramsey County, Minnesota workers drove to work alone in 2019-2023, and 8.9% carpooled. Among those who commuted to work, it took them on average 22.5 minutes to get to work.

In 2019-2023, Ramsey County, Minnesota had a total of 231,606 housing units. Of these housing units, 59.6% were single-family houses either not attached to any other structure or attached to one or more structures (commonly referred to as "townhouses" or "row houses"). 39.1% of the housing units were located in multi-unit structures, or those buildings that contained two or more apartments. 1.3% were mobile homes, while any remaining housing units were classified as "other," which included boats, recreational vehicles, vans, etc.

5.5% of the housing inventory was comprised of houses built since 2010, while 25.6% of the houses were first built in 1939 or earlier. The median number of rooms in all housing units in Ramsey County, Minnesota was 5.5 rooms, and of these housing units 50.4% had three or more bedrooms.

In 2019-2023, Ramsey County, Minnesota had 219,075 housing units that were occupied or had people living in them, while the remaining 12,531 were vacant. Of the occupied housing units, the percentage of these houses occupied by owners (also known as the homeownership rate) was 61% while renters occupied 39%. The average household size of owner-occupied houses was 2.61 and in renter-occupied houses it was 2.1.

11.7% of householders of these occupied houses had moved into their house since 2021, while 10.9% moved into their house in 1989 or earlier. Households without a vehicle available for personal use comprised 10% and another 15.2% had three or more vehicles available for use.

The following chart provides the primary fuel used to heat houses in Ramsey County, Minnesota:

In 2019-2023, the median property value for owner-occupied houses in Ramsey County, Minnesota was $304,900.

Of the owner-occupied households, 65.5 % had a mortgage. 34.5% owned their houses "free and clear," that is without a primary mortgage or loan on the house. The median monthly housing costs for owners with a mortgage was $1,913 and for owners without a mortgage it was $761.

For renter-occupied houses, the median gross rent for Ramsey County, Minnesota was $1,298. Gross rent includes the monthly contract rent and any monthly payments made for electricity, gas, water and sewer, and any other fuels to heat the house.