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<br />COMMUNITY PROFILE
<br />Ramsey County Multijurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan | July 2012 2-3
<br />By the beginning of the 20th century, St. Paul and Ramsey County had become leaders in a social service
<br />network that would sustain its people through World War I, Prohibition, the Depression, World War II
<br />and the rapid changes in civil, cultural, and social life that would mark the decades of the 1950s, 1960s,
<br />1970s and beyond. Additionally, the farms that had once dotted the land north of the city limits had
<br />disappeared, and the communities that serve the area - the historic villages of Ramsey County - had
<br />become flourishing suburbs whose businesses and industries now occupy once open farm land.1
<br />2.3 Demographics
<br />Ramsey County is the most densely populated county in Minnesota with a total of 508,640 people
<br />residing within its borders (3,341.7 persons/sq. mi.). Over half of the population lives in the City of
<br />St. Paul. The next two largest cities are Maplewood and Roseville.
<br />The follow statistical data from the U. S. Census Bureau represents the demographics of Ramsey County,
<br />Minnesota.
<br />Table 2-1
<br />Demographics 2
<br />People Quick Facts Ramsey County Minnesota
<br />Population, 2010 508,640 5,303,925
<br />Population, percent change, 2000 to 2010 -0.5% 7.8%
<br />Population, 2000 511,035 4,919,479
<br />Persons under 5 years, percent, 2010 6.9% 6.7%
<br />Persons under 18 years, percent, 2010 23.3% 24.2%
<br />Persons 65 years and over, percent, 2010 12.0% 12.9%
<br />Female persons, percent, 2010 51.5% 50.4%
<br />White persons, percent, 2010 (a) 70.1% 85.3%
<br />Black persons, percent, 2010 (a) 11.0% 5.2%
<br />American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2010 (a) 0.8% 1.1%
<br />Asian persons, percent, 2010 (a) 11.7% 4.0%
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<br />1 Kunz, Virginia B. "Brief History of Ramsey County and St. Paul." Ramsey County Historical Society. 2012. Web.
<br />01 Feb. 2012. <http://www.rchs.com/historyramsecounty.htm>
<br />2 U.S. Census Bureau: State and County QuickFacts. Data derived from Population Estimates, American
<br />Community Survey, Census of Population and Housing, State and County Housing Unit Estimates, County Business
<br />Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics, Economic Census, Survey of Business Owners, Building Permits, Consolidated
<br />Federal Funds Report
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