The population of Blue Earth county is estimated at 66,244. In 2017 there were 743 births and 474 deaths in Blue Earth county. Blue Earth county has 10,972 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 4,979 that are owned free and clear and 8,494 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Blue Earth County filed 30,790 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.1% of all Minnesota filings and 0.021% of the entire nation. Blue Earth had a combined total federal tax liability of $274,216,000 on earned income of $1,823,536,000. Other notable statistics from Blue Earth County were 1,300 unemployment claims which collected a total of $5,772,000 and 6,960 charitable contributions valued at $30,660,000. 7,610 filings from Blue Earth County paid a combined total of $19,698,000 in property taxes and 6,130 filings paid $39,510,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Blue Earth county had 75 religious congregations with an estimated 37,719 members.
32.2% of the Blue Earth population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 5.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 50% of Blue Earth County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 783 votes.
At $56,137 the median income is 82.1% of the Minnesota average. An estimated 1,169 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Blue Earth, the equivalant of around 2.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Blue Earth County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
9,080	Health care and social assistance
6,061	Retail trade
3,896	Manufacturing
3,584	Accommodation and food services
3,337	Food services and drinking places
2,884	Restaurants and other eating places
1,736	Ambulatory health care services
1,383	Wholesale trade
1,382	Information
1,344	General merchandise stores
1,262	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,134	Limited-service restaurants
1,090	Professional, scientific, and technical services
978	Finance and insurance
929	Residential intellectual and developmental disability, mental health, and substance abuse facilities

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