The population of Meeker county is estimated at 23,099. In 2017 there were 270 births and 202 deaths in Meeker county. Meeker county has 4,947 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,490 that are owned free and clear and 1,739 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Meeker County filed 11,160 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.4% of all Minnesota filings and 0.007% of the entire nation. Meeker had a combined total federal tax liability of $80,754,000 on earned income of $628,663,000. Other notable statistics from Meeker County were 750 unemployment claims which collected a total of $4,245,000 and 2,560 charitable contributions valued at $9,981,000. 2,850 filings from Meeker County paid a combined total of $6,609,000 in property taxes and 2,310 filings paid $14,880,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Meeker county had 44 religious congregations with an estimated 16,176 members.
19.1% of the Meeker population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 53% of Meeker County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 31 votes.
At $56,068 the median income is 82.0% of the Minnesota average. An estimated 540 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Meeker, the equivalant of around 4.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Meeker County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,753	Manufacturing
1,240	Health care and social assistance
809	Retail trade
544	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
486	Nursing and residential care facilities
450	Accommodation and food services
380	Restaurants and other eating places
341	Ambulatory health care services
315	Transportation and warehousing
294	Machine shops; turned product; and screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing
294	Machine shops
237	Machinery manufacturing
207	Food manufacturing
206	Wholesale trade
205	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services

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