The population of Rice county is estimated at 65,588. In 2017 there were 761 births and 479 deaths in Rice county. Rice county has 12,265 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 4,632 that are owned free and clear and 5,418 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Rice County filed 29,460 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.1% of all Minnesota filings and 0.020% of the entire nation. Rice had a combined total federal tax liability of $258,569,000 on earned income of $1,843,925,000. Other notable statistics from Rice County were 1,450 unemployment claims which collected a total of $6,893,000 and 8,400 charitable contributions valued at $33,641,000. 9,320 filings from Rice County paid a combined total of $28,018,000 in property taxes and 7,940 filings paid $55,144,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Rice county had 69 religious congregations with an estimated 32,148 members.
26.8% of the Rice population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 49% of Rice County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 57 votes.
At $65,011 the median income is 95.1% of the Minnesota average. An estimated 1,163 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Rice, the equivalant of around 3.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Rice County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
3,907	Manufacturing
3,193	Health care and social assistance
2,664	Retail trade
2,082	Accommodation and food services
1,768	Food manufacturing
1,523	Nursing and residential care facilities
1,013	Wholesale trade
874	Ambulatory health care services
830	Machinery manufacturing
774	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
686	Transportation and warehousing
677	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
642	Professional, scientific, and technical services
627	Limited-service restaurants
606	Other services (except public administration)

In 2018 8.74% of listings in Rice County.

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