The population of Steele county is estimated at 36,703. In 2017 there were 442 births and 304 deaths in Steele county. Steele county has 7,932 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 3,203 that are owned free and clear and 3,195 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Steele County filed 18,560 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.7% of all Minnesota filings and 0.012% of the entire nation. Steele had a combined total federal tax liability of $137,748,000 on earned income of $1,065,178,000. Other notable statistics from Steele County were 860 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,740,000 and 4,540 charitable contributions valued at $18,185,000. 5,190 filings from Steele County paid a combined total of $14,476,000 in property taxes and 4,340 filings paid $26,408,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Steele county had 51 religious congregations with an estimated 26,337 members.
24.6% of the Steele population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 52% of Steele County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 6 votes.
At $60,143 the median income is 88.0% of the Minnesota average. An estimated 694 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Steele, the equivalant of around 3.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Steele County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
4,535	Manufacturing
2,699	Retail trade
2,486	Health care and social assistance
1,614	Accommodation and food services
1,416	Food services and drinking places
1,322	Restaurants and other eating places
1,184	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
976	Ambulatory health care services
770	Miscellaneous manufacturing
746	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
686	Full-service restaurants
599	Limited-service restaurants
598	Wholesale trade
586	Employment services
586	Temporary help services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.59% in Steele County.

In 2018 11.51% of listings in Steele County.

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