One of the loudest topics I’ve found in Minnesota political circles ... for visualizing the relationship between population and area is the cartogram, a map that’s distorted by another ...

Minnesota’s population growth since the 2010 Census has been almost entirely fueled by the Twin Cities metro. In fact, more of the state’s counties lost people than gained, according to ...

Outside the Twin Cities, some Minnesota counties have reached a point where deaths are outpacing births, or they are roughly equal. In Cook County, there is not a natural increase in population ...

In 2017, population analysts predicted that Otter Tail County, along with many other counties in Greater Minnesota, would decline in labor force and population in the years that followed ...

Minnesota’s population grew the most in Dakota County in 2023, expanded fastest in Pine County and nudged up in Hennepin County for the first time in two years, according to U.S. census data ...

the cartogram, where the area of spaces on a map is determined by a variable other than geographic area. In this case, it’s population: Make the most populous counties proportionately larger ...

After each of the last four presidential elections, University of Michigan physicist Mark Newman produced a series of maps showing the results while rescaling states and counties by population.

MANKATO, Minn. — An in-migration of new residents is helping slow, and in some cases reverse, population declines in many rural Minnesota counties where death rates continue to outpace birth rates.

MOORHEAD — With the exception of the Twin Cities area, Moorhead and Clay County are the shining stars in population growth in Minnesota. Perhaps the bright lights of the north is a more ...