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Plan: Minnesota PYs 2016-2017
Combined Plan C

Section: Senior Community Service Employment Program

Narrative: c. 5.

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c. 5. Provide the Ratio of Eligible Individuals in Each Service Area to the Total Eligible Population in the State. (20 Cfr 641.325(a))

Current Narrative:

The ratio of eligible individuals in each of the service areas to the total eligible population in Minnesota in determined by the job demand relative to current employment levels and the ratio of available claimants to job vacancies, serve as indicator to possible occupationally associated skill gaps and their level of demand. The table in VII.c.1 gives a snapshot of what is happening for each of the counties in Minnesota.

The total number of older adults (age 55-plus is anticipated to double between 2010 and 2030, rising to 1.3 million. By then, more than one in five Minnesotans will be an older adult.

Currently, one in seven Minnesotans age 65 and older lives in poverty and over half of them (38,463 are women. While the labor force participation rate of men age 55-plus will continue to exceed that of women during the current decade, most of the increases in labor force participant of this age group will come from women.

CountiesRatioPopulation 55+Total Population by County
Aitkin County, MN49%7,61815,702
Anoka County, MN26%88,853344,151
Becker County, MN35%11,60633,386
Beltrami County, MN27%12,46045,672
Benton County, MN26%10,28139,710
Big Stone County, MN42%2,1335,040
Blue Earth County, MN24%15,98265.787
Brown County, MN35%8,89625,313
Carlton County, MN31%11,01535,569
Carver County, MN23%22,54698,741
Cass County, MN41%11,77028,706
Chippewa County, MN35%4,19612,109
Chisago County, MN28%15,20754,293
Clay County, MN24%14,85962,324
Clearwater County, MN34%3,0068,803
Cook County, MN45%2,3615,194
Cottonwood County, MN37%4,25111,549
Crow Wing County, MN36%22,89963,428
Dakota County, MN26%107,328414,686
Dodge County, MN26%5,33220,364
Douglas County, MN37%13,67737,075
Faribault County, MN39%5,42814,050
Fillmore County, MN35%7,36020,834
Freeborn County, MN37%11,21530,613
Goodhue County, MN34%15,76546,435
Grant County, MN38%2,2615,903
Hennepin County, MN26%312,3391,223,149
Houston County, MN36%6,82818,773
Hubbard County, MN41%8,37320,655
Isanti County, MN29%11,02038,429
Itasca County, MN38%17,40145,435
Jackson County, MN36%3,65310,079
Kanabec County, MN35%5,60715,837
Kandiyohi County, MN32%13,75742,542
Kittson County, MN40%1,7644,424
Koochiching County, MN40%5,19512,841
Lac qui Parle County, MN43%2,9266,856
Lake County, MN43%4,57810,631
Lake of the Woods County, MN42%1,6633,923
Le Sueur County, MN30%8,42427,663
Lincoln County, MN39%2,2685,771
Lyon County, MN27%7,03425,673
McLeod County, MN31%11,18335,932
Mahnomen County, MN30%1,6505,457
Marshall County, MN35%3,3099,423
Martin County, MN38%7,60520,022
Meeker County, MN34%7,75023,102
Mille Lacs County, MN32%8,22425,788
Morrison County, MN33%10,75732,775
Mower County, MN31%12,23439,116
Murray County, MN40%3,3818,413
Nicollet County, MN27%9,11033,347
Nobles County, MN28%6,12421,770
Norman County, MN36%2,4046,678
Olmsted County, MN27%41,376151,436
Otter Tail County, MN39%22,60557,716
Pennington County, MN30%4,32014,219
Pine County, MN34%9,93129,069
Pipestone County, MN35%3,2109,271
Polk County, MN31%9,82731,533
Pope County, MN40%4,38511,041
Ramsey County, MN26%138,175538,133
Red Lake County, MN35%1,4034,055
Redwood County, MN35%5,38615,471
Renville County, MN36%5,40114,892
Rice County, MN27%17,73065,400
Rock County, MN34%3,2809,600
Roseau County, MN30%4,79315,770
St. Louis County, MN33%66,169200,431
Scott County, MN21%29,274141,660
Sherburne County, MN22%20,04491,705
Sibley County, MN32%4,75114,875
Stearns County, MN26%39,810154,708
Steele County, MN30%10,93536,755
Stevens County, MN28%2,7509,796
Swift County, MN37%3,4259,340
Todd County, MN35%8,49424.257
Traverse County, MN41%1,3933,401
Wabasha County, MN34%7,32021,239
Wadena County, MN35%4,90913,875
Waseca County, MN30%5,78918,989
Washington County, MN27%67,860251,597
Watonwan County, MN34%3,70010,952
Wilkin County, MN34%2,1586,396
Winona County, MN28%14,49650,885
Wright County, MN23%30,147131,311
Yellow Medicine County, MN35%3,5029,875
TOTAL28%1,533,6145,489,594