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NXS-GRX-USA · Northern America · Regions

Minnesota

First-level unit, United States of America: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

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Page GRX-USA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO USA / USStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
6,038,570
people (GHSL 2025)
218,024 km²
area
1.8%
of United States of America
87
units inside

01Kaart

Inside Minnesota

The 87 ADM2 units of Minnesota.

FIG 1 · 87 units inside Minnesota
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

Mense · GHSL 2025

6,038,570

1.8% of United States of America.

Mense · WorldPop 2025

6,070,723

+1% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

218,024 km²

28 people per km².

Code

US-MN

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Units

87 units inside Minnesota

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Aitkin – 19,252 14,738 5,156.39 4 0.3% 0
Anoka – 380,313 405,622 1,155.84 329 6.3% 0
Becker – 39,606 39,142 3,735.7 11 0.7% 0
Beltrami – 54,005 48,352 7,901.29 7 0.9% 0
Benton – 42,097 38,431 1,066.53 39 0.7% 0
Big Stone – 5,588 4,753 1,364.45 4 0.1% 0
Blue Earth – 67,464 63,099 1,980.9 34 1.1% 0
Brown – 28,810 25,503 1,598.33 18 0.5% 0
Carlton – 41,944 37,336 2,261.45 19 0.7% 0
Carver – 127,429 138,094 970.69 131 2.1% 0
Cass – 30,674 28,716 6,245.25 5 0.5% 0
Chippewa – 11,474 9,778 1,524.32 8 0.2% 0
Chisago – 63,149 56,224 1,142.76 55 1% 0
Clay – 92,783 81,806 2,718.63 34 1.5% 0
Clearwater – 9,922 8,088 2,655.06 4 0.2% 0
Cook – 4,776 4,276 4,171.81 1 0.1% 1
Cottonwood – 13,131 11,174 1,675.48 8 0.2% 0
Crow Wing – 77,260 71,529 2,989.19 26 1.3% 0
Dakota – 457,374 494,904 1,518.31 301 7.6% 0
Dodge – 23,538 21,759 1,135.38 21 0.4% 0
Douglas – 42,210 40,727 1,854.93 23 0.7% 0
Faribault – 16,016 12,919 1,865.7 9 0.3% 0
Fillmore – 23,145 21,056 2,228.48 10 0.4% 0
Freeborn – 35,292 30,575 1,868.13 19 0.6% 0
Goodhue – 41,484 37,980 2,017.67 21 0.7% 0
Grant – 6,791 5,949 1,484.16 5 0.1% 0
Hennepin – 1,237,549 1,398,630 1,572.43 787 20.5% 0
Houston – 26,708 23,959 1,470.45 18 0.4% 0
Hubbard – 23,587 21,758 2,577.81 9 0.4% 0
Isanti – 53,613 51,508 1,164.98 46 0.9% 0
Itasca – 51,977 44,495 7,557.7 7 0.9% 0
Jackson – 11,477 9,796 1,862.18 6 0.2% 0
Kanabec – 18,095 14,822 1,376.86 13 0.3% 0
Kandiyohi – 48,367 45,854 2,229.12 22 0.8% 0
Kittson – 5,431 3,832 2,844.65 2 0.1% 0
Koochiching – 13,931 9,937 8,141.84 2 0.2% 0
Lac qui Parle – 7,981 5,869 2,010.17 4 0.1% 0
Lake – 11,822 10,197 5,872.34 2 0.2% 16
Lake of the Woods – 3,639 2,892 4,598.21 1 0.1% 0
Le Sueur – 32,236 30,153 1,223.59 26 0.5% 0
Lincoln – 6,700 5,172 1,419.15 5 0.1% 0
Lyon – 29,938 24,253 1,867.47 16 0.5% 0
Mahnomen – 6,293 5,627 1,504.51 4 0.1% 0
Marshall – 11,174 8,985 4,677.86 2 0.2% 0
Martin – 23,463 19,189 1,886.22 12 0.4% 0
McLeod – 44,033 39,451 1,308.9 34 0.7% 0
Meeker – 28,132 24,588 1,665.54 17 0.5% 0
Mille Lacs – 31,593 28,070 1,762.92 18 0.5% 0
Morrison – 40,522 37,387 2,987.21 14 0.7% 0
Mower – 47,193 42,841 1,840.15 26 0.8% 0
Murray – 9,803 7,500 1,858.62 5 0.2% 0
Nicollet – 48,970 45,460 1,208.36 41 0.8% 0
Nobles – 24,962 23,248 1,866.35 13 0.4% 0
Norman – 7,747 6,060 2,263.98 3 0.1% 0
Olmsted – 173,034 178,449 1,692.64 102 2.9% 0
Otter Tail – 66,183 62,716 5,751.16 12 1.1% 0
Pennington – 15,934 14,035 1,594.99 10 0.3% 0
Pine – 34,199 26,581 3,705.27 9 0.6% 0
Pipestone – 10,893 9,307 1,201 9 0.2% 0
Polk – 49,833 39,337 5,165.32 10 0.8% 0
Pope – 12,404 11,334 1,853.13 7 0.2% 0
Ramsey – 512,877 560,378 439.67 1,167 8.5% 0
Red Lake – 4,414 3,440 1,117.04 4 0.1% 0
Redwood – 17,723 14,483 2,280.03 8 0.3% 0
Renville – 18,230 13,944 2,550.75 7 0.3% 0
Rice – 61,038 58,176 1,334.26 46 1% 0
Rock – 11,172 9,440 1,249.97 9 0.2% 0
Roseau – 17,524 14,985 4,336.21 4 0.3% 0
Scott – 148,803 156,562 952.16 156 2.5% 0
Sherburne – 109,601 102,575 1,165.56 94 1.8% 0
Sibley – 20,204 16,805 1,551.36 13 0.3% 0
St. Louis – 212,731 183,801 17,440.22 12 3.5% 0
Stearns – 184,796 172,158 3,587 52 3.1% 0
Steele – 42,600 38,038 1,116.74 38 0.7% 0
Stevens – 11,158 9,443 1,487.55 8 0.2% 0
Swift – 10,261 9,483 1,940.3 5 0.2% 0
Todd – 27,610 24,967 2,529.67 11 0.5% 0
Traverse – 3,072 2,572 1,513.37 2 0.1% 0
Wabasha – 23,465 20,128 1,419.83 17 0.4% 0
Wadena – 17,344 15,530 1,393.43 12 0.3% 0
Waseca – 21,777 18,872 1,117.66 19 0.4% 0
Washington – 290,577 311,202 1,091.43 266 4.8% 0
Watonwan – 12,410 11,182 1,136.35 11 0.2% 0
Wilkin – 8,820 8,017 1,939.31 5 0.1% 0
Winona – 57,027 44,837 1,659.06 34 0.9% 0
Wright – 154,938 153,391 1,840.47 84 2.6% 0
Yellow Medicine – 13,488 10,495 1,969.61 7 0.2% 0
04Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
2,607.8 H3 cells
Hawens
1 H3 cells
Lughawens
2 H3 cells
Major roads
7,972 H3 cells
Spoorweë
2,913.6 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
1,762.5 H3 cells
05Risiko

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Minnesota publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for United States of America.
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06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

07Bronne

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM1, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM2, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Lande
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

Status

The methodology, structure and definitions of The Global Risks Index are a preparatory working draft (2026), circulated for review and comment and not for implementation. No value appears until an edition is released from a governed evidence cut; values then carry intervals, classes, sources and their correction pathway. Simulators run the published methods on numbers you choose and never show a NXS-GRX value.

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Wat NXS-GRX nie is nie

NXS-GRX is navorsings- en risiko-analise-inligting. Dit is nie 'n krediet- of ESG-gradering nie en gebruik geen graderingskaal nie, nie 'n maatstaf vir finansiële instrumente nie, nie amptelike statistiek nie, nie 'n noodwaarskuwing of amptelike klassifikasie nie, en nie advies nie. Dit mag nie gebruik word om natuurlike persone te evalueer nie. Risikoklasse is bande op 'n gepubliseerde skaal, nooit ranglyste van lande of mense nie.

Pulse-seine en vooruitskouwaarskynlikhede is inligting vir hersiening deur bevoegde owerhede, nooit openbare waarskuwings nie; amptelike waarskuwings kom slegs van gemandateerde owerhede.

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