Social Profile: Marine on St Croix Inventory of Characteristics, Minnesota, USA

The following section describes the social profile of Marine. The 1990 U.S. Census provided the most current data available, except in the case of housing information, which includes data from building permit records since 1990.

POPULATION TRENDS

The Metropolitan Council’s Regional Growth Strategy identifies Marine as a rural growth center. The following population and household forecasts, as projected by the Metropolitan Council (in 1997), are acceptable to the City.

POPULATION GROWTH
	1990	1995 Est.	2000	2010	2020
Population	602	611	660	810	930
Households	234	240	260	320	370
Household Size	2.56	2.55	2.54	2.53	2.51
Source: 1990 U.S. Census, Metropolitan Council

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AGE CHARACTERISTICS

The following table shows that Marine has a slightly lower percentage of the population in the school age and labor force groups compared to Washington County as a whole. Marine also has nearly twice the percentage of people over 65 compared to Washington County as a whole.

1990 POPULATION ACCORDING TO AGE GROUP
Age Group	Marine	Percent	Washington County	Percent
School Age
0 - 4	59	9.4	12,174	8.3
5 - 9	46	7.3	13,121	9.0
10 - 14	31	4.9	12,211	8.4
15 - 19	43	6.8	10,409	7.1
Sub-Total	179	28.5	47,915	32.8
Labor Force:
20 - 24	24	3.8	8,085	5.5
25 - 34	76	12.1	27,053	18.5
35 - 44	122	19.4	26,273	18.0
45 - 54	101	16.1	17,313	11.9
55 - 64	50	7.9	9,777	6.7
Sub-Total	373	59.3	88,501	60.7
Retired:
65+	77	12.2	9,480	6.5
TOTAL	629	100.0	145,896	100.0
Source: U.S. Census 1990

Approximately 41 percent of people 25 years of age or older have a bachelors degree or graduate degree in Marine compared to approximately 26 percent for Washington County as a whole.

1990 EDUCATION LEVELS AGE 25 AND OVER
Level Attained	Marine	Percent	Washington County	Percent
Less than 9th Grade	17	4.0	3,095	3.4
9th to 12th Grade (no diploma)	35	8.2	5,852	6.5
High School Graduate	94	22.1	29,961	33.3
Some College (no degree)	76	17.8	19,009	21.1
Associate Degree	30	7.0	8,408	9.4
Bachelors Degree	119	27.9	16,866	18.8
Graduate/Professional Degree	55	12.9	6,705	7.5
Total	426	100.0	89,896	100.0
Source: U.S. Census 1990

Managerial and professional occupations make up 43.2 percent of the occupations of residents of Marine, compared to 29.7 percent of Washington County as a whole.

OCCUPATIONS (Age 16 and Over)
	Marine	Percent	Washington County	Percent
Managerial and Professional:
Executive, administration and managerial	60	18.1	10,608	13.8
Professional	83	25.1	12,189	15.9
Technical, Sales and Administrative Support:
Technical	20	6.0	3,541	4.6
Sales occupation	35	10.6	9,093	11.9
Administrative support	28	8.5	14,168	18.5
Service:
Private household	2	.6	195	.3
Protective service	3	.9	1,033	1.3
Other	21	6.3	7,665	10.0
Farm, forest, fishing	2	.6	767	1.0
Precision product, craft & repair	30	9.1	8,162	10.6
Operators, Fabricators and Laborers
Machine operators, assemblers, inspectors	18	5.4	4,348	5.7
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, laborers	15	4.2	2,198	2.9
Transportation & material moving	14	4.5	2,685	3.5
TOTAL	331	100.0	76,652	100.0
Source: U.S. Census 1990

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