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The Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area also witnessed notable transformations. While the metropolitan area doubled in population since 1950, the proportion of metropolitan area residents in Minneapolis and its twin city, St. Paul, dwindled from 70% in 1950 to just 20% by 2010. [6]
Minneapolis–Saint Paul was the site of the second-costliest act of civil disobedience in U.S. history, after the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. [14] Local protests and riots caused an estimated $550 million in damages [ 15 ] and affected around 1,600 businesses.
The U.S. Census Bureau recorded St. Paul's population at 272,235 in the 1990 census. In the 2000 census, the population was recorded at 287,151; a 2008 estimate puts the population at 279,590, a decrease of 7,561 people.
Saint Paul (often abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Ramsey County. [6] As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 311,527, making it Minnesota's second-most populous city and the 63rd-most populous in the United States.
Saint Paul saw early population growth from many regions and different ethnic groups. However, a principal factor in early population growth of Saint Paul was the Quebec diaspora of the 1840s-1930s, in which one million French Canadians moved to the United States, principally to the New England states, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Minneapolis [a] is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and its county seat. [4] With a population of 429,954 as of the 2020 census, it is the state's most populous city. [7] Located in the state's center near the eastern border, it occupies both banks of the Upper Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of ...
[6] [7] As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,281,565. [8] It is Minnesota's most populous county and the 34th-most populous county in the U.S.; more than one in five Minnesotans live in Hennepin County. It is included in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul–Bloomington Metropolitan Statistical Area.
This growth is in part attributed to the influx of immigrants from East Africa, particularly Somalia and Ethiopia, who reside mainly in cities like Minneapolis and St. Paul. From 2000 to 2010, there was a significant increase in the Hispanic population by 74.5%, and this trend continued from 2010 to 2020.