County		% Children Living in Poverty, 2005		Annual cost of center-based infant care		# Families on wait list for childcare asst.
Aitkin County		23.7		NP		2
Anoka County		7.7		$12,370		685
Becker County		16.6		NP		18
Beltrami County		25.5		7,020		32
Benton County		9.5		8,680		0
Big Stone County		15.5		NP		0
Blue Earth County		12.4		8,270		68
Brown County		8.7		6,830		0
Carlton County		11.2		7,770		0
Carver County		4.2		13,700		99
Cass County		23.2		NP		44
Chippewa County		11.8		NP		16
Chisago County		6.9		10,630		96
Clay County		13.5		7,280		0
Clearwater County		22.2		NP		0
Cook County		12.3		NP		0
Cottonwood County		15.1		NP		0
Crow Wing County		12.5		7,060		0
Dakota County		6.3		14,040		40
Dodge County		6.9		NP		23
Douglas County		11.5		8,320		22
Faribault County		15		6,370		0
Fillmore County		13.3		NP		10
Freeborn County		12.5		7,440		0
Goodhue County		8.5		7,580		45
Grant County		13.4		NP		14
Hennepin County		14.4		15,080		108
Houston County		9.9		NP		38
Hubbard County		16.6		22,050		53
Isanti County		8.6		9,160		38
Itasca County		17.4		NP		0
Jackson County		12.7		5,200		5
Kanabec County		14.1		8,580		26
Kandiyohi County		13.2		7,020		0
Kittson County		13.4		NP		0
Koochiching County		18.3		NP		30
Lac qui Parle County		10.5		NP		0
Lake County		13		8,450		0
Lake of the Woods		13.1		NP		0
Le Sueur County		8.8		NP		0
Lincoln County		12.2		NP		?
Lyon County		11		6,550		?
Mahnomen County		28.9		7,800		4
Marshall County		13.3		NP		9
Martin County		15.8		NP		0
McLeod County		8.2		10,310		0
Meeker County		10.6		7,850		0
Mille Lacs County		13.5		8,580		0
Morrison County		13		7,280		0
Mower County		1302		7,280		0
Murray County		10.4		NP		NP
Nicollet County		10.8		7,240		41
Nobles County		16.2		NP		0
Norman County		14.5		NP		10
Olmsted County		8.9		12,310		377
Otter Tail County		14.3		10,400		0
Pennington County		12.5		6,500		0
Pine County		16.6		NP		0
Pipestone County		12.4		6,980		0
Polk County		14.6		7,500		0
Pope County		14.6		NP		0
Ramsey County		18.4		14,340		1,237
Red Lake County		12.5		5,530		0
Redwood County		11.2		NP		14
Renville County		13		5,770		0
Rice County		9.3		8,450		90
Rock County		10		NP		0
Roseau County		8		NP		0
Scott County		4.3		14,920		177
Sherburne County		5.5		9,980		58
Sibley County		11.8		NP		0
St. Louis County		15.2		8,690		0
Stearns County		9.4		9,170		81
Steele County		9.1		8,850		111
Stevens County		9.3		NP		0
Swift County		10.9		NP		0
Todd County		16.4		NP		0
Traverse County		17.4		NP		0
Wabasha County		8.3		8,060		10
Wadena County		19.3		NP		0
Waseca County		10.7		7,900		0
Washington County		4.6		14,420		234
Watonwan County		14.3		NP		0
Wilkin County		10.5		NP		0
Winona County		12.3		8,270		0
Wright County		6.1		10,770		0
Yellow Medicine Co		11.2		NP		7
				NP = data not
				provided
Source		CDF		CDF		MN DHS