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Hennepin County
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county in Minnesota, United States
OverviewAI-generated
Hennepin County is a government entity located in the United States, specifically within the jurisdiction of Minnesota. Its legal name is Hennepin County, Minnesota, and it is situated in the city of Minneapolis. The organization maintains an active status.
The county was established in 1852, with formal inception recorded on March 6, 1852. It has a population of 1,281,565 people. There are 513,892 households within the county.
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Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 1852
- Location
- Minneapolis, United States
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.490715.e · ISNI 0000 0004 0434 2809
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Louis Hennepin
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Minnesota
- Capital
- Minneapolis
- Population
- 1281565
- Area
- 1571
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Sherburne County
- Official website
- www.hennepin.us
- Image
- Hennepin County Government Center 5.jpg
- Households
- 513892
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Hennepin County, Minnesota
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Hennepin County, Minnesota
- Commons category
- Hennepin County, Minnesota
- topic's main category
- Category:Hennepin County, Minnesota
- inception
- 1852-03-06
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Hennepin County, Minnesota
- water as percent of area
- 8.7
- native label
- Hennepin County
- Köppen climate classification
- Hemiboreal
- topic has template
- Template:Hennepin County, Minnesota
- social media followers
- 31451
- per capita income
- 47618
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C109028
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Encyclopedic overview
Hennepin County (/ˈhɛnəpɪn/ HEN-ə-pin) is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,281,565, and was estimated to be 1,284,784 in 2025, making it the most populous county in Minnesota and the 34th-most populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Minneapolis, the most populous city in Minnesota and the 46th-most populous city in the United States. The county is named for the 17th-century explorer Louis Hennepin. It extends from Minneapolis to the suburbs and outlying cities in the western part of the county. Its natural areas are covered by extensive woods, hills, and lakes. It contains over 21.98% of the state's population. It is included in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul–Bloomington metropolitan statistical area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hennepin County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.