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Anoka County: An Overview
Anoka County Continues to Grow
With just over 7,500 establishments
supplying over 125,500 jobs, Anoka County is
Minnesota’s fourth largest-employing county.
And it’s growing. Since the end of the Great
Recession in 2010, Anoka County has gained
20,190 jobs, growing by 19.2 percent. With
that growth, the county now surpasses its
2007 pre-recessionary peak of employment
by over 9,300 jobs. More recently, between
2013 and 2018, the county witnessed an
average annual employment growth of
1.9 percent, which outpaced the state’s
average annual growth during that time of
1.4 percent. Within the past year of available
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data, between 2017 and 2018, Anoka
County gained 3,047 jobs, expanding by 2.5
percent. This growth far outpaced statewide
employment growth during that time of 1.0
percent (see Figure 1 on page 9). In fact, out
of Minnesota’s 87 counties, Anoka County
added the second-most jobs between 2017
and 2018, only being surpassed by Hennepin
County.
So where are these jobs being added in
Anoka County? Over the past five years,
Health Care and Social Assistance has added
2,559 jobs, making it the county’s largest-
growing industry sector during that time.
Adding 1,846 jobs, Construction was not
only the county’s second largest-growing
industry sector, but also the fastest-growing
(Construction grew three times faster than
Anoka County’s total employment growth
over the past five years). Virtually tied for
third, Educational Services and Manufacturing
each added about 1,140 jobs between 2013
and 2018. Over the past year of available
data, between 2017 and 2018, Health Care
and Social Assistance, Manufacturing, and
Wholesale Trade continued to add the most
jobs in Anoka County.