Income and Retail
Average household incomes range from $17,369 in Todd County to $42,313 in Hennepin County. Salaries are highest in the urban and suburban counties of the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Retail sales per capita were $10,260 in 1997, higher than the U.S. average of $9,190. The Twin Cities suburb of Roseville has the highest per capita sales, which recorded $14,870 per capita, but total revenues are much higher in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington, and Edina.
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