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Divorce and law offices across Minnesota's 87 counties

471,744 Minnesotans are currently divorced, 10.2% of those 15 and older. This study sets that share against law offices and incomes in every county.

Collected Nov 6, 2026. Last updated Nov 6, 2026. Not yet reviewed by Minnesota counsel. Download the data (CSV)

Draft for human review. This study was run by AI-assisted scripts on public files. No person has reviewed it, and no Minnesota lawyer has reviewed it. It is general information, and no firm is ranked or recommended.

The charts, county map and findings for this study are on one page.

See the charts and county map

Question, sample and how items were counted

Question: How does the share of divorced residents vary across counties, and how much local choice of law offices is there?
Sample: All 87 counties from the 2019 to 2023 American Community Survey, and statewide one-year estimates from 2021 to 2024.
Who is included: Every county. Rankings use counties with at least 10,000 residents 15 and older. No lawyer or firm is scored.
Method: A script reads Census tables B12001, B12503 and B19013, computes shares and margins of error, and joins law-office counts. Law-office counts come from Census business data used in our earlier county study and include offices of every kind.

Limitations

Being divorced is a current status, not a count of divorces each year.
Survey estimates have margins of error, which are wide in small counties and included in the CSV.
Law-office counts include every kind of law office.

What we could not collect

Divorce filings by county
The state courts site blocked automated requests, and we did not go around that.

Sources and files

Census Bureau ACS table B12001, 2019 to 2023
Census Bureau ACS table B12503, 2024
Minnesota Statutes chapter 518
Data for every row in this study: divorce-by-county.csv
Every figure is computed by a script from saved copies of these files.

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