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The Williams Institute reported that the Twin Cities had an estimated 4.2-percent LGBT adult population in 2020. [259] In 2023, the Human Rights Campaign gave Minneapolis 94 points out of 100 on the Municipal Equality Index of support for the LGBTQ+ population. [260] Twin Cities Pride is held in May. [261]
The Twin Cities are home to a Jewish population of approximately 64,800, with about 31% of Jewish households in Minneapolis suburbs, 24% in Minneapolis, 16% in St. Paul, 14% in the St. Paul suburbs, and 15% in outer suburbs. [60] There is also a Hindu temple in the Twin Cities suburb of Maple Grove.
This gave birth to the nickname of the region, the "Twin Cities" metropolitan area. A view of the town of Tornio , which forms a twin city with Haparanda . Twin cities are a special case of two neighboring cities or urban centres that grow into a single conurbation – or narrowly separated urban areas – over time. There are no formal ...
While the metropolitan area doubled in population since 1950, the proportion of metropolitan area residents in Minneapolis and its twin city, St. Paul, dwindled from 70% in 1950 to just 20% by 2010. [6] Suburban expansion was a crucial factor in this demographic shift. [7]
The Ford Motor Company's Twin Cities Assembly Plant in 2006. The Minneapolis–Saint Paul–Bloomington area employs 1,570,700 people in the private sector as of July 2008, 82.43% of whom work in private service providing-related jobs. [77]
Saint Paul is adjacent to Minnesota's most populous city, Minneapolis; they and their suburbs are collectively known as the Twin Cities metropolitan area, the country's 16th-largest metropolitan area and home to about 55% of the state's population. [81] The remainder of the state is known as "Greater Minnesota" or "Outstate Minnesota". [82]
The twin cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis (Ballinger Publishing Company, 1976). Borchert, John R. "The twin cities urbanized area: past, present, future." Geographical Review 51.1 (1961): 47-70 online. Faue, Elizabeth (1991). Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915–1945. UNC Press Books.
The Mayor of Minneapolis, currently a position held by a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), operates alongside the city council. The mayor's role was previously considered relatively weak compared to some other U.S. cities, but following a charter amendment in 2021, the mayor gained more power and the council was reduced to purely legislative duties.