Dakota County Court Cases
Find your case information using Dakota County’s available online case lookup resources.About the County: Dakota County was formed from as one of nine original Minnesota counties., and officially established in 1849. The county was named after a local tribe Dakota, meaning “Allies”. The Dakota County Judicial Center resides in the county seat city of Hastings, Minnesota. Dakota County makes up 569.58 square miles of the state’s area. The most recent population estimate reports 398552 residents (making up an estimated 155220 households). The median household income is estimated to be $74995. The current unemployment rate for the county is reportedly 4.1%.
Recent County Case Facts
Between 2011 and 2015, there were 8735 reported DWI cases brought before Dakota County. In 2015, there were 357 cases of violent crime reported in the county; the county has a current violent-crime rate of 90 cases per 100,000 residents (ranking the county the number 11 most violent county in the state).