Pennington County Court Cases

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About the County: Pennington County was formed from Red Lake County, and officially established in 1910. The county was named after Edmund Pennington (b. 1848), executive of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad. The Pennington County Courthouse resides in the county seat city of Thief River Falls, Minnesota. Pennington County makes up 616.54 square miles of the state’s area. The most recent population estimate reports 13930 residents (making up an estimated 5822 households). The median household income is estimated to be $47381. The current unemployment rate for the county is reportedly 9.8%.

Recent County Case Facts

Between 2011 and 2015, there were 422 reported DWI cases brought before Pennington County. In 2015, there were 11 cases of violent crime reported in the county; the county has a current violent-crime rate of 77 cases per 100,000 residents (ranking the county the number 32 most violent county in the state).