Rice County Court Cases

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About the County: Rice County was formed from Dakota County and Wabasha County, and officially established in 1853. The county was named after Henry Mower Rice(1816-1894), former United States Senator from Minnesota (1858-1863). The Rice County Courthouse resides in the county seat city of Faribault, Minnesota. Rice County makes up 497.57 square miles of the state’s area. The most recent population estimate reports 64142 residents (making up an estimated 22498 households). The median household income is estimated to be $60365. The current unemployment rate for the county is reportedly 4.5%.

Recent County Case Facts

Between 2011 and 2015, there were 1295 reported DWI cases brought before Rice County. In 2015, there were 90 cases of violent crime reported in the county; the county has a current violent-crime rate of 143 cases per 100,000 residents (ranking the county the number 27 most violent county in the state).