Social Security

• The proportion of households with social security income, which includes retirement and other forms of social security benefits, has been rising in Wisconsin and all its St. Croix River Valley counties.
• Polk and Burnett have consistently had substantially higher proportions of households with social security income than in Wisconsin as a whole, with the proportion of households in Burnett County rising significantly in the last three years: since 2021, more than half of the households in this county receive social security income. This reflects the older average age of residents of those two counties.
• Pierce and St. Croix have slightly lower proportions of their households receiving social security income than for the state as a whole.

• The proportion of households with social security income, which includes retirement and other forms of social security benefits, has been rising in Minnesota and all its St. Croix River Valley counties.
• Since 2009, both Chisago and Washington counties have gone from having slightly lower proportions of households with social security than Minnesota to having similar or higher proportions. However, Chisago County saw a slight decline in 2022.

• With two exceptions, all jurisdictions reported between one-quarter and one-third of their households in 2022 received social security income, which includes retirement and other forms of social security benefits.
• The two exceptions are Polk (38.4%) and Burnett (51.4%) counties, which are significantly higher than other counties.
• With two exceptions, all of the jurisdictions reported between one-quarter and one-third of their households in 2019 received social security income, which includes retirement and other forms of social security benefits.

The two exceptions are Polk (38.4%) and Burnett (51.4%) counties.

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