Ramsey County staff work hard to place families on the Family Shelter Waitlist into emergency shelter, when space becomes available.

Number of families and children by month on the wait list for Basic Sliding Fee child care. The Basic Sliding Fee subsidizes care for children while their parents work, look for a job, or attend school.

The Children and Family Services Division caseload sizes for intake and case management workers.

The median cost of living and median income data. Cost of living data by cost category, family size, and household composition (e.g. the number of workers). Income data is the median for households and median for families across all household and family sizes and compositions.