Adults With College Degrees in the United States, by County (Incredible Interactive Map)

[tekisui]

Source: The Chronicle

About These Data

While the primary source for these data is the U.S. Census Bureau, this interactive map makes use of historical Census data provided by the Minnesota Population Center's National Historical Geographic Information System.

The most recent data come from the American Community Survey's five-year estimates, which collected information from a sample of U.S. households between 2005 and 2009. Earlier data are from decennial Census reports.

Until the 1990 Census, educational attainment was tracked by counting years of college completed. In creating this interactive tool, we treated having a bachelor's degree completing four or more years of college as the same thing.

map at link: http://chronicle.com/article/Adults-With-College-Degrees-in/125995/

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Wow. My county is 50%.

That's amazing.

[RKP5637]

13. Yep! n/t

[jobycom]

2. 43% for Travis County, Texas. Interesting map. nt

[w8liftinglady]

3. sigh. 13 % for Henderson County. 9% for Van Zandt

[jaysunb]

6. Lots of well educated people in Texas

it kinda makes me wonder where exactly they got these degrees. :evilgrin:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. We have LOTS of good universities in Texas.

I went to one community college, two universities and one freestanding law school.

13% college grads where I live.

[jaysunb]

35. You, are absolutely correct

no disrespect intended. Just can't figure out how so many smart people can be ruled by so many dummies. :shrug:

[jobycom]

37. 'Cause the dumb folk breed like bunnies in the sticks.

Democrats generally win the cities (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Galveston, Corpus Christi, El Paso) and the Valley, but we lose a lot of the 'burbs, and we get wiped out in the rural areas and the mid-size towns (and there are a ton of those--Midland, Odessa, Lubbock, Abilene, Vidor, Jasper, Tyler... on and on).

Check out the map. We win the areas with high education levels and lose the areas with low education levels. Coincidence? No freaking way.

It all really just goes back to Civil Rights. Yarborough supported them and lost to a conservative Dem in the next primary (Lloyd Bentsen), LBJ supported them and didn't make it to the next election (Viet Nam didn't help). Democrats like Rick Perry and Phil Gramm switched parties during the 80s, and the whole state basically followed. The only reason Ann Richards won was because she faced a complete idiot, and sadly four years later when she faced another complete idiot, despite an overwhelmingly successful four years, they voted her out.

Right now the Republicans could win Texas even if they ran OJ Simpson against Jesus Christ.

[elehhhhna]

40. We have oil&gas plus NASA here in Htown, AND a massive medical center...

lots of brainiacs here.

[jobycom]

25. University of Texas, of course. Except the losers from Texas A&M...

:smoke:

Actually, both are tier one schools, and are two of the largest and most affordable in the nation. Texas has a good university system, all the way down to the community college level. Texas refused to allow George W Bush into graduate school, you know, so he had to go to Yale instead. :)

[jaysunb]

36. I lived in Austin

and no doubt if Travis County could send all the government people from there, Texas would be a Democratic State...again. :evilgrin:

[EFerrari]

4. SF County 51%, Santa Clara (Silicon Valley) 43%. n/t

[fishwax]

5. wow, interesting

Thanks for sharing that link. I love this kind of thing ...

[notesdev]

7. We're #1!

Fairfax County VA baby


Now let's see this map with average per-capita student loan debt.

[SoCalNative]

8. No big surprise

that there's a giant sea a pink across many Southern and some Midwestern states....

[cali]

9. 28% for my little backwoods county, Caledonia in Vermont.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. 57.18% here

[jljamison]

11. i soooo wish

...this map cross referenced % democratic %republican, etc. I have a theory...

[KansDem]

14. 50.45% for my county

Johnson County, Kansas

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. It's one of the highest in the country

Makes me wonder why we have so many dumb republicans in this county. LOL

[Generic Other]

15. where there's schools there are people with degrees

rocket science. if the state builds them the students will come.

[Erose999]

16. Bartow Co. GA (where I grew up) 16.74%. Clarke is better at 41.17

I'd like to see a similar map with HS grad percentages. I'm pretty sure Bartow is low on that list too, my Hs had a dropout rate around 50%.

[rox63]

17. 48.44% in my county n/t

[upi402]

19. almost 45% here

no wonder i can't get a damn job!

[madfloridian]

20. I don't see Dallas on there?

[Brother Buzz]

26. 27.39%

You need a steady hand to find Dallas. ;)

[KamaAina]

21. Wonder how closely that correlates with Red vs. Blue

:shrug:

[Poboy]

22. interesting. Thanks for posting.

[NYC Liberal]

23. 57.7% where I am

[DainBramaged]

24. My county, 48.13%, where I grew up 44.18%, 34.14% over all

A smart state I lives in, yet we elected Crispy Doughboy Cristie as the governor.....

[Lucky Luciano]

27. I am in Manahttan at 57.66%. The highest I saw so far is as I guessed, Los Alamos at 63.4%.

Anyone find anything higher than that? Gonna be ahrd to beat a very small county that is set up with huge government laboratory.

[Shagbark Hickory]

28. ~35pct. not too shabby.

[provis99]

29. a college degree used to mean something.

Now, any halfwit can get a college degree. In fact, most do. Soon everyone will have PhD's and be flipping burgers at McDonalds.

[Jokinomx]

30. Wow... what I find interesting is how large an increase of "educated" people

From just the 1970s there has been a huge increase. Makes you wonder what we are doing with all those high paying jobs?

[jimlup]

31. The correlation with blue states and even blue counties in states is blatant

[Kat45]

32. 48.44 % in my county

I thought it might be even higher, since there are always so many people applying for jobs that I apply for, but it is a fairly large county with a mix in it.

[postulater]

33. I'd like to see the map of adults able to grow their own food.

[CLANG]

34. I got a shoddy 44.39!

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

38. I'm suprised how high Orange and San Diego Counties are

Although I suspect on a municipality basis it wouldn't be terribly surprising. By county probably isn't the appropriate granularity for this subject when you have absurdly large counties like Los Angeles County or Fulton County where the numbers are skewed into non-representative mush.

[marshall]

39. Amazing

Thanks for posting.