This is somewhat a “people live in cities” graph, but not as stark of one I expected. Not all big cities are so educated, plus there are a lot of rural places that draw in a surprising number of people with advanced degrees.
Still, I’m amused that Interstate 29 in specific lights up like a string of Christmas lights.
Based on the states I know, some of the surprising rural areas are where state universities are.
“People live in cities and get degrees in college towns” map.
Whycome the south doesn’t has orange boxes? Is we stupid?
Without having done my research, this feels like a lack of data more than anything.
Neat data, but it seems like starting the coloring at 40% is really high.
I’m curious what this would look like if they counted counties with 25% and above degree requirements.
not really, that’s roughly the percentage for the entire population of the country.
Exactly. The less educated population matters just as much as the more educated. Those people are not represented in this map.
here’s all the counties by education attainment. high school, 4-year college, graduate/professional degree.
source of the visuals:
www.smartick.com/data/visualizing-the-most-and-least-educated-counties-in-america/using data from the census:
https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/acs-5year.html
