Well, this should give us Ohioans a little bragging rights until the novelty of the story wears off (say in about 3 minutes :wink:)

 

Most-Educated Cities in the United States

 

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/elearning/?article=EducatedCities

 

BTW: this is not a reason to start bashing Columbus, either!

Why is the income so much lower than other places?

Why is the income so much lower than other places?

Because people in the Cincinnati area make less money, on average, than the other cities.

 

Just want to clarify that this list is based on Metropolitan Areas, not "cities", as the article title claims. 

^ I know that. I'm just saying what kinda industry does some of those metro's have that are paying them so much more than metro's here in the midwest.

see i dont agree with that.  I think it has more to do with a lack of middle class in the city.  It seems to me youre either wealthy or poor if you live in the city limits.  Yea, there is a middle class and my roommate is apart of it in the city, but it perhaps is smaller than these other places.

Then some how this study is skewed.

The Cincinnati figure (33.x% with college degrees) is actually for the city proper, not the metro area.  I double checked on census.gov myself.  It actually drops to the mid to upper 20s if you expand it to the whole metro area.

 

DaninDC, I was in your neighborhood visiting a friend this weekend. Beautiful place.

 

[edit] It's the 2004 estimate for "Cincinnati city", based on a 25+ population of about 182k.  I can't figure out how to make a decent link to it.

Hmmm.  Interesting stat, kendall.  I just noticed that the percentage with college degrees in DC was about 47%, according to the article, when I know in the District itself, it's more like 39%.  The median household income also seemed lower than one would expect, so it seemed like it would include outlying suburbs (where incomes tend to be lower).  It would be interesting to see what the methodology was.

 

Glad you enjoyed yourself on the Hill.  Send me a PM--I'd love to hear where you hung out!

Okay, I confirmed it--the rankings are for "places".  In most cases, these are cities, as noted on the chart:

 

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GRTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-_box_head_nbr=R1402&-ds_name=ACS_2004_EST_G00_&-redoLog=false&-format=US-32&-mt_name=ACS_2004_EST_G00_R1402_US30

whats interesting is that, since 2000, the percent has gone up from about 29% to its current 33.5%.  Since people arent exactly moving into the city, that tells me the middle class is getting squeezed out.  Thus, since the rich and poor stay in the city, the rate goes up because the rich now make ur a greater proportion of the population.

I noticed the same thing in DC.  The percentage went up by 5.2% in 2 years (!).  A lot of the old-school "lifers", who tend to be blue collar types, are cashing out and moving into PG County, Maryland, while the young and educated, yuppies, and empty nesters are moving into town.