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Interesting to note which cities are more educated than their metros and which cities are less so.
The difference between Seattle proper and most of its satellite cities/suburbs is pretty significant. Seattle is 61% while the metro is 41%. Given that Seattle makes up a decent chunk of the metro area it's pretty significant. Traveling around the Puget Sound it's apparent. Aside from Seattle and the core Eastside cities, much of the metro is somewhat blue collar (e.g. Everett, Tacoma, Federal Way, Marysville).
On the other hand, I've found much of the Bay Area to be more uniformly educated (although of course there are some exceptions).
Interesting to note which cities are more educated than their metros and which cities are less so.
Atlanta is especially notable, which throws out the false notion (held by some anyway) that the City of Atlanta is an urban ghetto surrounded by wealthy white suburbs.
What's the deal with Houston and Dallas being so low? Hispanics?
They are real cities filled with people from all socioeconomic classes. When that happens you find more educational diversity. Some cities are becoming little more than housing centers for professionals.
What's the deal with Houston and Dallas being so low? Hispanics?
When you run the numbers of Houston and Dallas for education, you see some pretty interesting trends since 2010 or so. Actually going back to I think 1990 or maybe 2000 it's kind of messed up for both of those cities. In one of those years, Dallas had a relatively high bachelor's or higher percentage. It was ahead of some other important US cities. If you were to compare to 2014, it barely did anything. I think the percent only went up by 2 or 3%. Meanwhile, Austin went up by something like 10%, Chicago by something like 15%, NYC by around 10%, etc. Houston was a little better, but not as good as those 3 cities I just mentioned.
I can't tell what the cause is or anything, but I think there's a lot of migration to these cities from people who might have been working more industrial types of jobs in northern areas like a Chicago, Cleveland, etc and went down there for the jobs. The good news though is that their income levels have gone up decently well.
It's true though that in pretty much ever aspect, Austin dominates both Dallas and Houston as far as these types of growth goes.
Dallas and Houston as far as I remember has always had relatively low education rates, probably because of the uneducated immigrants from Latin America.
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