2018 Largest Metro Areas and Cities; Adults with a Bachelor Degree or Higher

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by PerseusVeil

Here's the percentage of college grads in some of the largest cities proper in the Midwest, in order of highest percentage:

1. Minneapolis: 48.3%
2. St. Paul: 39.8%
3. Chicago: 37.5%
4. Omaha: 35.6%
5. Columbus: 35.1%
6. Cincinnati: 34.6%
7. St. Louis: 34.1%
8. Kansas City: 33.5%
9. Indianapolis: 29.7%
10. Wichita: 29.5%
11. Milwaukee: 23.8%
12. Cleveland: 16.4%
13. Detroit: 14.2%

These numbers aren't accurate.. Here is the 2018 city proper for some midwest cities for people aged 25+ and adding some more in:

Madison, WI: 57.3%
Minneapolis: 51.3%
St. Paul: 42.6%
Lincoln, NE: 41.3%
Chicago: 39.4%
Cincinnati: 39.1%
Grand Rapids, MI: 37.7%
Omaha: 37.7%
Columbus, OH: 37.1%
St. Louis: 37.1%
Kansas City: 35.3%
Wichita: 31.7%
Indianapolis: 31.4%
Ft. Wayne, IN: 27.8%
Milwaukee: 24.7%
Louisville: 24.6%
Akron, OH: 23.3%
Cleveland: 17%
Toledo, OH: 16.9%
Detroit: 15.5%

[Joakim3]

Originally Posted by DabOnEm

Baltimore has great bones. Although the crime is pretty scattered around the city (especially murders), I think it can make a great comeback as a much cheaper urban alternative on the East Coast. The Baltimore area also feels larger than it really is due to its closeness to DC (which has brought BMore amenities some peer cities don't have), which helps its attractiveness.

Yeah Baltimore definitely won the locational lottery when it comes to cities in it's "peer" group. Once the city gets its crime & political bs in check.. man can it go places

[PerseusVeil]

Originally Posted by marothisu

These numbers aren't accurate.

It's because it's the averaging from the 2013-2017 ACS surveys rather than just the numbers from the 2018 survey. It's what the Census has on its website when you pull up each city's quick facts.

Here's St. Louis, for example:
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/stlouiscitymissouri

[mjlo]

I think it would be interesting to see the growth rate for bachelors degrees (age 25+) since 2010, or 2000. I know some of these cities have had pretty substantial increases in percentages in that time frame. I just can’t figure out the website to do it lol.

[ForeignCrunch]

Originally Posted by Craziaskowboi

Wow, look at that dYiNg MeTrOpoLiTaN aReA in between Dallas and Salt Lake City!

Actually, Pittsburgh is a little like an inverted Detroit or St. Louis. The urban core is highly educated, economically stable, and growing in wealth. The suburbs are kind of stuck in a Trumplandian bubble of doom (especially outside of Allegheny), although slowly that, too, is changing.

So the metro area as a whole is really not in great shape at all. But a surprisingly vibrant and future-oriented core city is keeping the whole area from collapse.