Monday, December 18, 2006

Higher Education in Scott County, Iowa

From the years 2000 to 2005, the proportion of the male population that could be considered highly educated has increased by 6.0 percent. By the year 2005, 34 percent of area's male population (+25) achieved a BA or Higher. During the same period, the percent of women (+25) that have earned a BA or higher has increased by a total of 7.2 percent. By 2005, a total of 29.6 percent of the total female population achieved this high level of education.

Since 2000, Scott has increased in the population percent with a Bachelors Degree or Higher. This population percent has grown by 6.8 percent to a total of 31.6 percent in 2005, according to the American Community Survey. The 2005 proportion of highly educated population is greater than the State of Iowa percent of 23.8 and greater than the US percent of 27.2.

Scott County, Iowa may to understood as having a highly-educated working age population, with 24.8 percent of the population over 25 years old having received at least a Bachelors Degree, according to the Decennial Census of 2000. Scott is reported having a higher percent of individuals with higher educations than the State of Iowa's proportion of 21.2 percent and a higher percent than the US proportion of 24.4 percent.

In Scott County, Iowa as reported in the Census of the year 2000, 25.8 percent of the White Alone, 12.2 percent of Black or African American, 36 percent of the Asian alone and 14.2 percent of the Hispanic or Latino population, over the age 25, has achieved a Bachelors Degree or Higher.

According to the 2000 Decennial Census in Scott County, Iowa, many men in the area have reached the Some College or Associates Degree category, with 29.6 percent achieving this level. The female population in Scott have achieved a lower level of higher education (Bachelors Degree or Higher) than the male population-- 27.6 percent (Men) versus 22.4 percent (Women). A high proportion of the female population in the area has reached the High School Diploma category, with 31.8 percent of the women population in the area achieving this level of education.

Datasource: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 2000 Decennial Census. 2005 American Community Survey.

 

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