Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Higher Education in Nobles County, Minnesota

In Nobles County, Minnesota as reported in the 2000 Census, 14 percent of the White Alone, 12.6 percent of Black or African American, 13.4 percent of the Asian alone and 4.8 percent of the Hispanic or Latino population, over the age 25, has achieved at least a Bachelors Degree.

Nobles County, Minnesota may to understood as having a moderately-educated working age population, with 13.4 percent of the population (+25) having received at least a Bachelors Degree, as reported in the Decennial Census of 2000. Nobles has a lower percent of individuals with higher educations than the State of Minnesota's proportion of 27.4 percent and a lower percent than the national average of 24.4 percent.

In 2000, the Census reported that in Nobles County, Minnesota, the largest educational attainment category for men is the High School Diploma category, with 35.4 percent receiving this level of education. The women in Nobles have attainment on average a greater level of higher education (Bachelors or Higher) than men -- 13.4 percent (Men) versus 13.6 percent (Women). A high proportion of the female population in the area has reached the High School Diploma category, with 33.4 percent of the women population in the area achieving this level of education.





Datasource: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 2000 Decennial Census.

 

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