Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Higher Education in Rice County, Minnesota

Rice County, Minnesota may to understood as having a highly-educated population of the working age, with 22.4 percent of the over 25 years old population having a Bachelors Degree or Higher, according to the 2000 Decennial Census. Rice counted 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 average across the nation of 24.4 percent.

The 2000 Decennial Census reported that in Rice County, Minnesota, many men in the area have reached the High School Diploma category, with 34.4 percent receiving this level of education. The women in Rice have on average achieved a greater level of higher education (Bachelors or Higher) than the men in the area: 22 percent (Men) versus 22.6 percent (Women). The largest educational attainment category for women in this areas is High School Diploma category, with 31.6 percent of the areas female population attaining this level of education.

In Rice County, Minnesota as reported in the Census of the year 2000, 22.8 percent of the White Alone, 11.8 percent of Black or African American, 27.8 percent of the Asian alone and 8 percent of the Hispanic or Latino (+25) population has achieved at least a Bachelors Degree.





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

 

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