Higher Education in Ransom County, North Dakota

Ransom County, North Dakota is made up of a moderately-educated population of the working age, with 15.8 percent of the population over 25 years old having received at least a Bachelors Degree, according to the Decennial Census of 2000. Ransom is reported having a lower percent of highly educated individuals than the State of North Dakota's proportion of 22 percent and a lower percent than the average across the nation of 24.4 percent.

In Ransom County, North Dakota as reported in the 2000 Census, 15.6 percent of the White Alone, 0 percent of Black or African American, 80 percent of the Asian alone and 23.6 percent of the Hispanic or Latino population, over the age 25, has achieved a Bachelors Degree or Higher.

The 2000 Decennial Census reported that in Ransom County, North Dakota, many men in the area have reached the High School Diploma category, with 33.2 percent receiving this level of education. The women in Ransom have attainment on average a lower level of higher education (Bachelors Degree or Higher) than the male population-- 17 percent (Men) versus 14.6 percent (Women). Many of the women in the area have achieved the High School Diploma category, with 38.2 percent of the areas female population attaining this level of education.





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