Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Higher Education in Griggs County, North Dakota

Griggs County, North Dakota is made up of a moderately-educated working age population, 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. Griggs was reported to have a lower percent of individuals with higher educations than the State of North Dakota's proportion of 22 percent and a lower percent than the national average of 24.4 percent.

In Griggs County, North Dakota according to the Decennial Census of 2000, 15.6 percent of the White Alone, . percent of Black or African American, 0 percent of the Asian alone and . percent of the Hispanic or Latino population, over the age 25, has achieved a Bachelors Degree or Higher.

Reported by the 2000 Census in Griggs County, North Dakota, many men in the area have reached the High School Diploma category, with 31.2 percent obtaining this level of education. The women in Griggs on average have achieved a lower level of higher education (Bachelors or Higher) than men; 16.8 percent (Men) versus 14.6 percent (Women). A high proportion of the female population in the area has reached the High School Diploma category, with 34 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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