Higher Education in Clay County, Nebraska

Reported by the 2000 Census in Clay County, Nebraska, a high proportion of the male population in the area have reached the High School Diploma category, with 38 percent reaching this education level. The female population in Clay on average have achieved a greater level of higher education (Bachelors or Higher) than the men in the area: 15.4 percent (Men) versus 16.8 percent (Women). A high proportion of the female population in the area has reached the High School Diploma category, with 36.8 percent of women in the area reaching this education level.

In Clay County, Nebraska according to the Decennial Census of 2000, 16 percent of the White Alone, 66.6 percent of Black or African American, 42.8 percent of the Asian alone and 2.2 percent of the Hispanic or Latino population, over the age 25, has achieved at least a Bachelors Degree.

Clay County, Nebraska is made up of a moderately-educated 2000 population, with 16.2 percent of the population (+25) having received a BA or higher, as reported the 2000 Decennial Census. Clay is reported having a lower percent of population with this high education level than the State of Nebraska's proportion of 23.8 percent and a lower percent than the average across the nation of 24.4 percent.





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