Higher Education in Pike County, Pennsylvania

Pike County, Pennsylvania may to understood as having a moderately-educated working age population, with 19 percent of the population (+25) having received a BA or higher, as reported the 2000 Decennial Census. Pike counted a lower percent of individuals with higher educations than the State of Pennsylvania's proportion of 22.4 percent and a lower percent than the US proportion of 24.4 percent.

In Pike County, Pennsylvania according the 2000 Decennial Census, 18.8 percent of the White Alone, 29 percent of Black or African American, 31.4 percent of the Asian alone and 18 percent of the Hispanic or Latino population (over 25) has obtained a Bachelors Degree or Higher.

In 2000, the Census reported that in Pike County, Pennsylvania, the most common level of education achieved in the area for the male population is the High School Diploma category, with 40 percent receiving this level of education. The women in Pike have attainment on average a lower level of higher education (Bachelors or Higher) than the men in the area: 19.6 percent (Men) versus 18.4 percent (Women). The most common level of education for women in the area is High School Diploma category, with 42.4 percent of the women population in the area achieving this level of education.





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