Higher Education in Anderson County, Texas

Anderson County, Texas has a less-educated population of the working age, with 11 percent of the population (+25) having received at least a Bachelors Degree, as reported in the Decennial Census of 2000. Anderson has a lower percent of population with this high education level than the State of Texas's proportion of 23.2 percent and a lower percent than the average across the nation of 24.4 percent.

Reported by the 2000 Census in Anderson County, Texas, a high proportion of the male population in the area have reached the Less than High School category, with 42.6 percent obtaining this level of education. The women in Anderson have achieved a greater level of higher education (Bachelors or Higher) than men; 10 percent (Men) versus 13 percent (Women). A high proportion of the female population in the area has reached the High School Diploma category, with 33.6 percent of women in the area reaching this education level.

In Anderson County, Texas as reported in the Census of the year 2000, 14.6 percent of the White Alone, 4.2 percent of Black or African American, 29.2 percent of the Asian alone and 2.2 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.