Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Higher Education in La Salle County, Texas

La Salle County, Texas may to understood as having a less-educated population of the working age, with 6.4 percent of the population (+25) having received a BA or higher, as reported the 2000 Decennial Census. La Salle has a lower percent of individuals with higher educations than the State of Texas's proportion of 23.2 percent and a lower percent than the US proportion of 24.4 percent.

In La Salle County, Texas according the 2000 Decennial Census, 7.8 percent of the White Alone, 0 percent of Black or African American, 10 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.

In 2000, the Census reported that in La Salle County, Texas, a high proportion of the male population in the area have reached the Less than High School category, with 53.4 percent receiving this level of education. The women in La Salle have attainment on average a lower level of higher education (Bachelors or Higher) than the men in the area: 6.8 percent (Men) versus 6 percent (Women). The most common level of education for women in the area is Less than High School category, with 46 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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