Higher Education in the Longview, TX Metro Area

Between 2000 and 2005, the percent of the male population that can be understood as highly educated has increased by 0.4 percent. In the year 2005, 18.4 percent of area's male population, over the age 25, achieved a Bachelors Degree or Higher. At the same time, the percent of women, over the age 25, holding at least a Bachelors Degree has increased by a total of 0.8 percent. By 2005, a total of 16.6 percent of the women in the population had received a Bachelors Degree or Higher.

From 2000, the Longview metro area has increased in the percent of the total population (+25) with a BA or Higher. The portion of this population has grown by 0.6 percent to a total of 17.4 percent in 2005. The American Community Survey reports that the proportion of the 2005 population that is highly educated is less than the State of Texas percent of 25.2 and less than the average US percent of 27.2.

In the Longview, TX Metro Area as reported in the American Community Survey of the year 2005, 20.2 percent of the White Alone, 8 percent of Black or African American, . percent of the Asian alone and 7.8 percent of the Hispanic or Latino population, over the age 25, has achieved at least a Bachelors Degree.

Longview, TX Metro Area may to understood as having a moderately-educated population, with 17.4 percent of the population (+25) having received at least a Bachelors Degree, as reported in the 2005 American Community Survey. The Longview MSA is reported having a lower percent of the population with at least a Bachelors than the State of Texas's proportion of 25.2 percent and a lower percent than the US proportion of 27.2 percent.

According to the 2005 American Community Survey in the Longview, TX Metro Area, a high proportion of the male population in the area have reached the High School Diploma category, with 30.6 percent reaching this education level. The female population in the Longview metro area on average have achieved a lower level of higher education (Bachelors or Higher) than the men in the area: 18.4 percent (Men) versus 16.6 percent (Women). A high proportion of the female population in the area has reached the High School Diploma category, with 33 percent of women in the area reaching this education level.

Datasource: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 2000 Decennial Census. 2005 American Community Survey.

Demographic Profile for Longview, TX

In 2005, the Census Bureau estimated the median age in the Longview metro area to be 37.2 years old. The median in Longview is greater than the median age in the State of Texas of 33.2. Since the year 2000, the area has seen an increase in this median, when at that time it was 35.8 years of age. With 18.1 percent of the population in 2005 being comprised of children and youth younger than 18, Longview can be described as having a medium-high proportion of youths. The 18 to 64 years old population group has a medium-low presence of the population, with 61.6 percent of the population within the age category. People 65 years old and older make up 13.4 percent of the total population base. Compared to other metro areas throughout the nation, this represents a medium-low percent of the population base.

By measuring total land area, the Longview metro area spans a total of 1785 square miles. This area has a medium-low average area density of 113 persons per square mile. Similar metro areas in the US, in terms of density, include: -- more densely populated -- Morgantown (113 per sq. mile ), Utica-Rome (114 per sq. mile ), Terre Haute (115 per sq. mile ), -- less densely populated -- Clarksville (113 per sq. mile ), Florence-Muscle Shoals (113 per sq. mile ), Champaign-Urbana (112 per sq. mile ).

The Longview metro area had an estimated population of 201,501 in 2005. The total population has increased, since the population in 2000 of 194,044. This growth signifies an increase of 3.8 percent. Longview ranks 15 of 25 MSAs in terms of population growth in Texas and the metro area ranks 199 of 361 metro areas in terms of population growth in the United States.

The Longview metropolitan statistical area (MSA) has a population that is comprised of 70.3 percent White, 17.6 percent African American, 0.7 percent Asian, and 10.2 percent Hispanic. This area can be considered to have a high level of diversity in terms of race and ethnicity, with 28.5 percent minorities. This is less than the State of Texas percent of 49.5. Since 2000, Longview has increased the percent of minority makeup when 26.5 percent of the population was made up of minorities.

Since the year 2000, a high amount of people have migrated into the Longview metro area, with 2,170 people migrating in internationally. The migration from outside the US into Longview totals 0.3 percent of immigration into the State of Texas. This percent of international migration is high when analyzed against the base population in the year 2005 and compared to other metro areas across the US.

Datasource: Population Estimates Program, U.S. Bureau of the Census.