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Share of Population With Bachelor’s Degree or Higher, by Major Metropolitan Area, 2011

August 26, 2012

Of 51 metropolitan areas with at least one million people, the Washington, D.C., area had the most highly educated population, and the Fresno, Calif., area the least. The greatest differences between the sexes were found in the Salt Lake City area, where men surpassed women in bachelor’s-degree attainment by 9.3 percentage points, and the Orlando, Fla., area, where women surpassed men by 6.8 percentage points.

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Share of Population With Bachelor’s Degree or Higher, by Major Metropolitan Area, 2011

Of 51 metropolitan areas with at least one million people, the Washington, D.C., area had the most highly educated population, and the Fresno, Calif., area the least. The greatest differences between the sexes were found in the Salt Lake City area, where men surpassed women in bachelor’s-degree attainment by 9.3 percentage points, and the Orlando, Fla., area, where women surpassed men by 6.8 percentage points.

Metropolitan Area Total Male Female
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, Ga. 36.0% 37.0% 35.1%
Austin-Round Rock, Tex. 43.9% 43.3% 44.4%
Birmingham-Hoover, Ala. 24.2% 25.9% 22.7%
Boston-Worcester-Manchester (Mass., N.H., Conn., Me.) 43.9% 46.3% 41.6%
Buffalo-Niagara Falls, N.Y. 34.7% 34.3% 35.1%
Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord (N.C., S.C.) 36.1% 39.0% 33.3%
Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City (Ill.-Ind.-Wis.) 36.4% 35.7% 37.2%
Cincinnati-Middletown (Ohio, Ky., Ind.) 26.5% 26.4% 26.6%
Cleveland-Akron-Elyria, Ohio 27.2% 26.5% 27.8%
Columbus, Ohio 29.6% 29.3% 29.8%
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Tex. 32.3% 33.1% 31.4%
Denver-Aurora-Boulder, Colo. 47.6% 49.8% 45.3%
Detroit-Warren-Flint, Mich. 32.3% 33.4% 31.3%
Fresno-Madera, Calif. 16.5% 17.7% 15.3%
Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, Mich. 25.6% 27.5% 23.8%
Greensboro—Winston-Salem—High Point, N.C. 28.2% 28.9% 27.6%
Hartford-West Hartford, Conn. 43.7% 45.0% 42.4%
Houston-Baytown-Sugarland, Tex. 31.0% 32.0% 30.0%
Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus, Ind. 31.3% 32.3% 30.3%
Jacksonville, Fla. 28.7% 28.1% 29.2%
Kansas City (Mo., Kan.) 34.9% 33.3% 36.3%
Las Vegas-Paradise, Nev. 25.4% 25.8% 25.0%
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, Calif. 29.7% 30.2% 29.3%
Louisville (Ky., Ind.) 26.0% 27.3% 24.8%
Memphis (Tenn., Miss., Ark.) 31.5% 31.2% 31.9%
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Miami Beach, Fla. 32.7% 35.3% 30.3%
Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, Wis. 33.0% 34.6% 31.4%
Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud (Minn., Wis.) 38.4% 38.8% 38.0%
Nashville-Davidson—Murfreesboro, Tenn. 37.4% 40.1% 34.8%
New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, La. 35.5% 37.3% 34.0%
New York-Newark (N.Y., N.J., Pa.) 38.2% 38.4% 37.9%
Oklahoma City, Okla. 28.3% 28.5% 28.2%
Orlando, Fla. 33.2% 29.7% 36.5%
Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland (Pa., N.J., Del., Md.) 33.7% 33.4% 34.0%
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, Ariz. 33.6% 33.8% 33.3%
Pittsburgh-New Castle, Pa. 33.8% 37.1% 31.0%
Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton (Ore., Wash.) 40.1% 39.5% 40.6%
Providence-Fall River-Warwick (R.I., Mass.) 31.1% 30.9% 31.2%
Raleigh-Durham-Cary, N.C. 34.7% 33.6% 35.6%
Richmond, Va. 33.8% 36.2% 31.7%
Rochester, N.Y. 32.7% 33.5% 32.1%
Sacramento—Arden-Arcade—Roseville, Calif. 30.9% 31.7% 30.1%
Salt Lake City-Ogden-Clearfield, Utah 32.7% 37.5% 28.3%
San Antonio, Tex. 25.9% 25.9% 26.0%
San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, Calif. 37.3% 36.7% 37.8%
San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, Calif. 44.2% 46.0% 42.3%
Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia, Wash. 36.1% 37.4% 34.8%
St. Louis (Mo., Ill.) 30.5% 33.8% 27.4%
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Fla. 28.2% 31.0% 25.5%
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News (Va., N.C.) 30.3% 29.3% 31.0%
Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia (D.C., Md., Va., W.V.) 47.7% 47.4% 47.9%

Notes: Data are for metropolitan combined statistical areas or core-based statistical areas that have one million people or more. Percentages indicate the share of the population ages 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree or higher.

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2011
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