Interesting and topical cross post from Marothisu on reddit r/Chicago:
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The US Census's 2016 American Community Survey was unleashed today to the public. One interesting thing? Chicago is now statistically the most educated, by percentage, of the top 5 most populous US cities. This is measured by percentage of population, aged 25+, with a Bachelor's degree or higher.
Chicago: 38.5%
NYC: 37.02%
Los Angeles: 32.81%
Houston: 32.47%
Phoenix: 27.91%
If you expand it out to the top 10 most populous cities then Chicago is 3rd - with only San Jose and San Diego higher, respectively.
Interestingly in 2015, NYC was just barely ahead of Chicago but between 2015 and 2016, Chicago increased the amount of people in this category by over double than NYC did - even though NYC is over 3X the overall population of Chicago.
Source: https://factfinder.census.gov
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https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/com..._most_college/
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