There is a pretty common perception that the wealthiest Americans are also the ones with the highest level of education. Yet, coming up with a way to measure this is obviously a bit difficult. Recently, the U.S. Census’s American Community Survey was able to at least partially put this perception to the test. The Survey was able to create a study that could be mapped on the county level and provide us some key information on high graduation rates, college graduation rates and median household incomes within these counties.
The colours on the map above are created by a combination of three shades. These shades are described below:
Pink: Measurement of high school graduates. The deeper the shade of pink, the higher the percentage of high school graduates.
When you combine these colours, you get a combined measurement of high school graduation rates, college graduation rates and median household income within a given county. You may notice some counties are almost white in colour while others are almost black. The white counties are ones that have a lo
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igh school graduation rates, a low college graduation rates and a low median household incomes. The black counties, on the flipside, have a high high school graduation rate, a high college graduation rate and a high median household income.
What is more interesting are the colours in between. The blue-ish shades of green highlight a city with a high median household income yet a low college and high school graduation rate. This would suggest a city that has a lot of highly educated transplants.
Anyways, take a good look at the map. While it may not fully prove the title of this blog post, it is most certainly a very interesting stud
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