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County ranked most educated in state

Whitman County was recently named the most educated county in Washington state by TheStacker.com. The county also ranked 34 out of 3,142 counties in the United States.

To calculate the rankings, Stacker used data from the 2013 to 2017 American Community Survey to construct an index to measure the approximate education level of the counties in each state.

The data includes those over 25 years old. Stacker evaluated the data to create a “point-based system” based on seven educational tiers which range from individuals not educated past eighth grade to those with graduate or professional degrees. The scale is from zero to 100.

Whitman County scored an education index of 91.18, compared to Adams County, which was ranked the least educated county in the state with a 73.34 education index.

In Whitman County, 1.1 percent of people have less than a high school education, 3.5 percent of people have a high school education but no diploma and 17.1 percent of people graduated high school.

For higher education, 19.9 percent of Whitman County residents attended some college, but did not obtain a degree, 24.5 of residents obtained a bachelor's degree, 9.9 percent have an associate's degree and 23.9 percent hold a graduate or professional degree.

 

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