Seattle has hit a milestone that may be a first for any U.S. city — more than 70% of its residents who are 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, the Spokesman-Review reported, using U.S. Census Bureau data.
The number of highly educated people in Seattle has increased significantly in the last 20 years. In the year 2000, college graduates accounted for 47% of the city, and by 2010, that number had reached 56%.
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Seattle is outpacing other major U.S. cities when it comes to educational attainment, beating out Washington, D.C., where 65.5% of people over 25 held degrees, Atlanta (62.1%), San Francisco (60.9%) and Austin (60.7%) (1).
But the other metric that’s also increased in these cities? House prices. The median home price in Seattle in November was $865,000 according to Redfin (2), more than double the median price in the U.S. of $410,800, according to the Federal Reserve (3). In Washington, D.C., the median house price in November was $700,000 (4), and in San Francisco it was a whopping $1.5 million (5)…