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Knowledge Economy

Higher bachelor-plus educational attainment, advanced-degree share, and median household income score higher using ACS 5-year place data.

Scale0-100

Higher values rank better for this score.

How It's Calculated

The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.

Scoring Method

How the ranking is built

Knowledge Economy rewards places with higher educational attainment and income.

  1. 1

    Bachelor's-plus share, advanced-degree share, and median income are converted to population-weighted percentile-rank component scores.

  2. 2

    The final score is 50% bachelor's-plus score, 25% advanced-degree score, and 25% income score.

Technical details
Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Knowledge Economy.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

Knowledge Economy rewards places with higher educational attainment and income.

Statistics Feeding This Score

  • Bachelor's-plus count

    ACS count of residents age 25+ with a bachelor's, master's, professional, or doctorate degree.

    Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year
  • Advanced-degree count

    ACS count of residents age 25+ with a master's, professional, or doctorate degree.

    Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year
  • Median household income

    ACS median household income.

    Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year
  • Adjusted education shares

    Bachelor's-plus and advanced-degree shares after small-denominator shrinkage.

    Source: Derived from ACS inputs

Source Data

Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-YearCensus ACS 5-year estimates for housing, income, population, occupation, education, and race/ethnicity inputs at place, county, or CBSA geography depending on the score.

Known Limits

  • These are ACS place-level proxies, not direct measures of job openings, company headquarters, venture capital, salaries by occupation, remote-work availability, or commute sheds.
  • Occupation and education shares are shrunk toward all-place means when denominators are small.
  • The score describes residents by place, not necessarily jobs located inside the municipality.

Top 10 Locations

Ranked by Knowledge Economy.

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