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EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT SOURCES: U.S. CENSUS BUREAU, 2012; BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, 2013 While Nashville keeps pace with key metros with regard to the percentage of its residents who hold a high school diploma, our region falls further behind as education levels rise. Attainment is also more limited within our region among certain groups. For example, minorities, veterans, people who speak a language other than English at home, and those living below the poverty level are much less likely to hold at least an associate degree compared to the rest of the population. As an example, only 9.3 percent of those living in poverty over the last year held at least an associate degree, compared with 90.7 percent of people who did not live in poverty in the last year. Educational attainment and unemployment have a strong correlation. While unemployment rates have continued to drop substantially in the region since 2012, some portions of the population experience very high levels of unemployment compared to the overall population. These groups include people under the age of 25, African Americans, people with disabilities, people living in poverty and people with less than a high school education. KEY TAKEAWAY While our region has a low unemployment rate, groups with a high school education or less are more likely to be unemployed than the rest of the population. High school graduate or higher Denver (89.9%) Indianapolis (88.9%) Nashville MSA (88.2%) Louisville (88.1%) Charlotte (87.6%) Kansas City (91.2%) Raleigh (89.9%) Tampa (88.3%) Austin (88.1%) Atlanta (87.8%) Memphis (86.2%) Some college, no degree Kansas City (23.1%) Charlotte (22.0%) Austin (21.7%) Tampa (20.9%) Indianapolis (20.2%) Memphis (24.4%) Louisville (22.3%) Denver (21.8%) Atlanta (21.0%) Nashville MSA (20.6%) Raleigh (19.0%) UNEMPLOYMENT RATE SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, 2013 Associate degree or higher Denver (47.6%) Atlanta (42.3%) Kansas City (41.2%) Nashville MSA (38.7%) Louisville (34.2%) Raleigh (50.7%) Austin (47.1%) Charlotte (41.6%) Indianapolis (40.0%) Tampa (36.3%) Memphis (33.2%) Population 18+ enrolled in college or graduate school Austin (12.5%) Raleigh (11.0%) Atlanta (10.3%) Memphis (10.1%) Nashville MSA (9.8%) Charlotte (9.3%) Indianapolis (9.2%) Denver (9.1%) Kansas City (8.5%) Tampa (8.5%) Louisville (8.3%) Memphis Charlotte Atlanta Louisville Tampa Indianapolis Denver 9.3% 8.1% 7.9% 7.8% 7.3% 6.9% 6.6% Nashville MSA 6.5% Bachelor’s degree or higher Raleigh (42.0%) Austin (40.5%) Denver (39.9%) Atlanta (35.3%) Kansas City (33.5%) Charlotte (33.4%) Nashville MSA (32.6%) Indianapolis (32.1%) Tampa (27.1%) Louisville (26.5%) Memphis (26.1%) Kansas City 6.4% Raleigh 6.4% Austin 5.2% REGIONAL POLL RESULT Nearly half of minorities said they need more education or training in order to advance their career. 56 57
FIELD OF DEGREE SOURCE: U.S. CENSUS BUREAU, 2012 The Nashville region is well known for its high concentration of higher education institutions, an important economic asset. In some disciplines, particularly the arts and humanities, the region outperforms many other metros for output of talent. In STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math), the Nashville region tends to fall behind our peers. Only two of the 10 metros in this comparison have a smaller share of bachelor’s KEY TAKEAWAY While the Nashville MSA is home to many higher education institutions, we fail to produce the number of graduates with the skills we need for jobs coming to the region, particularly in the STEM fields. degrees in those fields. Atlanta Austin Charlotte Denver Indianapolis Kansas City Louisville Memphis Nashville MSA Raleigh Tampa Science and engineering 33.2% 38.8% 32.1% 37.6% 31.1% 28.9% 30.4% 27.6% 29.4% 41.0% 32.7% Computers, mathematics and statistics 5.6% 6.2% 4.4% 4.9% 3.5% 4.5% 3.8% 2.7% 3.9% 6.8% 4.1% Biological, agricultural and environmental sciences 4.8% 5.4% 4.7% 6.3% 6.9% 5.6% 5.8% 6.0% 6.0% 6.7% 5.2% Physical and related sciences 2.6% 2.9% 2.5% 3.6% 3.1% 2.8% 2.8% 2.4% 3.1% 4.4% 3.6% Psychology 4.5% 4.4% 5.4% 5.3% 4.0% 4.5% 4.4% 4.5% 4.4% 4.4% 4.8% Social sciences 7.3% 8.8% 7.6% 8.2% 6.2% 5.3% 6.8% 5.7% 6.4% 7.5% 7.6% Engineering 8.1% 10.4% 6.9% 8.4% 7.0% 5.6% 6.3% 5.6% 5.0% 10.7% 6.8% Multidisciplinary studies 0.3% 0.8% 0.5% 0.9% 0.3% 0.7% 0.6% 0.6% 0.4% 0.6% 0.6% Science and engineering-related fields 8.0% 7.0% 7.0% 8.1% 11.6% 9.7% 10.4% 9.5% 8.4% 7.8% 9.8% Business 26.5% 19.4% 27.6% 22.5% 22.4% 24.2% 23.3% 25.2% 24.2% 20.5% 23.5% Education 11.6% 9.6% 11.6% 8.8% 14.2% 15.4% 12.3% 15.5% 12.6% 9.9% 14.6% Arts, humanities and other 20.7% 25.1% 21.6% 23.1% 20.7% 21.7% 23.6% 22.1% 25.5% 20.7% 19.5% Literature and languages 3.9% 4.8% 3.7% 4.0% 2.9% 2.8% 4.5% 4.6% 4.5% 3.9% 3.3% Liberal arts and history 3.8% 5.0% 4.9% 4.7% 4.7% 5.3% 6.0% 4.5% 4.6% 4.2% 4.4% Visual and performing arts 3.7% 4.7% 2.9% 4.1% 3.1% 3.9% 2.7% 3.0% 5.2% 2.7% 3.1% Communications 4.4% 5.8% 4.7% 5.1% 3.9% 4.2% 4.7% 4.4% 5.6% 4.2% 3.6% Other 5.0% 4.8% 5.3% 5.2% 6.1% 5.5% 5.8% 5.7% 5.7% 5.8% 5.2% TOTAL 1,243,122 477,058 401,116 708,325 377,189 460,391 233,566 222,813 355,630 324,318 544,121 58
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