Education and Unemployment by U.S. County
1 min readJul 6, 2019
The map below shows U.S. counties into 4 categories based on education attainment (as measured by the percentage of adults 25+ with a bachelor’s degree or higher 2013–2017) and unemployment rate (based on 2018 unemployment) relative to the median for all U.S. counties.
Color intensity represents distance from the median, with the darkest countries having both bachelor’s degree attainment and unemployment levels both more than one standard deviation (SD) from the median, medium colored U.S. counties having one of those two measures more than one SD from the median, and light colored counties being within one SD from the median on both measures.
Data comes from the USDA Economic Research Service.
