UCLA economist: Detroit City is better educated than Los Angeles.

[iheartthed]

There are some surprises in the data. Both as cities and metro areas, St. Louis and Kansas City are both more educated than New York and Chicago, and Cincinnati, Detroit, Cleveland and Tampa all outperform Los Angeles. The overall pattern is that the coasts, the plains and the Midwest all perform quite well, with the South notably less educated than the rest of the country.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...erica/?hpid=z3

Detroit also doesn't perform that much worse than yuppie magnets like NYC and Chicago, on a strictly central city comparison, according to the chart in the article:

[DetroitPlanner]

Places like NYC and Chicago are magnets for all people not just the highly educated ones. So is Los Angeles, in fact LA is a magnet for people wanting to be movie stars, and you don't need to be educated for that, just a primadonna. Detroit is a magnet for people wanting to work in the design and manufacturing of cars. Most of these folks have degrees in engineering or industrial design.

[Bham1982]

It seems quite obvious that Detroit would have higher educational attainment than LA.

LA is, primarily, a city of immigrants from the developing world. Detroit is, primarily, a city of native-born African Americans.

Native-born residents, even poorer ones, will have higher educational attainment than dirt-poor immigrants from the developing world.

[Hermod]

It seems quite obvious that Detroit would have higher educational attainment than LA.

LA is, primarily, a city of immigrants from the developing world. Detroit is, primarily, a city of native-born African Americans.

Native-born residents, even poorer ones, will have higher educational attainment than dirt-poor immigrants from the developing world.

Agreed. Every one of the bottom cities on the graph has a very large Hispanic component to their population mix.

[canuck]

Agreed. Every one of the bottom cities on the graph has a very large Hispanic component to their population mix.

And that demographic is very diverse. If you look at the cuban-american population in states like Florida, not only are they more highly educated than the latin population at large in the US but they are among the best educated ethnic group in the United States. Even in Cuba under Castro's dictatorship, the people are much more literate than in the US or Canada.

[Richard]

And that demographic is very diverse. If you look at the cuban-american population in states like Florida, not only are they more highly educated than the latin population at large in the US but they are among the best educated ethnic group in the United States. Even in Cuba under Castro's dictatorship, the people are much more literate than in the US or Canada.

I am not sure how they come to their conclusions,in Orlando I can see from the very large hospital university park is putting out some highly educated candidates but as far as the Hispanic population most moved there from Miami and up north ,New York,Chicago,most are not or do not seem highly educated,now if you count the illegals from all over Latin America most are extremely highly educated because they were doctors and lawyers there and at least made enough to be able to jump ship and now cleaning time shares making more money.Quite an interesting underground medical thing going on there.Both Orlando and Tampa have a huge Indian [[non native American) doctor population so that may bump the numbers up a bit.

Of course you cannot get a job or graduate high school unless you are bilingual so one has to question what educated really entails.

Cubans in Tampa? maybe at one time but I still have yet to find many that are highly educated and their influence is not what it was once.For the most part they are good people but the ones I have met and dealt with in business seem to have the thoughts that Americans are just plain stupid anyways.

But the south or Fla for the most part seems to be more service related which does not need a highly educated workforce so I can see Detroit easily surpassing.