Workforce Without a High School Diploma

• All of the St. Croix River Valley counties have lower proportions of their 2019 workforce without a high school diploma than their respective state averages.
• Relative to the other counties in this region, Polk and Burnett have substantially higher proportions of their workforce without a high school degree.

• The proportion of the Wisconsin workforce that has less than a high school education has fallen by 1%, from 6.2% to 5.2%, over the 2010 to 2019 period.
• Burnett County has moved from having a higher than state average proportion of its workforce without a high school diploma (7.6% in 2010) to below the state average (4.9% in 2019).
• Pierce and St. Croix counties have consistently had substantially lower proportions of their workforces without a high school degree.

• Minnesota has seen very little change in the percent of its workforce without a high school diploma; from 5.0% in 2010 to 4.8% in 2019.
• Chisago County has seen a substantial decline in the proportion of its workforce without a high school degree.
• While still well below the state average, Washington County has seen a slight increase in the proportion of its workforce without a high school diploma; from 2.3% in 2010 to 2.6% in 2019.

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