Workforce Without a High School Diploma

• The proportion of the Wisconsin workforce that has less than a high school education has fallen by just under 2%, from 6.2% to 4.6%, over the 2010 to 2022 period.
• Burnett County 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), but since 2021 has surpassed the state average again (5.1% as of 2022).
• Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix counties have consistently had lower proportions of their workforces without a high school degree relative to the Wisconsin average.

• Minnesota has seen very little change in the percent of its workforce without a high school diploma; from 5.0% in 2010 to 4.5% in 2022.
• Until 2020, Chisago County observed a substantial decline in the proportion of its workforce without a high school degree, but since then the proportion has trended upwards.
• While still well below the state average, Washington County has seen an increase in the proportion of its workforce without a high school diploma; from 2.3% in 2010 to 2.9% in 2022. 

• Besides Burnett County, all other St. Croix River Valley counties have lower proportions of their 2022 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.
   

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