UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls

Economic Indicators

Workforce Without a High School Diploma

Economics - no HS Degree Minn Wisc

  • 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.

Economics - no HS Degree Wisconsin

  • 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.

Economics - no HS Degree Minnesota

  • 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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