Four-Year College Degree or More

• Only Washington and St. Croix Counties have higher proportions of those 25 and over with at least a 4-year college degree than their respective state averages.
• Chisago, Burnett and Polk Counties have substantially lower proportions of their populations with at least a bachelor’s degree than their state averages
• The proportion of Pierce County’s population with a 4-year degree is about the same as the average for Wisconsin as a whole.

• The proportion of the St. Croix population 25 and over with at least a bachelor’s degree has consistently exceed the state average since 2009.
• Pierce County has essentially matched the state average for the percentage of residents 25 and older with at least a bachelor’s degree since 2009.
• Polk and Burnett Counties have consistently had lower proportions of their populations with 4-year degrees than the state average since 2009.
• The proportion of the population with a 4-year degree or more has been trending upward over time in all four St. Croix River Valley Counties and the state of Wisconsin.

• Washington County has consistently exceeded the state of Minnesota average with respect to the percentage of its residents with at least a bachelor’s degree since 2009.
• Chisago County has consistently had a lower proportion of its residents 25 and older with a 4-year degree than the state average.
• While the percentage of the population with a 4-year college has been trending upward over time for Washington County and the state of Minnesota, for Chisago County increases stopped in about 2013 and the proportion has been basically flat since then.

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