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 slightly lower than 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 been at or slightly below 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 in the proportion of the population with a 4-year degree resumed in 2019 after a six-year period of flat or slightly negative percentual growth.

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