28 December 2019 — 0523 mst
Adult educational attainment in Montana, 1970–2015
Half a century ago, two-fifths of Montana’s adults were high school dropouts. By 2015, only seven of 100 were. That’s progress, although the distribution of that progress is not distributed evenly across the state. As one might expect, the least populated counties have the lowest levels of educational attainment, and there are communities such as Bozeman, Missoula, Whitefish, and Helena, where almost half the adult population holds a BA degree or higher.
Here’s a graph displaying the progress made at the state level over the last five decades. The spreadsheet that you can download contains county level data.
