Posted on July 3, 2018
Author Michael Gallenberger, WKVI
Starke County residents are steadily becoming more educated, according to Ron Gifford with the Starke County Economic Development Foundation. “We’ve gone from 854 people in the county in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree or higher, and we more than doubled it up to 1,840 in 2016,” he told the Hamlet Town Council last week. “We also increased higher than the national average for people who had some college or an associate’s degree.”
Gifford said the percentage of residents with higher levels of education has consistently been going up, while the percentage of those with just some or no high school has been going down. He explained that from an economic development standpoint, educational attainment can be a deciding factor when it comes to attracting industry to the area.
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