US cities with the highest bachelor’s-degree share
US city records ranked by the ACS share of adults with a bachelor’s degree or higher.
Scarsdale, United States is first in the current published ranking at 91.15 %; compare its source date and geographic grain before using the result.
- Items compared
- 30
- Countries represented
- 1
- Last checked
- 2026-07-04
Source-backed answers
Compare each answer with its unit and checked date; the complete source ledger is below.
| Original rank | City or place | Source and scope | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scarsdale, United States | 91.15 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 2 | University Park, United States | 90.85 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 3 | West University Place, United States | 90.4 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 4 | Glendale, United States | 90.14 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 5 | Mountain Brook, United States | 88.56 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 6 | Piedmont, United States | 88.41 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 7 | Glencoe, United States | 88.18 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 8 | Los Altos, United States | 88.12 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 9 | Ladue, United States | 88.05 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 10 | Highland Park, United States | 87.91 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 11 | Fair Haven borough, United States | 86.84 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 12 | Winnetka, United States | 86.66 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 13 | Fox Chapel borough, United States | 85.89 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 14 | Orinda, United States | 85.85 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 15 | Clayton, United States | 84.91 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 16 | Los Altos Hills, United States | 84.87 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 17 | Princeton, United States | 84.71 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 18 | Larchmont, United States | 83.99 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 19 | Huntington Woods, United States | 83.84 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 20 | Western Springs, United States | 83.81 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 21 | Hillsborough, United States | 83.8 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 22 | Chatham borough, United States | 83.7 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 23 | Wilmette, United States | 83.61 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 24 | Bellaire, United States | 83.48 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 25 | Cherry Hills Village, United States | 83.43 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 26 | Atherton, United States | 83.14 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 27 | North Hills, United States | 82.67 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 28 | San Marino, United States | 82.64 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 29 | Hoboken, United States | 82.62 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
| 30 | Palo Alto, United States | 82.31 % | 2026-07-04 | Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04 |
What the numbers say
- Scarsdale, United States leads at 91.15 %.
- Palo Alto, United States sits at the other end with 82.31 %.
- The middle of this ranking is 84.91 %, across 30 places that publish the metric.
- The spread between first and last is 8.84 %.
What this measures
Every row is a published g07 bachelors or higher share pct observation measured in %, ranked highest first. The values were observed in 2026. A place appears only when it publishes this exact metric, so an absent place means missing data rather than a low value.
- Compare the displayed value, unit, source date and geographic grain together.
- A city label does not change a regional observation into a city measurement.
- Rows
- 30 places
- Geographic grain
- place
- Observation period
- 2026-07-04
- Last checked
- 2026-07-04
- With an official source link
- 30 of 30
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, September 12). US cities with the highest bachelor’s-degree share [ImmigrationDB compilation; snapshot approved-static-d7ed373c115d60d0; version approved-static-d7ed373c115d60d0]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/reports/us-cities-highest-bachelors-share/ Retrieved 2026-09-12. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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title = {US cities with the highest bachelor’s-degree share},
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date = {2026-09-12},
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note = {Retrieved 2026-09-12. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
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