CALIFORNIA BUSINESS MINUTE
Smartest Cities
04-28-10
Hi, I am Tim Johnson and welcome to the California Business Minute
The Daily Beast, the on-line magazine is at it again, this time with the rankings
of the Smartest Cities in America.
The methodology used involved ranking only metropolitan areas (the cities and their
suburbs) of one million people or more, using Census data. The data was then organized
on a per-capita basis, Then the criteria was divided into two halves: Half for
education, and half for intellectual environment. The education half encompassed
how many residents had bachelor’s degrees and graduate degrees. The intellectual
environmental half had three subparts. First, nonfiction book sales (25 percent),
as tracked by Nielsen BookScan; second, the ratio of institutions of higher education,
as defined by the federal government—different than just measuring college degrees
and third, linked intelligence and political engagement as measured by the percentage
of eligible voters who cast ballots in the last presidential election Hence the Top
Ten Smartest:
1. Raleigh-Durham, NC
2. San Francisco –Oakland-San Jose
3. Boston, MA
4. Minneapolis, MN
5. Denver, CO
6. Hartford-New Haven, CT
7. Seattle-Tacoma , WA
8. Washington DC
9. Portland, OR
10. Baltimore, MD
The key issue is that if not measured in Millions, Palo Alto with Stanford and Pasadena
with Caltech probably would be in the mix. Other California cities ranked were:
San Diego #20 Los Angeles #27; Sacramento# 35 and Fresno# 55.
I am Tim Johnson and this has been the California Business Minute.
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