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COMMUNITY TYPE

Campus and Careers

Characteristics

Home to universities and recent college graduates
Young and educated
More secular than the rest of America
Reliable Democratic voting counties

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Community Type Demographics

Ethnicity

Presidential Election Results

2004

55%
Kerry

44%
Bush

2008

58%
Obama

41%
McCain

Representative Communities

Community Type Comparison

Education

Percent Employed in Education

25%
College and Careers

20%
All Counties

Percent With a Four-year College Degree

16%
College and Careers

11%
All Counties

Around the Nation

For Construction Industry, Economic Recovery Is a Slow Build

Before the economic downturn, new construction made up about 50 percent of business for a small roofing company in Andover, Mass. Since 2008, that share has fallen to 20 percent.

Akron's Goodyear Workers Have Four Years of Relative Security

Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers in Akron, Ohio, a Campus and Careers community, and at six other plants around the country are coming to work Monday under a new contract.

Obama engages on healthcare with high approval, policy doubts

Less than eight months into Barack Obama’s presidency, it is far too soon to contemplate his chances at reelection. But at this early date, there seems to be one noticeable trait: dissonance between voters’ feelings about the president and feelings about his policies – or at least his party.

We ...

Akron, Summit County Designated as Foreign Investment Zone

The Department of Homeland Security has designated Summit County and Akron as a "Regional Center" for foreign investors, which makes it easier for overseas entrepreneurs to develop businesses here. Akron represents Patchwork Nation's Campus and Careers community type.

Road trip: A garden grows, alongside civic spirit, in an Ohio town

Ada, Ohio – This is late spring in the Middle West, the weather glorious, the sun still bright at dinnertime, the long winter now nothing but a memory.

At the edge of a driveway, a father and son shoot baskets. In another front yard, a husband and wife grill meat on ...