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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

Community Type Demographics

Ethnicity

Presidential Election Results

2004
  • 55%
  • Kerry in 2004
  • Kerry
  • 44%
  • Bush in 2004
  • Bush
2008
  • 58%
  • Obama in 2008
  • Obama
  • 41%
  • McCain in 2008
  • McCain

Representative Communities

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Education

Percent Employed in Education
  • 25%
  • College and Careers
  • College and Careers
  • 20%
  • College Graduates
  • All Counties
Percent With a Four-year College Degree
  • 16%
  • High School Graduates
  • College and Careers
  • 11%
  • College Graduates
  • 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

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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 ...

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