Sacramento Ranks 30th in America's Smartest Cities

Sacramento ranks 30th in the Business Journal's ranking of America's Smartest Cities.

Which community boasts the highest concentration of brainpower -- and therefore can claim to be America's smartest big city?

The answer is Seattle, according to a new study by Bizjournals.com.
An analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data puts Seattle's No. 1 ranking in perspective:

-- Forty-seven percent of Seattle's adults hold bachelor's degrees, the strongest proportion of college-educated residents in any big city. It's nearly double the U.S. average of 24.4 percent.
-- Seattle is second to Washington, D.C., in the share of people with advanced diplomas. Twenty-one percent of Washington's adults have earned graduate or professional degrees, followed by Seattle at 17 percent. The national average is 8.9 percent.

San Francisco and Austin are the runners-up in the Bizjournals.com study, which ranks the relative brainpower of 53 large communities.

Rounding out the top 10 are Colorado Springs, Minneapolis, Charlotte, San Diego, Washington, Portland, Ore., and Albuquerque. (Click here for profiles of the 10 brainpower leaders.)

Reprint from BizJournals.com