While we’re basking in the glory of the Puget Sound’s marketing prowess, we can also boast about our collective intellect.
If you equate education with intelligence, then, according to a CNN extrapolation, the smartest city in the United States is Seattle - 52.7 percent of our residents age 25 or older have completed a bachelor’s degree or higher.
The education rankings were released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau. Seattle’s also been ranked as the most literate city in the United States by Central Connecticut State University, beating out Minneapolis, Washington and Atlanta. That rating was based on such things as the number of booksellers, libraries and newspaper circulation - as well as educational attainment.
Seattle has more than its share of residents with advanced degrees: 20.5 percent. Only Washington, D.C., has more.
And that brainpower lets us govern more effectively according to The Center for Digital Government which just named the city of Seattle’s Web site as the best in the nation. The Best of Web is an annual awards program that recognizes the most innovative, user-friendly state and local government portals.
The city’s site is located at www.seattle.gov. In addition, King County’s Web site, www.metrokc.gov, was honored as the third best county Web site in the nation.
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