Top 10 Smartest Cities in the United States
December 16th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under
If you are looking to live in an area where a good percentage of the people around you are intelligent and college educated, we have the list for you.
Top 10 Smartest Cities in the United States:
- Boulder, Colorado – 52.9 % with a bachelors degree
- Bethesda, Maryland – 49.8%
- Ann Arbor, Michigan 47.9 %
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 43.4%
- San Francisco, California 43%
- Durham, North, Carolina 40.2%
- Fort Collins - Loveland, Colorado 40.1%
- Washington D.C. 39.4%
- Bridgeport, Stanford, and Norwalk, Connecticut 39.2%
- San Jose, California 39.2 %
These are also some of the most expensive cities in the country to live in. Interesting.



Comment by Sudeendra on 16 December 2006:
All are beautiful places. No wonder smart people are attracted to them. Are they all university towns ?
Comment by Tom on 16 December 2006:
I don’t think of the Stamford and Bethesda areas as univesity towns.
Comment by Dhij on 13 March 2008:
I wouldn’t use the word smartest to describe towns ranked by education statistics. I think highest educated would be better. We all know that degrees/diplomas don’t necessarily reflect intelligence.
Comment by Portland Real Estate on 31 March 2009:
Where are the metrics for this one? A college degree does not necessarily mean that you are smart.
Comment by Dan on 13 April 2009:
This is a chart of the top 10 most educated cities in the country, not the top 10 with the smartest people. They may be the smartest but the level of education is not a good indicator of that. I know some educated idiots and some very smart people who are not highly educated.