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Smart Zips

Martha Ross

It’s not surprising that well-educated people—including astrophysicist George F. Smoot, who won the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics—live next door to UC Berkeley. We looked at U.S. Census data, broken down by zip code, to see how a sampling of East Bay areas stack up in terms of educational attainment. The data report the percentage of residents 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree or higher. By the way, Smoot hails from Berkeley’s 94704 zip code, which ranks fifth on our list. 



 94708  Berkeley Hills  81.6
 94707 Berkeley/North 

80.0   

 94563 Orinda  74.5 
 94618 Oakland/Rockridge  74.1 
 94704 Downtown Berkeley  68.9 
 94556 Moraga  67.4 
94611  Piedmont  66.8 
 94549 Lafayette  66.6 
 94506 Danville/Blackhawk  65.1 
 94507 Alamo  63.6 
 94598 Walnut Creek/Northgate  60.3 
 94526 Danville/Central  58.1 
 94596 Walnut Creek/Southeast  54.1 
 94583 San Ramon  52.4 
94588  Pleasanton/North  49.3 
 94595 Walnut Creek/West  48.9 
 94517 Clayton  47.6 
 94566 Pleasanton/South  45.5 
 94523 Pleasant Hill  42.7 
 94602 Oakland/Area  41.7 
 94609 Oakland/MacArthur  36.6 
 94586 Sunol  36 
 94568 Dublin  32.7 
94518 Concord/Central  32.3 
94521  Concord/East  31.8 
94550  Livermore   31.8
   U.S. Average

15.5



This article appears in the January 2007 issue of Diablo Magazine

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