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United States per capita personal income by county (2021) vs. level of education.
Data source for United States per capita personal income by county: https://www.bea.gov/data/income-saving/personal-income-county-metro-and-other-areas
Data source for education level: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/county-level-data-sets/county-level-data-sets-download-data/
bea.gov is the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
usda.gov is the U.S. Department of Agriculture
They are the most recent data available at the moment. Per capita personal income by county data was released in November 2022. Next release should be in Q4 2023.
I cleaned both tables and I merged them with BigQuery
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