America’s 10 Most Literate Cities

By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Jan 12, 1:24PM EST · Published Apr 2, 7:09AM EDT

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[cnxvideo id=”625452″ placement=”ros”]A new study from Central Connecticut State University lists the most literate cities in the U.S. At the top of the list is Washington DC, followed by Seattle.

The study, entitled America’s Most Literate Cities 2016, is the latest in a series which dates back to 2003

In a summary of how the study was done, Dr. John W. Miller, president emeritus of Central Connecticut State University the study’s author, wrote:

Drawing from a variety of available data resources, the America’s Most Literate Cities study ranks the largest cities (population 250,000 and above) in the United States. This study focuses on six key indicators of literacy: number of bookstores, educational attainment, Internet resources, library resources, periodical publishing resources, and newspaper circulation.

Research for the current edition of America’s Most Literate Cities was conducted in collaboration with the Center for Public Policy & Social Research at CCSU.

The top 10:
City/State Rank
Washington D.C. 1
Seattle, WA 2
Minneapolis, MN 3
Atlanta, GA 4
San Francisco, CA 5
Pittsburgh, PA 6
Portland, OR 7
Cincinnati, OH 8
St. Paul, MN 9
Boston, MA 10

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.