Table 2.7. Percentage of persons ages 18–29 enrolled in colleges or universities, by age group, locale, and sex: 2004

Status of Education in Rural America

NCES 2007-040
June 2007

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Table 2.7.

Percentage of persons ages 18–29 enrolled in colleges or universities, by age group, locale, and sex: 2004

Locale and sex	Ages 18–24	Ages 25–29
Locale and sex	Enrolled in any program	Enrolled in undergraduate programs	Enrolled in graduate or professional programs
Total	34.2	10.1	5.2
City	36.6	10.6	6.8
Suburban	36.6	10.3	5.2
Town	31.8	11.2	3.2
Rural	27.1	7.8	2.6
Sex
Male	31.0	8.9	4.6
City	33.5	9.8	6.3
Suburban	33.9	9.2	4.4
Town	28.0	9.6	2.8
Rural	23.1	6.2	2.1
Female	37.6	11.2	5.7
City	39.8	11.5	7.3
Suburban	39.4	11.3	6.0
Town	35.6	12.7	3.6
Rural	31.5	9.5	3.2
NOTE: These data were collected by the American Community Survey (ACS), which asked survey respondents to identify persons who had been living in the household for the past 2 months. ACS did not begin to collect data for group quarters (e.g., students living in dorms on campus) until 2006. Thus, 2004 data for each of the rural, city, suburban, and town locales include independent students living in the locale and dependent students living at home in the locale, but not dependent students in campus dorms in the locale, nor dependent students from the locale who were in campus dorms. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2004, previously unpublished data.