Website: Charleston Among Top 10 Midsized Metros for Millennials

CommercialCafe, a commercial real estate internet listing service, this week published an article that set out to answer, “Which U.S. Metros Are the Top Millennial Magnets?.” The website determined that Charleston is the 8th best midsized metro area for millennials.

To come up with the ranking, the company looked into seven select indexes – including millennial demographics, median earnings, educational attainment, health insurance coverage, cost of living (regional price parity), and unemployment rate.

Here are some of the key highlights:

• At 22.5%, Charleston metro had the largest percentage of millennials within its total population among midsized metros analyzed with 177,764 individuals in this age group calling the port city home
• 42% of millennials in Charleston hold a bachelor’s degree or higher making the metro rank 6th for this indicator among the top 10
• The metro also came in 5th among the top 10 for its unemployment rate of 2.5%
• Overall, Des Moines tops the list, followed by Madison and Ogden–Clearfield

To see the full report, click here.

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