Yakima and 9 Others make Top 10 Dumbest Cities in Washington. What’s #1?
You ever get so annoyed at someone you call them stupid under your breath? Well, maybe they're just predispositioned due to where they live? That's probably not the case but could answer for a lot of issues being around others you run into on an almost daily basis.
The website Roadsnacks came up with a list of the 10 dumbest towns in Washington state and, wouldn't you know it, not only is Yakima on the list but a few towns in the Yakima Valley are on the list as well. Let's take a look!
10. Centralia
Centralia has about 18,000 residents with an average high school dropout rate of 15%.
9. Yakima (hey, that's us!)
Yakima has a population of around 96,000 with an average high school dropout rate of, get this, 25%. The, what they call, highly educated percentage is 19%.
8. Kelso
Kelso has 12.5k people in town with an average dropout rate of 15%.
7. Quincy
Although Quincy only has 7,630 people, 28% of them are high school dropouts.
6. Shelton
With a population of just over 10,000, 20% are high school dropouts.
5. Othello
Othello sees 8,470 people town but an average high school dropout rate of 31%
4. Toppenish
Toppenish has around 8,800 people with an average adult high school dropout rate of 47%.
3. Union Gap
Our neighboring friends in Union Gap have a whopping 37% high school dropout rate for the only 6,500 people that live there.
2. Sunnyside
Sunnyside is bad. Over 16,000 people but an average high school dropout rate of 50%. That's half of the population.
1. Grandview
Roadsnacks listed Grandview as #1 on this list with over 10,000 people and an average dropout rate of 41% with only 5% being classified as highly educated.
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