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The number of educated adults living in Jersey City has increased 13 percent since 2000.

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The number of educated adults in Jersey City rose by 13 percent since 2000, a bigger increase than in any other big city in the nation, according to Bloomberg.

Adults with bachelor's degrees over the age of 25 numbered 68,538 in 2011, up from 42,676 in 2000, Bloomberg reports in a chart called "Biggest Brain Gains."

Atlanta and Washington, D.C. came in just behind Jersey City, each with an increase of 11 percent, Bloomberg reports. Arlington, Va. and Portland, Ore. round out the top five.

Bloomberg used data from the U.S. Census to rank the 151 cities analyzed. New York, Jersey City's big competitor across the Hudson River, didn't make the top 20.

Don't put too much stock in the numbers, though: the "total population" Bloomberg lists for Jersey City is about 100,000 short.