Economy
The Changing Geography of America’s Creative Class
Washington, D.C., has the highest share of creative-class workers among large U.S. cities, but Miami’s creative class is growing faster.
This is the third post in a four-part series on the economic performance of America’s cities. Today, we cover the creative class.
The class composed of knowledge workers, techies, and cultural creatives is a key force in the economic growth of U.S. cities. More than 55 million workers are members of America’s creative class, or above 35 percent of the workforce. The creative class is one way of measuring talent or human capital, based on occupation or skill—the other way being educational attainment, which we covered in the previous post in this series. The first post looked at large cities’ population and job growth. (Those posts also include a description of the data sources and methodology used in this series.)