Top 25 Smartest Cities in the U.S.

If you equate education with intelligence, then the smartest city in the United States is Seattle - 52.7 percent of its residents age 25 or older have completed a bachelor's degree or higher.

Seattle's also been ranked as the most literate city in the United States by Central Connecticut State University, beating out Minneapolis, Washington and Atlanta. That rating was based on such things as the number of booksellers, libraries and newspaper circulation - as well as educational attainment.

Many brainy people have flocked to the Seattle area to work in what's called the "knowledge economy." Companies headquartered there and in surrounding towns, including Microsoft, Amazon, Cray, Washington Mutual and Costco, all use heavy doses of information technology. Even another of the area's biggest employers, old-line Boeing, is also a glutton for technological solutions. Source:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/29/real_estate/brainiest_cities/

1.)Seattle WA
2.)San Francisco CA
3.)Raleigh NC
4.)Washington DC
5.)Austin TX
6.)Minneapolis MN
7.)Atlanta GA
8.)Boston MA
9.)San Diego CA
10.)Lexington-Fayette KY
11.)Denver CO
12.)Charlotte NC
13.)Portland OR
14.)St. Paul MN
15.)San Jose CA
16.)Colorado Springs CO
17.)Honolulu HI
18.)Oakland CA
19.)Pittsburgh PA
20.)New York NY
21.)Albuquerque NM
22.)Anchorage AK
23.)Omaha NE
24.)Nashville-Davidson TN
25.)Columbus OH