Table B-42.  FY 2008 Non-Prior Service (NPS) Active Duty Enlisted Accessions by Education, Component, and Urbanicity
		No Credentials		Alternate Credentials		High School		Some College			TOTAL
	URBANICITY	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%		#	%
	ARMY
	Urban	90	13.02%	1,819	11.30%	4,403	10.62%	895	16.27%		7,207	11.30%
	Second City	130	18.81%	3,201	19.89%	7,950	19.17%	1,139	20.71%		12,420	19.48%
	Suburban	154	22.29%	3,192	19.83%	8,314	20.05%	1,340	24.36%		13,000	20.39%
	Town	57	8.25%	1,488	9.24%	3,839	9.26%	405	7.36%		5,789	9.08%
	Town/Rural	182	26.34%	4,705	29.23%	12,389	29.87%	1,399	25.43%		18,675	29.29%
	Rural	77	11.14%	1,672	10.39%	4,525	10.91%	317	5.76%		6,591	10.34%
	Unknown	1	0.14%	20	0.12%	54	0.13%	6	0.11%		81	0.13%
	TOTAL	691	100.00%	16,097	100.00%	41,474	100.00%	5,501	100.00%		63,763	100.00%
	NAVY
	Urban	107	22.57%	207	12.77%	4,154	13.08%	425	19.53%		4,893	13.58%
	Second City	73	15.40%	308	19.00%	5,783	18.20%	419	19.26%		6,583	18.27%
	Suburban	122	25.74%	369	22.76%	7,131	22.45%	565	25.97%		8,187	22.72%
	Town	32	6.75%	118	7.28%	2,623	8.26%	118	5.42%		2,891	8.02%
	Town/Rural	107	22.57%	474	29.24%	9,049	28.48%	524	24.08%		10,154	28.17%
	Rural	31	6.54%	142	8.76%	2,978	9.37%	121	5.56%		3,272	9.08%
	Unknown	2	0.42%	3	0.19%	52	0.16%	4	0.18%		61	0.17%
	TOTAL	474	100.00%	1,621	100.00%	31,770	100.00%	2,176	100.00%		36,041	100.00%
	MARINE CORPS
	Urban	9	17.65%	201	12.09%	3,994	11.73%	141	16.23%		4,345	11.86%
	Second City	11	21.57%	272	16.37%	6,021	17.68%	175	20.14%		6,479	17.69%
	Suburban	13	25.49%	361	21.72%	7,165	21.04%	205	23.59%		7,744	21.14%
	Town	0	0.00%	138	8.30%	3,042	8.93%	60	6.90%		3,240	8.85%
	Town/Rural	14	27.45%	503	30.26%	10,198	29.95%	219	25.20%		10,934	29.85%
	Rural	4	7.84%	186	11.19%	3,566	10.47%	67	7.71%		3,823	10.44%
	Unknown	0	0.00%	1	0.06%	61	0.18%	2	0.23%		64	0.17%
	TOTAL	51	100.00%	1,662	100.00%	34,047	100.00%	869	100.00%		36,629	100.00%
	AIR FORCE
	Urban	11	17.19%	21	8.82%	2,047	8.00%	183	10.26%		2,262	8.17%
	Second City	10	15.63%	32	13.45%	4,837	18.90%	338	18.96%		5,217	18.85%
	Suburban	13	20.31%	41	17.23%	5,384	21.04%	425	23.84%		5,863	21.19%
	Town	5	7.81%	30	12.61%	2,448	9.57%	143	8.02%		2,626	9.49%
	Town/Rural	17	26.56%	74	31.09%	8,043	31.43%	541	30.34%		8,675	31.35%
	Rural	8	12.50%	39	16.39%	2,805	10.96%	150	8.41%		3,002	10.85%
	Unknown	0	0.00%	1	0.42%	23	0.09%	3	0.17%		27	0.10%
	TOTAL	64	100.00%	238	100.00%	25,587	100.00%	1,783	100.00%		27,672	100.00%
	TOTAL DoD
	Urban	217	16.95%	2,248	11.46%	14,598	10.99%	1,644	15.92%		18,707	11.40%
	Second City	224	17.50%	3,813	19.44%	24,591	18.51%	2,071	20.05%		30,699	18.71%
	Suburban	302	23.59%	3,963	20.20%	27,994	21.07%	2,535	24.54%		34,794	21.20%
	Town	94	7.34%	1,774	9.04%	11,952	8.99%	726	7.03%		14,546	8.86%
	Town/Rural	320	25.00%	5,756	29.34%	39,679	29.86%	2,683	25.98%		48,438	29.52%
	Rural	120	9.38%	2,039	10.39%	13,874	10.44%	655	6.34%		16,688	10.17%
	Unknown	3	0.23%	25	0.13%	190	0.14%	15	0.15%		233	0.14%
	TOTAL	1,280	100.00%	19,618	100.00%	132,878	100.00%	10,329	100.00%		164,105	100.00%
	1. Information applies to the home community of record reported by individual NPS and PS recruits. Socioeconomic classifications
	provided by Claritas, with matching done by zip code.
	Rows and columns may not add to totals due to rounding.
	Data provided for only those individuals reporting a U.S. home of record. The summary report defines urbanicity categories used.