How do you educate more people in cities skylines?

If your industrial or commercial buildings are complaining about a shortage of workers, then it’s either because you don’t have a large enough population, or not enough citizens of the appropriate education level to fill the jobs.

Generic industry buildings (especially of lower levels) tend to employ mostly uneducated workers. So any staff shortages are often simply due to not having enough people in your city. In this case, the solution is simply zoning more residences.

As people move in, they’ll fill the jobs and the shortage should resolve itself over a short period.

You’ll often find that a worker shortage in generic industry zones will coincide with a high demand for residential zoning.

Getting Educated Workers

On the other hand, if your building is complaining that there are “Not Enough Educated Workers!” then you should see if you’re providing adequate facilities.

There are four different education levels in the game:

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Education levelRequired Educational BuildingDLCBuild Cost (₡)UneducatednonenonenoneEducatedElementary schoolnone10,000Community SchoolGreen Cities12,000Well EducatedHigh Schoolnone24,000Institute of Creative ArtsGreen Cities30,000Highly EducatedUniversitynone75,000Modern Technological InstituteGreen Cities90,000FacultyHigh Tech24,000

The workforce of each industrial, commercial, or industrial building can be made up of a combination of the different educational levels.

A mix of different educational levels will be required across the different zones.

However, generic industry buildings (especially at lower levels) will tend to require more uneducated workers, while higher-level office buildings will require more highly educated ones.

So getting workers for the various jobs will mean making sure you have the right educational facilities in place, and with enough capacity.

Do take note that your citizens will need time to go through the education system.

So if, for example, you’ve just placed your city’s first university, you may have to wait a while before it starts supplying you with the educated workers you need.

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The most annoying but also quite interesting thing about all of this is that the player not only can’t do anything about this, besides building that high school and university, but he, you, just have to wait. That is right, you haven’t done anything wrong. You followed the game's design and this abandonment is actually because you followed the game's rules to the letter. These shops, they are the ones which level up too fast, faster than their open jobs can be filled by Cims who can’t gain educated levels at that same speed.

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For example, when generic industry levels up with access to services and educated Cims it requires even more educated Cims of all levels. But if you don’t give it services it will be stuck on lower levels and won’t need all those better educated Cims, creating unemployment. If you are in the process of educating your population, those generic industry buildings will be saying not enough workers. Luckily there is a mechanic and even a mod which allows for Cims to be overeducated for their workplace.

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Here at least there are a few things you can do about it. First of all adding totally new residential zones is a simple way of adding new uneducated workers into your city. But if you need the educated kind instead then helping older residential zones level up with higher wealth levels so educated Cims move in is the way to go. Boosing your district's education with a policy is also a viable solution.

Why are people not getting educated cities skylines?

It also takes time for citizens to go through the education process. They have to graduate from elementary school and go to high school and then go to college. If you are giving the proper access to the industry zones, this may solve itself in time.

How do you solve the education problem in cities skylines?

Solution: Use elementary school as the limiting factor. For instance. If you have one elementary school one high school and 3 universities you'll get plenty of school coverage while still having a low education rate. If you need more educated people, increase the budget temporarily or build another elementary school.

How do you make people smarter in city skylines?

Just adjust the budget of your schools or build only a few schools so you can controll how smart people get. It is a little bit tricky to adjust it right. It's a bit weird mechanic, as education/schools causes happyness.

How do I get more workers in city skylines?

How To Fix Cities Skylines 'Not Enough Workers' Problem.

Amend the education level of your population..

Increase your general population..

Bring your citizens closer to the jobs..