18.2% —
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Back Creek · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Back Creek
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of nearly 10 percentage points separates Back Creek from the New South Wales average for higher education. While more adults here hold degrees than in many similar areas, the community remains well below the state and national figures for university qualifications.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
The most common highest year of school is Year 12 at 40%, ahead of Year 9 or below (40%).
Highest year of school
View on map →Back Creek splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (40%) and Year 9 or below (40%), with Year 10 at 20%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Around 18.2% of adults have a bachelor degree or higher, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the New South Wales figure of 27.8%.
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Back Creek, Bachelor degree is the majority at 100%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Engineering & related at 27%, ahead of Natural & physical sciences (0%).
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, making it smaller than about 59% of similar places.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools serving the area — within 3 km of small areas, or inside larger ones. A measure of access (catchments overlap, so don't add it across areas).
Sources
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Back Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10126/back-creek/topic/education