64.9% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 60.6%
- 2021: 64.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Back Forest · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Back Forest
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A strong trend toward higher learning defines Back Forest, where a third of adults now hold a bachelor degree or higher. This high level of achievement is seen across the board, with residents far more likely to have finished high school than the national average.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion is well above the national figure at 64.9%, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is 6.1 percentage points higher than the Australian average.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Back Forest, Year 12 is the majority at 69%; Year 10 is next at 26%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 33.3% of the population, a figure well above both New South Wales and the national average. Roughly 27.9% of residents hold a bachelor degree, while 9.8% have a postgraduate qualification.
33.3% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.8%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Back Forest splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (36%) and Certificate III / IV (32%), with Postgraduate degree at 13%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are spread across several fields, with health being the most common at 19.7%. Engineering, education, management, and society and culture each account for 16.4% of qualifications.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, which is smaller than about 59% of similar places.
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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 Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10130/back-forest/topic/education