43.5% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 41.8%
- 2021: 43.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Bective · Suburb / Locality
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 43.5% of adults in Bective have completed Year 12, which is far below the national and state figures. This reflects a community where vocational training and practical skills are more common than higher academic degrees.
Highest year of school completed.
Completing Year 12 is far less common here than in the rest of Australia, where the figure is 58.8%. Instead, nearly 30% of residents finished school at Year 10.
43.5% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
In Bective, the largest group is Year 12 at 50%, followed by Year 10 (34%) and Year 9 or below (11%).
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is less frequent in Bective, with only 17% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is well below the national figure of 26.3%, while Certificate III or IV qualifications are the most common at 43.3%.
17.0% —
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
In Bective, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 53%; Bachelor degree is next at 25%.
What people studied.
Qualifications in the area are spread across several fields, led by management and commerce at 19.2% and agriculture and environment at 14.4%.
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools located within 3 km of the area, which is a common trait for 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).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Bective [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10245/bective/topic/education