45.5% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 43.8%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Bourbah · Suburb / Locality
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 13 percentage points exists between Bourbah and the national figure for Year 12 completions. Only 45.5% of residents finished their final year of school, while no adults in the area hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
Highest year of school completed.
About 45.5% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.9%. This is around the middle for similar areas, though 15.2% of residents stopped at Year 10.
45.5% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
In Bourbah, Year 12 is the majority at 75%; Year 10 is next at 25%.
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
No adults in Bourbah have a bachelor degree or higher. This is far below the 26.3% national figure and places the area among the lowest for qualifications at this level.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
In Bourbah, Certificate III / IV is the majority at 100%.
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Education at 16%, ahead of Natural & physical sciences (0%).
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, a situation that is more common than in about 59% of similar areas.
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 Bourbah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10519/bourbah/topic/education