67.3% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 62.1%
- 2021: 67.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Burra · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Burra
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 8.4 percentage points separates Burra from the national average in school completions, where 67.3% of residents finished Year 12. This highly qualified community sees a much higher proportion of people with university degrees than most similar areas.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Schooling levels are well above the state and national figures, with 67.3% of people completing Year 12. This is much higher than the 58.8% seen across Australia.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Burra, Year 12 is the majority at 71%; Year 10 is next at 17%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher education is common here, as 32.7% of adults hold a bachelor degree or higher. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 27.8%, with postgraduate degrees held by 15.1% of residents.
32.7% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Burra splits fairly evenly between Certificate III / IV (29%) and Bachelor degree (27%), with Postgraduate degree at 17%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of qualification are management and commerce at 17.1%, followed by society and culture at 14.0% and engineering at 13.2%.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of this area, which is a smaller number 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Burra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10694/burra/topic/education