46.0% ▲ +20.1%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.3%
- 2016: 37.2%
- 2021: 46.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Dundee · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Dundee
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A shift in learning patterns has seen more residents in Dundee hold higher degrees since 2011. While fewer people finished high school compared to the national figure, nearly one in five adults now hold a bachelor degree or higher.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 46% of residents finished Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales and Australian figures of around 59%. About a third of people stopped their schooling at Year 10.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Dundee, the largest group is Year 12 at 48%, followed by Year 10 (35%) and Year 11 (8%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Higher qualifications are more common here than in most similar areas, with 19.4% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. However, this is still well below the national figure of 26.3%.
19.4% ▲ +4.8%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Dundee, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 46%, followed by Bachelor degree (26%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (18%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications are split evenly between engineering, health, and society and culture, each at 14.7%, followed closely by agriculture and environment at 13.3%.
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.
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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 Dundee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11317/dundee/topic/education