43.9% ▼ -12.3%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.0%
- 2016: 50.5%
- 2021: 43.9%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Majors Creek · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Majors Creek
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer than half of the people in Majors Creek finished Year 12, at 43.9%. This is far below the New South Wales and national figures of around 59%. While university degrees are more common here than in many similar areas, the community generally has lower levels of formal schooling.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 43.9% of residents completed Year 12, which is 15 percentage points lower than the state and national averages. About 28.9% of people finished Year 10 as their highest level of schooling.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Majors Creek, the largest group is Year 12 at 50%, followed by Year 10 (33%) and Year 9 or below (11%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
A bachelor degree or higher is held by 20.3% of adults, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this is still well below the New South Wales figure of 27.8%.
20.3% ▲ +10.8%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Majors Creek, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 40%, followed by Bachelor degree (29%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (11%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common qualifications are in architecture and building (10.9%), followed by engineering and management and commerce at 10.1% each.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, which is a common trait for about 59% of similar locations.
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).
Sources
More for Majors Creek
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Majors Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12461/majors-creek/topic/education