35.0% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 35.0%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Neilrex · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Neilrex
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 24 percentage points separates Neilrex from the rest of the country in school completion, as only 35% of residents finished Year 12. While high school completion is far below the national figure, nearly one in five adults holds a bachelor degree or higher.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 35% of people completed Year 12, which is far below the New South Wales and Australian figures. Roughly 31.7% of residents left school after Year 10, and 16.7% finished Year 9 or below.
Highest year of school
View on map →Neilrex splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (39%) and Year 10 (35%), with Year 9 or below at 19%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
About 19.4% of adults have a bachelor degree or higher, which is higher than most similar areas despite being well below the state average. The most common qualifications are Certificate III or IV, held by 26.5% of residents.
19.4% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.4%
- 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 →Neilrex splits fairly evenly between Certificate III / IV (31%) and Bachelor degree (28%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 28%.
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in Neilrex are spread across several fields, with Engineering and Architecture and building both accounting for 17.6% of degrees. Health and Creative arts follow at 11.8% each.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools located within 3 km of the area, a count that is smaller than about 59% of similar areas.
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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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Neilrex [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12928/neilrex/topic/education