43.3% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 42.9%
- 2021: 43.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Pucawan · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Pucawan
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Only 10.8% of adults in Pucawan hold a bachelor degree or higher, which is far below the national figure. This reflects a place where many residents have left school without completing Year 12, and university qualifications are much less common than in other parts of New South Wales.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Far fewer people in Pucawan have finished Year 12 compared to the state and national averages, with only 43.3% completing their final year. About 30% of residents finished Year 10, while 13.3% left school in Year 9 or earlier.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Pucawan, the largest group is Year 12 at 50%, followed by Year 10 (35%) and Year 9 or below (15%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a university degree is far below the New South Wales average of 27.8%. For those with qualifications, the split is even between bachelor degrees and Certificate III or IV, both at 16%.
10.8% —
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Pucawan splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (50%) and Certificate III / IV (50%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications held by residents are spread across a few fields, with society and culture and food, hospitality and personal services both accounting for 16% of degrees or certificates.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools located within 3 km of the area, which is a common pattern for 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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Pucawan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13280/pucawan/topic/education