31.4% ▼ -27.5%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.3%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Sunny Corner · Suburb / Locality
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A gap of 28 percentage points separates Sunny Corner from the New South Wales average for Year 12 completion. This area has a much lower rate of high school completion than most similar places, with only 31.4% of residents finishing their secondary education.
Highest year of school completed.
Only 31.4% of people finished Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. Another 31.4% of residents stopped their schooling at Year 10.
31.4% ▼ -27.5%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Sunny Corner splits fairly evenly between Year 12 (39%) and Year 10 (39%), with Year 9 or below at 16%.
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The proportion of adults with a bachelor degree or higher is 16.3%, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 27.8%. Trade qualifications are more common, with 40.8% of people holding a Certificate III or IV.
16.3% ▲ +16.7%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
In Sunny Corner, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 49%, followed by Bachelor degree (27%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (17%).
What people studied.
Qualifications in this area are spread across several fields, with Health being the most common at 14.3%. Engineering and Management and Commerce both account for 12.2% of qualifications.
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There are no schools within 3 km of the area, which is a smaller number of facilities 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).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Sunny Corner [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13707/sunny-corner/topic/education