49.3% —
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 49.3%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Taloumbi · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Taloumbi
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
A high proportion of university graduates live in Taloumbi, which makes it an outlier compared to many similar areas. While the typical resident is well-qualified, the area has a much lower rate of Year 12 completion than the state and national figures.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Only 49.3% of people here completed Year 12, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the 58.9% seen across New South Wales.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Taloumbi, Year 12 is the majority at 53%; Year 10 is next at 34%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
The area has a strong presence of highly educated adults, with 24.4% holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is much higher than most similar areas, though it remains a little below the national figure of 26.3%.
24.4% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 24.4%
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 Taloumbi, the largest group is Bachelor degree at 41%, followed by Certificate III / IV (30%) and Advanced diploma / diploma (19%).
Field of study
What people studied.
Qualifications in Taloumbi are spread across several fields, with architecture and building, health, and management and commerce each making up 13.7% of the total.
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is one primary school within 3km, which is a government facility with a smaller than usual average size of 213 students.
1
Lower than 57% 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).
213
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
977
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Taloumbi
1 school — 213 students, average ICSEA 977.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Primary 1
| Gulmarrad Public School, Gulmarrad | Government | Primary | 7.5 km | 213 | 977 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Taloumbi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13756/taloumbi/topic/education